{"id":319929,"date":"2026-11-03T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319929\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T02:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:22:10","slug":"defending-district-10-girls-soccer-champ-cathedral-prep-overwhelms-slippery-rock-in-semifinals-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319929\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending District 10 girls soccer champ Cathedral Prep overwhelms Slippery Rock in semifinals \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Slippery Rock’s Deeliah Thangiah, seen here in a game earlier this season, blocked a handful of shots in Monday\u2019s District 10 semifinal loss to Cathedral Prep. Matthew Brown\/Butler Eagle<\/p>\n

\n Matthew Brown\n <\/p>\n

MEADVILLE \u2014 Overcoming Cathedral Prep girls soccer was going to take a near-flawless effort, something that simply wasn\u2019t in the cards for Slippery Rock<\/a> in Monday\u2019s District 10 Class 2A semifinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The top-seeded Ramblers, two-time defending district champions, hovered in front of the Rockets\u2019 net for much of the night, scoring four goals in the first half of an 8-0 defeat of Slippery Rock at Meadville High School\u2019s Barco-Duratz Athletic Complex.<\/p>\n

The Ramblers (17-1-1) have now outscored their opponents by a combined 116-10 this season. They will face No. 2 Fort LeBoeuf, a 7-0 winner over General McLane, in Wednesday\u2019s final at a site and time to be determined.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere were stretches where we played well tonight,\u201d Slippery Rock head coach Matt Purtell said. \u201cBut Prep is a very accomplished team, and they have no weaknesses. It was just too tough tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peyton Rodgers\u2019 goal in the seventh minute was the only score in the first 20 minutes, but the Ramblers\u2019 pressure weighed on Slippery Rock (14-4-2).<\/p>\n

Aside from the 14 saves made in the game by Rockets\u2019 goalie Sophie Hensel, Prep had a number of shots blocked by Slippery Rock defenders.<\/p>\n

Deeliah Thangiah and Brynn Miller blocked a combined five shots in a span of two minutes during the first half before Prep\u2019s Kate Petersen netted her team\u2019s second goal in the 21st minute.<\/p>\n

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Related Article: Slippery Rock girls soccer, on Shareen Thangiah\u2019s huge night, sweeps rival Grove City for 1st time in 4 years<\/p>\n

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Jordyn DiRaimo then scored a pair less than three minutes apart for a 4-0 edge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe preach a score-by-committee approach,\u201d Prep head coach Peter Wagner said. \u201cWhoever has the run or the best shot, that\u2019s who we want to score.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slippery Rock\u2019s offensive opportunities were few and never with numbers on its side. Shareen Thangiah, the Rockets\u2019 leading scorer on the season, and teammate Keira Wilhelm made several individual runs at Prep\u2019s Jordan Senz in the first half, but the goalie came off her line in more than enough time to pull the plug on each chance.<\/p>\n

Thangiah\u2019s shot from 12 yards early in the second half was just wide right of the net and backup goalie Gia Cachione, who made two saves late in the game, one on a shot from Gracie Hoehn from 35 yards.<\/p>\n

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Related Article: Slippery Rock girls soccer\u2019s defense, with rookie goalie, frustrating opponents <\/p>\n

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The Rockets improved from eight wins a year ago to 14 this season and won a District 10 Region 2 title and a playoff game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls played their hearts out tonight,\u201d Purtell said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t quit the whole game, and that\u2019s all you can ask for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slippery Rock’s Deeliah Thangiah, seen here in a game earlier this season, blocked a handful of shots in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3035,3027,3022,3042,3048,3051,1610,3030,3028,31,3029,3034,3025,136,138,137,3047,3041,3024,3045,3033,3023,3036,182,3049,3039,139,3026,28,3040,39,3031,3044,3043,3032,3050,3038,3037,3046],"class_list":["post-319929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}