by Scott Sacry
The boys and girls soccer teams from Hamilton and Stevensville met in Stevensville on Saturday, Sept. 17th in an all valley match-up. Both games were evenly matched with both games ending in a tie, the boys 2-2 and the girls 1-1. The boys played first and Hamilton built a 2-1 lead, with goals by Braeden Stevens and Alain Garcia. Stevensville’s first goal came from Cole Olson. Then on the final play of the game with seconds left in stoppage time, Stevensville’s Apollo Doehl assisted Cole Olson for the equalizing goal, ending the hard fought game in a 2-2 tie.
In the girls game, Stevensville struck first as Kelsen Zahn put in a rebound early in the second half. Hamilton responded soon after when Simona Rizzon found the back of the net to tie the game 1-1, and neither team was able to get the go-ahead goal.
Hamilton played Frenchtown on Thursday, Sept. 15th and the girls won, 10-0, and the boys won, 3-2. The Hamilton boys got goals from Zachary Olbricht, Alain Garcia, and James Truax.
Stevensville played at East Helena on Tuesday, Sept. 13th and the girls won, 4-0, and the boys won, 9-0.
The Corvallis girls soccer teams played at Missoula Loyola on Thursday, Sept. 15th and won, 2-0, with goals from Mia Schreiber and Avery Reynoso. On Saturday, Sept. 17th the boys and girls hosted East Helena and the boys won, 3-0, and the girls won, 9-0.
The Corvallis and Hamilton soccer teams will play each other on Tuesday, Sept. 20th in Corvallis and Thursday, Sept 22nd in Hamilton.