COMMERCE CITY – For the primary time in program historical past, the Colorado Springs Christian Faculty Lions are ladies soccer champions.
With a 3-1 victory over Fountain Valley Tuesday afternoon, Could 23, at Dick’s Sporting Items Park, the Lions stand atop the mountain of 2A groups of their first ever championship look.
Down 1-0 on the half, CSCS used three second half objectives to run away with the title. Regardless of the deficit, head coach Jason Rollins knew his ladies had a comeback in them.
“We simply wanted to play our recreation, I believe the second bought to us slightly bit,” Rollins said. “We knew 40 minutes was plenty of time, it’s exhausting to carry a 1-0 lead, we simply needed to break the ice. It was nice we scored three minutes in, that actually set the tone for the second half.”
Being down and shedding video games was nothing new for the Lions in the course of the 2023 season, as they got here into the title recreation with 5 losses. Nevertheless, all 5 of these losses got here towards groups classifications above them, together with losses to a workforce within the 3A last (Manitou Springs) and 4A last (Lutheran).
“I constructed that schedule deliberately for us to be battle examined,” Rollins continued. “After we’re enjoying towards a very good workforce, it exposes our weaknesses, and that allowed us to proceed to develop every recreation in the course of the season. You wish to peak on the proper time, and I felt like we had been battle examined and able to take this recreation on.”
The primary half was largely a defensive battle, as neither workforce bought an ideal look on aim for many of the body. That was till the ultimate minute of play when Fountain Valley’s Briityn Lybecker corralled an extended go from downfield and finessed it previous the CSCS keeper for the icebreaking aim with 28 seconds till halftime. It was her team-leading thirtieth of the marketing campaign. After the primary 40 minutes of play, the Danes led 1-0.
The Lions wasted little time tying the sport within the second half, as within the forty third minute, Cristina Huerta gathered the ball within the field and dribbled round two defenders, tucking the ball away within the left nook to knot the sport at 1-1. It was her sixteenth of the season.
About halfway via the half, CSCS took over the lead as Wilna Colopy discovered Ella Salsbery within the field, and she or he tucked a shot into the underside proper nook for her team-leading twenty first aim. The Lions added onto the lead 4 minutes later as Colopy bended a shot across the keeper and into the highest proper nook for her fifteenth aim, giving CSCS a two-goal benefit with 16 minutes to play.
With 12 minutes to play, the Danes had a golden alternative as Lybecker had a free kick simply exterior the field. With a ball completely on web, it appeared to cross the aim line, however the ref signaled offsides and the rating remained 3-1. From there, CSCS performed lockdown protection and held on for the two-goal championship win.
For the Lions, this marks back-to-back championships in two totally different sports activities, as CSCS gained the 3A ladies basketball title again in March. Rollins, being the AD for the Lions athletic applications, was round for that run as properly.
“It’s nice (to have gained each),” Rollins exclaimed. “At any time when you will get thus far it’s fairly cool, however to win all of it and to do it with each applications, it’s a extremely particular factor.”
Fountain Valley completed the season with a 14-3 mark, in addition to their first ever look in a ladies soccer championship recreation.
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