In front of a large crowd that came out to honor the 2021 Boiling Springs senior girls soccer players, it was only fitting that one of the seniors had a career night as Skylar Young recorded a hat trick to give the Bulldogs a 5-0 victory over the Gaffney Indians. The Bulldogs honored seven seniors on Wednesday night: Cass Austin, Sami Ewing, Victoria Hines, Claire Ladouceur, Jasmine Onufer, McKenna Wilson, and Skylar Young.
"I'm just really proud of our seniors because they've all worked so hard to be here and to come up through our system since seventh graders building the program the last few years into what it is now," said Boiling Springs head coach Jonathan Burnett. "I'm proud of them and how they played the whole game tonight, it was just a really special night." While Young led the Bulldogs on Tuesday night, it was a combination by two other seniors that gave Boiling Springs their first lead of the game. Sami Ewing gave the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead at the seventeen minute mark when she found the bottom right of the net after receiving an entry pass to the left side of the goal from fellow senior McKenna Wilson who was twenty yards away on the other side of the field. Gaffney attempted to even the score up a few minutes later as they got behind the Bulldogs defense but a great sliding save by goalie Abby Fisher managed to keep the Bulldogs ahead. After the save by Fisher, Skylar Young started her big night as she herself was able to break behind the Gaffney defense where she found herself with a one-on-one matchup with the goalie in which she juked left before finding the back right of the net with a right footed shot to put the Bulldogs ahead 2-0 at the thirty-one minute mark of the first half. "After I scored that first goal of the night I could feel my confidence starting to grow and I felt like it could be the start of a good game," said Young. With less than two minutes to go in the first half Young combined with her goal scoring counterpart Sami Ewing to pick up her second goal of the game as Ewing broke in from the left corner of the field to find Young in front of the goal for a left footed shot that found the back of the Gaffney net to put Boiling Springs ahead 3-0 as they went into halftime. It didn't take long into the second half to complete the hat trick but it did take a little good fortune. Just nine minutes into the second half the Bulldogs were making another attack on the Gaffney goal as a Bulldogs player took a shot that ricocheted off the right goal post directly to the foot of Young who then fired a right footed shot that found the back of the Gaffney net to put the Bulldogs up 4-0 and give Young three goals for the night. "Skylar had two goals at halftime and the girls started coming off the field talking about possible hat tricks," said Burnett. "For her to actually accomplish that, it's not easy. I'm just so excited for Skylar to have one of her last nights on this field to be such a positive one." Young said to come away with a hat trick on her senior night was a great accomplishment and it showed how well her team was playing as one. "It means a lot especially coming on our senior night," said Young. "We all finally came together after a couple of rough games and played well together. It just means a lot to be able to come away with a win on our senior night." The Bulldogs added a fifth goal at the fifty-three minute mark of the game when sophomore Drey Nesbitt received a cross to left side of the goal from junior Shiloh Worth before using a left footed shot to find the back of the net giving the Bulldogs a 5-0 lead. Boiling Springs will return to action on Friday night in another home region match against Nation Ford. Comments are closed.
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