Blazer Beat

 It had been almost 2 years since the Varsity girls soccer team has taken the field. After having last season ripped from them due to the shutdowns and Covid-19. So there was going to be some nerves and rust to knock off, as they traveled down to Maryland to open MDCC league play against New Life Christian School. It was a much different starting lineup from the last time they took the field as they would have lost 2 groups of seniors New Life opened the scoring about 10 minutes into the game with a distance shot. The Blazers would battle back and even the score about 5 minutes later when sophomore Ruth Hepler finished a breakaway. This would prove to be a theme of the game. New Life put away another goal and took the lead again, 5 minutes after the Blazer equalized. New Life's striker was able to control a ball in the 18 and rip another clean shot. Once again the Blazers answered shortly after, as New Life gave up a penalty kick and Laurel Reitz was called upon to take it and she

 The Lady Blazers found themselves in the same spot they found themselves the last 2 years, hosting a first-round MDCC playoff contest. While it has been a different opponent every year the result has held the same, a resounding Blazer victory. This time the team was the Grace Academy Knights.  While it might have been a clear March afternoon outside, inside the gym umbrellas were needed as the Blazers were raining down 3s from all over the court. Mollee Stake and Amber Yanosik each hit a pair in the first quarter and from there the Blazers never looked back. The Blazers also played relentless man-to-man defense. At the end of the 1st quarter, the Blazers were up 13-4. In the 2nd quarter the Blazers showed that they could win in multiple ways. They switched their defense to a stfiling 2-3 zone. While on the offensive end their focus turned from the perimeter to the paint, as they would dominate their. Junior big Sarah Vandersleen feasted on the block. She would score 6 points in the qu

 The past couple of weeks from the Blazers have been up and down. They have faced some adversity and gotten out of the regular season flow. Typically they would be playing 2-3 games a week, this has not been the case lately. Due to snow, and conditions out of their control, they have a very disjointed end to their regular season.  They have only played about 5 games in the last 3 weeks, and that has had its effect on the team. They have lost 3 tough games in that stretch, one of them losing at the buzzer to the #1 seed in the conference, and another heartbreaker to their cross-town rival. Along with that, they have multiple games canceled, some even just a few hours before tip-off. Yet that has not deterred or distracted them from their goals and finishing the season off the best way they know. They traveled down to Fredrick, MD to take on the New Life Christian School Rams, and they were able to get back to their winning ways. New Life gave them everything they could handle early and