Knights open season with shutout win
A Greenfield School girls soccer team that enters the 2023 season with aspirations of contending for an NCISAA 2-A state championship set exactly the tone it wanted to open the season Thursday night, dispatching visiting Fayetteville Academy 5-0 at Forbes Field.
The 2-A Knights of the NCISAA 2-A/3-A Coastal Plain Independents Conference piled up a 4-0 lead at halftime before adding an insurance marker in the second half against the 2-A Eagles of the 2-A/3-A Coastal Rivers Conference.
Yazi Bulluck notched a goal two assists, Avery Williams scored twice and added an assist and Darcy Dean added a goal and an assist for the Knights.
“We were all very excited and eager to get this 2022-2023 campaign started,” emailed Greenfield head coach Randol Mendoza. “The memory of a 1-A state championship loss is still fresh in our minds as we welcomed an NCISAA 2-A quarfterfinalist at Forbes Field. We seemed to pick up right where we left off with four goals in the first 30 minutes of the game. Our players arrived physically prepared and highly motivated as evidenced by the result of the first game of the season.”
Seventh grader Sydney Coolbaugh, the younger sister of Landyn Coolbaugh, a star for Greenfield’s boys team, scored the first goal of her varsity career in the game’s 60th minute.
“The Coolbaugh family comes from a goal-scoring pedigree,” Mendoza noted.
Greenfield outshot Fayetteville Academy 14-3, and goalkeeper Jeallen Holland made three saves for the clean sheet.
The Knights will head up the road Friday to visit local rival Wilson Christian, with kickoff set for 5:30 p.m.
A Greenfield School girls soccer team that enters the 2023 season with aspirations of contending for an NCISAA 2-A state championship set exactly the tone it wanted to open the season Thursday night, dispatching visiting Fayetteville Academy 5-0 at Forbes Field.
The 2-A Knights of the NCISAA 2-A/3-A Coastal Plain Independents Conference piled up a 4-0 lead at halftime before adding an insurance marker in the second half against the 2-A Eagles of the 2-A/3-A Coastal Rivers Conference.
Yazi Bulluck notched a goal two assists, Avery Williams scored twice and added an assist and Darcy Dean added a goal and an assist for the Knights.
“We were all very excited and eager to get this 2022-2023 campaign started,” emailed Greenfield head coach Randol Mendoza. “The memory of a 1-A state championship loss is still fresh in our minds as we welcomed an NCISAA 2-A quarfterfinalist at Forbes Field. We seemed to pick up right where we left off with four goals in the first 30 minutes of the game. Our players arrived physically prepared and highly motivated as evidenced by the result of the first game of the season.”
Seventh grader Sydney Coolbaugh, the younger sister of Landyn Coolbaugh, a star for Greenfield’s boys team, scored the first goal of her varsity career in the game’s 60th minute.
“The Coolbaugh family comes from a goal-scoring pedigree,” Mendoza noted.
Greenfield outshot Fayetteville Academy 14-3, and goalkeeper Jeallen Holland made three saves for the clean sheet.
The Knights will head up the road Friday to visit local rival Wilson Christian, with kickoff set for 5:30 p.m.
