On Friday, Dec. 8, the JV girls’ soccer team opened their season with a scrimmage versus Anderson at Anderson’s Calhoun Field.
The Lady Knights found themselves down within the first 15 seconds of the game due to a cross that was tapped over sophomore keeper Maggie Gravette’s hands. After a failed cross that hit the post and went in, the Knights found themselves down 2-0 going into halftime.
For returning player sophomore Penelope Johnson, the halftime talk was a time for the new coach, Catherine O’Neal, to keep the positivity going into the second half.
“She was very positive about how we can still get back from being two down,” Johnson said. “She mostly let us talk about our thoughts too.”
The Knights didn’t concede in the second half until the last 15 seconds of the game when a Trojan midfielder played a through ball to their forward who took a touch around Gravette was buried it in the back of the net.
Even though the Knights lost, 3-0, freshman Isabel Perez said that the ga...