FM girls start soccer season with win

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BY CHUCK VANDENBERG

PCC EDITOR

FORT MADISON - It took about 10 minutes for the Lady Hounds to get their soccer legs, but Fort Madison opened the soccer season with a 3-1 win over Canton at Baxter Sports Complex.

Fort Madison got behind in the first period when senior Josie Pumphrey got caught to the side of a Canton attack in the early going of the match.

Head Coach Sebastian Seifert said the team was out of sorts for the first 10 minutes.

"We were forcing a lot of things in the first 10 minutes or so, but the girls were able to calm down and get their focus from that point."

With 3:05 left in the first half, the Lady Hounds got the ball to the middle of the field just to left of center where Anna Kester was able to slide into a seam and send a shot past the Canton keeper who had come out to defend. Kester's shot cleared the keeper and found the top back of the net to tie the game at 1, where it would stay until half time.

Fort Madison dominated the second half from the whistle keeping the ball on the Lady Hounds' north side of the pitch for most of the rest of the game.

With 24:10 left in the second half, Maddy McVey got loose with the ball and fired a shot to the right side of a diving keeper for a 2-1 lead.

Brandy Walker would score again at the 12:31 mark, coming in from the right side with a sharp angle shot from about 15 feet out to set the final score.

Pumphrey allowed just the one goal and recorded three saves in the game.

Seifert said he was happy with the win considering the squad hasn't had a lot of time to practice due to the cold temperatures and rain of late.

Fort Madison's Dezire Kline shows off some foot skills in the second half of the Hounds' 3-1 win over Canton, Mo., on Monday night. Photo by Chuck Vandenberg/PCC

"We just haven't been able to get out with weather the way it's been, so I'm happy with the way the girls played today."

Seifert said the Hounds are down about seven players from 2018 numbers.

"We're going with about 24 and some of the girls played a lot of minutes tonight, but we're off to a good start to the season.

The Hounds had 13 shots on goal overall led by McVey and Walker with three each. Senior Kaeli Hutson and freshman Rylee Zimmerman each had two shots on the night.

The Hounds move to 1-0 and travel to the Dexter Sports Complex in Fairfield for a match against the Trojans on Thursday night.


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