But Zephyrs players, especially the young ones, have stepped up for their older, injured teammates. Mahtomedi graduated 11 seniors from last year\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
\u201cComing from an eighth-grader, I just think that it\u2019s important to do it for the upperclassmen, and I want it really badly for them, especially when they\u2019re injured,\u201d said Lucy Peer, who tied the score in the second half after Mahtomedi faced a 1-0 halftime hole. \u201cEverybody needs to just work really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Junior Elise Aflakpi netted the game-winner, assisted by senior Kayla Poirier, who also assisted on Peer\u2019s goal. Freshman Olivia Boberg cleared a Cougars chance off the goal line that would have tied the game late.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hasn\u2019t always been pretty, but these guys get it done,\u201d Wald said. \u201cThe last few years, we\u2019ve had a lot of people in front of [these players]. \u2026 There\u2019s a lot of pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the second half, said Wald, \u201cwe didn\u2019t change anything other than we wanted them to control the ball more, relax, pass, settle down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Future St. Thomas keeper and current Zephyrs captain Harlow Berger has locked it down in net without Worden, with whom she split time last year, receiving all-state honors and a Ms. Soccer finalist nod. Her ability to punt and kick nearly three-fourths of the field doesn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Zephyrs players, especially the young ones, have stepped up for their older, injured teammates. Mahtomedi graduated 11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-248625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}