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While some individuals shone, as a team, the Panthers demonstrated cohesion. That could be chalked up to 15 returning players and a large number of juniors and seniors — 14 on the 21-person roster.
Gillis said the Panthers now need to work on “finishing.”
Before sending his players out onto the field against Warren, he told the girls to play a possession game — he wanted them to keep the ball in their control and away from the other team. The defense did that,” but the offense struggled.
“When we got up in the red zone — the upper third (of the field) — we stopped the possession game,” Gillis said.
Most of the game was played on Rappahannock’s side of the midfield line. When the Panther defense sent the ball up to the forwards, the runs to the goal were quickly cut short by a pass missing its mark and rolling out of bounds or a Wildcat defender’s foot.
The closest the Panthers came to a goal was a penalty shot from inside the box, though that was deflected and kicked away.
But overall Gillis is optimistic.
“We’re going to give it a go,” he said.
The girls’ next game is today, away, again against Warren County.
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