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Lady 'Cats host Ridgway tomorrow
Written by: Joel Priest
3/23/2007
A short bench got shorter this past week for IHS girls’ soccer coach Jenn Bartlett.
“Add one more player to the list,” she said regretfully. “We lost Stefanie, our German exchange student, for the rest of the season.”
Boese, a junior, had seen extended playing time in Ignacio’s last match—a 6-0 road defeat against the Montezuma-Cortez JV’s—but now will merely spectate after breaking an ankle. The injury comes at a particularly bad time, albeit early, in the season with the Ridgway Lady Demons visiting IHS Field tomorrow at 11 a.m. Ridgway had played a very physical match in their previous trip to the Valley, but lost 2-1 in overtime at Bayfield.
That’s the bad news.
Here’s the good news: Two more Lady Bobcats appear ready for duty again.
With an indirect assist from hockey-headed Telluride, freshman Venicia Sala and junior Jentrie Ribera have had a nine-day lull in which to heal. Sala had been fighting a nagging foot problem, possibly an arch issue, while Ribera had sustained a concussion blocking a Danielle Bemelen rocket with her head in Ignacio’s March 13 loss to BHS.
“They say it was very minor,” commented Bartlett, “so she should be ready for Ridgway.”
Ignacio (1-2 overall, 1-1 3A Southwestern) had been scheduled to host THS last Saturday, but the match was postponed to early April due to the involvement of many key Lady Miners with the Lizard Head Hockey Club’s U19 squad, which took second in the 2007 Mountain State Girls’ Hockey League Championships (non-CHSAA event) last weekend in Arvada.
“They’re always excited and ready to play,” team coach John Cohn recently told the Telluride Daily Planet. “They’re always asking when the next practice is, and a lot of them are putting off soccer because this is so important to them.”
What will be important for IHS in their return to the pitch will be to remember the second half of the M-CHS match. After surrendering four scores in the first half—including two by freshman Shelby Janz in the first five minutes—Bartlett’s team clamped down in the second and ran the Lady Panthers ragged. M-CHS’ only goals of the half came out of a scrum in front of screened Ignacio goalie Savannah Pearson in the 67th minute, and an empty-netter in the 82nd.
Otherwise, Ignacio controlled the half, and left M-CHS’ players grabbing their jerseys and arms in a sad show of desperate slow-down tactics. Near-misses, by junior Courtney Webb in the 49th from just outside the elbow of the Panther 18, by sophomore Elisa Gallegos in the 66th from deep inside the penalty area, and by senior Julia Thomson in the 79th from about 15 yards out, gave M-CHS notice that the ’Cats weren’t letting the match end via mercy rule.
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