JACKSONVILLE – Alton’s first venture into Class 2A girls playoff soccer came to an end Saturday with a 3-0 loss to Jacksonville at Illinois College in a play-in game of the IHSA Class 2A Mattoon Regional.<\/p>\n
Alton, which moved the 2A from Class 3A this season with IHSA realignment for girls soccer, trailed 3-0 at halftime\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Redbirds, who battled low roster number all season, finished their season 3-19 overall. To make their numbers problems worse, injuries, as well as the Alton High graduation ceremony Saturday morning, dropped them to one sub available for Saturday’s afternoon start.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville will advance to he semifinal round of the Mattoon Regional Tuesday and face No. 1 seed Springfield High School at 4:30 p.m.. The\u00a0Crimsons are now 11-13 on the\u00a0season. The winner of their game against Springfield will play for the regional championship.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s victory was Jacksonville’s first postseason win in 11 years. The game was moved to IC from Jacksonville\u2019s Alumni Field after rain earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
Alton created some scoring chances early in Saturday’s game, but Jacksonville took the lead when\u00a0Madalyn DeFrates scored in the 19th minute to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n
Ten minutes later, Jacksonville\u00a0doubled its lead when Payton Murray scored with 10:52 left in the first half.<\/p>\n
Myah Mefford capped the scoring for\u00a0the Crimsons with a goal in the 37th minute, assisted by DeFrates, to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville goalie The Redbirds got off some dangerous scoring\u00a0chances in the first half, but were turned away by starting goalie Chloe Kuhn, who made a pair of leaping saves and tipped the ball over top of the goal. Kuhn was replaced in goal by Mefford in the second half and they shared the shutout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE – Alton’s first venture into Class 2A girls playoff soccer came to an end Saturday with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[108531,116,118,117,115,110],"class_list":["post-275179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-altgame","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}