Mountain View’s Ali Showalter and Montrose’s Kerri Russell fight for control over the ball in the Wednesday night game. A 1-0 win by Montrose ended the Lady Eagles 43-game win streak. PHOTO BY HEIDI ZENEFSKI
On a shot from 40 yards out, Montrose’s Kourtney Snigar scored the only goal in the game that snapped the Lady Eagles 43-game unbeaten streak in a Lackawanna League Division III game on Wednesday. The win came the day after the Meteor boys claimed a win over Mountain View.
The Mountain View girls came with a 7-0 record in the current season. The Lady Meteors at 4-2 suffered losses to Lakeland and Forest City earlier in the season.
Snigar’s unassisted goal came at 24:41, unassisted.
Team manager Maddy Pasteka said, “It was an amazing shot. She hit it from so far out and it just arched perfectly over everyone and their goalie’s head.”
Snigar who had been sidelined by an injury for several games said, “We played well and worked well as a team. It felt great. It was my first goal of the season.”
On the defensive side of the game, Montrose goalie Anna Churco shined against the aggressive shooting from the Lady Eagles. Churco was perfect with 13 saves.
Coach John Cherundolo said, “Anna Churco is unbelievable. That’s why she was last year’s All-Regional goalie. She had some amazing saves.”
Offensively, the Lady Meteors only had three shots against Mt. View goalie, Hannah Phillips, who had two saves.
The one shot by Snigar was enough to earn the victory for the Lady Meteors who were the last league team to beat Mountain View 43 games ago.
Montrose senior Hannah Dieck said, “I’m so proud. It’s unbelievable. This is my best high school career game ever. We haven’t beaten them (Mt. View) in the four years I have been playing.”
“Holy mackerel!” said Cherundolo, “The girls played a great game; they played their hearts out.”
In other girls’ soccer play last week:
Elk Lake fell to Dunmore, 5-0. Warrior goalie Lydia Hunsinger had 14 saves.
At Forest City, Madison McGraw and Mackenzie Hartman each scored two goals to pace the Lady Foresters in a 7-1 win over Carbondale Area.
Kaitlyn Zembrzycki and Lauren Hall also scored for Forest City. Goalie Morgan Gaspar had two saves.
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