South Windsor Girls Soccer Team Powers Past Windsor

Two games into the season, Ed Duclos, the head coach of the South Windsor High girls soccer team, provided a refreshing assessment of his charges’ collective performance.

“I couldn’t have scripted it any better,” Duclos said in a telephone interview just hours after his Bobcats defeated Windsor 7-0 in South Windsor on Friday.

Indeed, Duclos, whose team went 11-0-4 in the regular season last year before losing in the second round of the state Class LL tournament, installed a new 4-3-3 formation before this year to increase scoring changes.

After two games, the Bobcats have outscored their opponents 12-1. The seven goals against Windsor would have been the most the Bobcats scored in a single game last year. South Windsor scored six goals twice last year - both times against Weaver.

“We have more depth [this year] and more people stepping up in our new formation,” Duclos said.

Meghan Miller led a balanced attack, scoring two goals (her first two ever on varsity), while Christine Allard had a goal and an assist, Kat Comeau had a goal and an assist, and Colleen Bouquot, Amy McConnell and Auna Harvey each scored a goal apiece. Becca Russo also assisted on two goals.

While the offense has shown terrific early returns, it hasn’t come at the expense of the Bobcats’ trademark suffocating defense.

Indeed, South Windsor earned its first clean sheet of the season after recording 11 last year. The defense’s attitude hasn’t changed, either. When Bristol Eastern scored a rare goal against the Bobcats in the first game of the year on Tuesday, the stunned Bobcats’ defenders looked incredulous, as if to say, “How in the world did that happen?”

It’s that approach that has the Bobcats hoping for big things to come out of this year, as hey held their own against Northwest Catholic - generally considered to be the best team in the state - in a scrimmage this season.

“We know where we want to be and what it takes,” Duclos said.

South Windsor will test its 2-0 record against CCC North rival Manchester on the road on Sept. 18.