Jap Florida State School Girls’s Soccer Falls Brief in Nationwide Championship Recreation

titans completed the season 14-4-1

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Jap Florida State School girls’s soccer workforce misplaced a hard-fought battle with Iowa Western within the NJCAA Division I Nationwide Championship Recreation Saturday afternoon in Wichita, Kansas.

Iowa Western scored on a pleasant shot outdoors the field one minute, 35 seconds into the primary time beyond regulation session to win the nationwide title 1-0.

“I felt like we by no means actually bought occurring our A recreation, we battled arduous however by no means appeared to click on all day,” Jap Florida State School girls’s soccer coach Scott Carswell mentioned.

“We had a flurry within the final couple minutes of the second half and after that I believed we have been going to come back out and shock them in OT but it surely was an incredible aim by them and they’re an incredible workforce.”

The Titans and Reivers have been scoreless by means of the primary 90 minutes of the sport because the Jap Florida State School protection held Iowa Western at bay regardless of being examined for a lot of the competition.

However goalkeeper Lauren Pastor had one among her finest matches as a Titan, stopping seven pictures together with a number of that appeared like positive targets.

Pastor and Nancy Almanza have been named to the All-Event workforce after the sport.

Almanza is amongst 11 sophomores who performed their closing recreation for the Titans on Saturday afternoon. The workforce completed the season 14-4-1, reaching the nationwide championship event closing for simply the fourth tie at school historical past. The group received each the Area 8 and Southeast District Championships.

“Our children overachieved all yr and there are so much worse issues than being runner-up,” Carswell mentioned.

“Each time any person bought injured or bought a card and we needed to transfer individuals round, somebody stepped up. It’s a nice group of sophomores and that’s the draw back to junior faculty, you solely get them for 2 years and we’re going to miss them, however they left an affect on Jap Florida.”

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