BIG RAPIDS \u2013 Big Rapids\u2019 girls soccer team celebrated the Central State Activities Association soccer title on Friday at Cardinal Stadium after defeating Tri County 7-0 in the \u00a0tournament championship game.<\/p>\n
Big Rapids (14-4-1) beat Tri County (12-5-2) for the second time this season. The Cardinals won 3-1 during the regular season and by virtue of Friday\u2019s win, they finished the entire league schedule undefeated.<\/p>\n
Big Rapids built a 2-0 halftime lead and poured in five unanswered goals in the next 40 minutes. Nalaya Fricke tallied three goals while Nuray Fricke, Anna Vance,\u00a0Maddie Vallade and Emily Waltz notched one apiece.<\/p>\n
Oliva Godfrey was the winning goalkeeper.<\/p>\n
For the second straight game Big Rapids was able to shut down Savannah Thompson who became just the fourth player in MHSAA girls soccer history earlier this season to score 200 goals after having a seven-goal performance against Lakeview.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a really good game,\u201d Waltz said. \u201cI think we had our struggles during the game but I think we really pulled together and finished off the conference really good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe communicated the best I think we\u2019ve communicated this season,\u201d Ava Westin said. \u201cEven though I think we cold have gotten a few more goals, other than that, I think we did very well.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was Fricke\u2019s highest single game for goal scoring.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think our team competed very well againt this team,\u201d Fricke said. \u201cWe knew the competition was going to be good going into this game. I think we handled business early and we just did what we needed to get to the win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Big Rapids coach Curt Ray was pleased with what he saw.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe girls played hard,\u201d Ray said. \u201cTri County came in here with nothing to lose and everything to gain. They\u2019ve been getting a lot of PR this year. Savannah is a great player and our defense played well. The girls have been playing, most of them, 80 minutes a game. You\u2019ve got to take that into consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Big Rapids is home on May 18 against Fremont to end the regular season. The Cardinals host Muskegon High on May 22 in a district first-round game.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal when we start the season is to win a conference and then the conference tournament,\u201d Ray said. \u201cThe third is to win the district going into the postseason.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just need to continue working, continue communicating, continuing working as a team and keep building up as a team,\u201d Nalaya Fricke said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIG RAPIDS \u2013 Big Rapids\u2019 girls soccer team celebrated the Central State Activities Association soccer title on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-675760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675760","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=675760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}