Alexander continued their recent strong play with a thrilling 2-1 victory in Kendall Friday night under the lights. The game was a 1st round game of the Kendall tournament and Alexander will face off against York in the finals Saturday at 7pm.
Alexander didn't take long to get on the board as Senior Rachel Pettys blasted on home 10 minutes into the game off a pass from Anna Dominick. Alexander came out strong and controlled play in the beginning of the 1st half. Kendall started to settle down after the goal and got Sophmore Kaila Browe involved in their offense and forced keeper Hannah Wilson to make a leaping stop that went off the crossbar to keep the score 1-0. Browe was in just her 2nd game of the season after being out with an injury.
The 2nd half saw some back and forth action with Kendall controlling the possession but failing to solve Alexander's defense. 8th grade Abby Shilvock was assigned to mark Browe for the majority of the game and did a great job limiting her chances with the ball.
With under 20 minutes left in the game Kendall got a corner kick and sent it into the middle. Alexander failed on several attempts to clear it and the ball sat 8 yards off the line when Browe stormed through and blasted it into the net to knot the game at 1.
The game appeared headed for overtime as neither team could finish off a chance at their 2nd goal. With 90 seconds left Sophmore Autumn Atkinson played a ball to an overlapping Junior Leah Johnson who got the cross in front of the net on her 2nd attempt at it where Pettys was waiting to send the ball into the back of the net with 1:17 left on the clock.
Alexander managed to kill the time off from there and pick up the win. It was a well played game by both sides.
Kendall will play Albion in the consolation game at 5pm and Alexander will play York in the championship at 7pm. Alexander's JV team will play York's JV team in the finals of the JV tournament at 3pm after Alexander knocked off Kendall 4-1 and York knocked off Albion 3-1.
