The New Canaan Soccer Girls U10 Red Team Victorious at SCOR Tournament

The New Canaan Soccer Girls U10 Red Team came up big with a record of 3-0-1 at the SCOR (Soccer Club of Ridgefield) Tournament on Sunday, Oct. 12.

The tournament featured teams from around the area and consisted of four 25 minute fast paced games. The first game played by New Canaan was a rematch of last week’s game against the Stamford Hurricanes.

Once again the Red Team defeated the Hurricanes 1-0 on a breakaway goal from Ava Gizzie. Evelyn Slatoff was perfect in goal and the defense held strong which allowed New Canaan to chalk up their first victory of the day.

Next, the New Canaan team faced the Wilton White team in another high energy game. This time Katie Polacek blasted a shot into the top of the net creating a 1-0 lead. The Red Team’s defensive play and strong goal keeping of Julia Dunn shut down the Wilton team and the game ended in a 1-0 victory.

The third game of the day was played against the Fairfield Red Team. The Fairfield team scored first on a penalty kick to take a 1-0 lead. However, New Canaan battled back and was able to tie the game on a beautiful breakaway goal from Caroline Underwood.

With the game even at 1-1, the New Canaan defense and goal tending of Ellie Gallois was able to keep Fairfield from scoring any further goals. As time ran out, this game went into the books as a 1-1 tie.

Finally the last game played was against the Southbury Blue Lightning. The scoring opened up when Ellie Gallois scored on a crossing pass from Ella Patterson. Moments later Gallois added another goal to make the score 2-0.

Working as a team Ella Patterson scored the third goal on an assist from Gallois. New Canaan kept up the offensive pressure and Katie Polacek stole the ball in front of the Southbury goal and beat the goalie to send the score to 4-0.

With just minutes remaining Katharine Byrne’s footwork allowed her to thread the defense and cap off the New Canaan scoring for the day. Once again the defense was impenetrable and Ava Gizzie’s goal tending shut out the Southbury team by a score of 5-0. New Canaan finished the tournament with three victories and one tie, only allowing one goal and scoring eight of their own.

Photo :New Canaan’s Addie Cannon and Kate Caione move the ball past the Stamford defense.