NHP Lady Pumas beat Northshore 3-2

The Island Now

In what turned out to be a very exciting game, the New Hyde Park Lady Pumas squared off against the always tough Division N1 Northshore squad in Round 1 of the Waldbaums Long Island Cup.

NHP dominated the first half and built a 3-0 lead off superb passing, converting a corner kick, a deflection off a free kick, and a super pass off a hard charge up the middle out of the defensive third.

Northshore came out flying in the second half and made things very interesting, scoring twice in the first 10 minutes.

Weathering the storm, the Lady Pumas controlled the final 15 minutes, could have scored two or three more goals, and came away with a much-deserved and hard-fought 3-2 victory.

The NHP attack was led by Katie Krems (super dribbling, an assist on a corner kick, two goals), Izzy Glennon (beautiful karate kick goal off the corner kick, and an assist on her direct kick that Kaite deflected in), Theodora Papadoniou (super energy, high shot just over the goal, excellent crosses), Cara Becker (hard charging on goal), Kira Crehan (an almost goal, nice pressure, and nice trapping), Sophia

Leeds (nice crosses and nice throwins), Clare Iriate (super passing and foot work).

The defense, which did a super job of switching off in the first half, was led by Mackenzie Griffin (super traps and great run on goal in the firs half), Casey Sanders (excellent throw-ins, nice clears and great run up field and assist on goal No. 3), Stephanie Karczedwski (great switchig and clears up the sideline), Eleni Spiratos (great in your face D, hard charging traps and clears), and Isabel Ugolini (great passing out of the back, and super in your-face D). In goal was Ellie Eisenberg who did a super job blocking and diving on loose balls – and getting to everythng that she should have (and then some), plus super punts.

Casey Conners and Edna Dudek – we missed you

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