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By Matt Pelkky
s Rappahannock News StaffWriter
Head coach Dave Gillis has high hopes for Rappahannock’s varsity girls’ soccer team this season. The ladies believe in themselves, he said, and already have a chemistry, an energy, that will make them a more formidable force in the district.
Last Thursday the girls proved that they could step it up and put last year’s 2-14 seasod behind them, holding the Warren County Wildcats, who ran roughshod over the Panthers a year ago, to a hard-earned 2-0 win.
“We’re very pleased,” coach Gillis said after the game — the first of the season.
Led by new sweeper Elena Kritter and goalie Brittany Clatterbuck, the girls’ defense shut down the Wildcats’ onslaught time and again.
Kritter deflected shots from the middle and both sides, and fought through skirmishes within shooting range of the goal to clear the ball up to the midfielders and forwards.
And even with Kritter and the other defenders doing their best, Clatterbuck saw quite a bit of action in goal. She caught, punched or pushed out nearly two dozen strong shots, letting only two by.
Coach Gillis named Kritter, and Clatterbuck, as well as midfielder Megan Wheatley, players of the game.
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