Greenwood girls soccer coach Noe Cerezo knew his team would be ready for its big District 2-4A match against Lubbock-Cooper Liberty on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The players assured their head coach in the locker room before the match that they would indeed be up for the challenge against the first-place team after playing well against Liberty in the first meeting.<\/p>\n
The Rangerettes not only got a goal in each half, but junior goalkeeper Farrah Fortner saved a few shots from the Patriots to preserve a 2-0 victory at J.M. King Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed that so bad,\u201d Fortner said. \u201cWe all fought so hard and it\u2019s so amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was a big win for Greenwood (11-2-5, 11-0-2 in district) as it moves into first place and owns the goal differential against Liberty (13-3-1, 11-1-1) with five matches remaining in the regular season. The teams tied 1-1 in the first meeting on Jan. 22 before Liberty won the penalty kick tiebreaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, the girls played outstanding,\u201d Cerezo said. \u201cThey kept possession of the ball, they played hard, and they followed every coaching they had, and that\u2019s all we need from them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Rangerettes took the lead early in the match when Amairani Ruvalcaba scored off a corner kick from Emily Jones less than 10 minutes into the contest.<\/p>\n
That score may have been enough with the way Fortner was playing in goal as she would either be in the right spot for the save or she would dive to punch the ball away from the goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe literally saved quite a few goals,\u201d said Cerezo about his keeper. \u201cShe\u2019s a great goalie. From last year and the year before, she\u2019s been the starting goalie. I actually think that today proves she belongs there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Said Fortner, \u201cI just did everything for my team. It was pretty tough. They have great shooters and credit to them, but our defense worked so hard. It was a great win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cerezo also gave credit to the rest of his defense and them assisting on the clean sheet. This was Greenwood\u2019s 10th shutout win in district play this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cOutstanding, outstanding,\u201d he said. \u201cAll four of them were playing well, they were marking, they were actually not giving up space, and they were running with them. They were really good. I can\u2019t complain.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Rangerettes added an insurance goal with 35:52 remaining when Addyson Adame fed Jones, who scored from the right side to give her team the 2-0 advantage.<\/p>\n
The Rangerettes look to continue the momentum at 5:30 p.m. Friday when they travel to Snyder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenwood girls soccer coach Noe Cerezo knew his team would be ready for its big District 2-4A match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-179943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}