Seven score in JC win

Having gone eight games without a victory and with just one goal in their last six, the Patriots were in need of high-scoring victory. They got it Saturday.
Seven different players scored for Jay County, with Cydney Huey, Lauren Evans and Alex Loy all contributing their first career goals to lead the girls soccer team to a 7-0 victory the visiting Muncie Southside Rebels.
“It was a much-needed goal-scoring game,” said JCHS coach Abby Champ, whose team is 2-7-3. “We never want to be that team that beats down on a team when they’re down, because that has happened to us too many times, but this was more of a moral thing for the girls, a mental thing. We definitely needed to score some goals, and we needed to see different people score goals.”
Although Jay County controlled the ball most of the time, the Rebels, who were limited to just 10 players because of injuries, held it scoreless for the first 14 minutes.
Champ said she had hoped her team would get off to a quick start because she did not want to see a repeat of the Patriots’ game against South Adams, in which they dominated possession but failed to get the ball in the net in a scoreless tie. So when she sent her second unit in, sending out an entirely new group of forwards and midfielders, she set a target of getting a goal within a minute.
They did it in 59 seconds.
The goal came at the 24:47 mark as Sammi Compton dribbled through the middle of the defense, maneuvering around several defenders and firing a shot to the left corner for a 1-0 lead.
“If you can get out there and do it fast, then you’ll relax,” said Champ. “They really wanted it.
“The first group, we felt like they were on  their heels, waiting for things to happen. We just said, ‘We want you to go out and get it.’”
The second unit, made up of freshmen and sophomores, got on the board again five minutes later when Ericka Reynolds had the ball on the left side and dropped it back to Maddie Bailey. She sent a pass across to the right side to Huey, who converted for a 2-0 lead.
Bailey again was key to the third goal, working the ball through defense before sending a pass up to Compton. She tapped the ball to her right, and Loy scored with 17:55 on the clock.
Reynolds got the Patriots going again with just over 12 minute to go in the opening half as she reversed the field with a pass across the field to Evans on the right side. Evans sent her shot just inside the right post for the 4-0 halftime advantage.
Champ said she felt the scores came because of more accurate, controlled passing as well as aggressiveness toward the ball and crashing the goal.
“We’re excited. It was a big game, a big win,” said Champ, whose team had scored just five times in its first 11 games. “Hopefully it’ll lead us into a big week next week.
“We’ve got Blackford, and we hope we can play Blackford much better than we did last year (in a 5-0 loss). And now we’ve had seven different people score goals for us this season, that gives us more opportunities.”
LeAnn Horn scored just five minutes into the second half off an assist from Mollie May. Lindsay Moser added a goal off a pass from Mallory Poole, and Shayla Gibbs put in a goal off an assist from Tiffany Huelskamp.
Brooke Reynard made the only save of the game for JCHS.[[In-content Ad]]