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“They are a good team and they have solid team speed,” said East coach Jeff Church. “There is definitely nobody out there that can say we play a pie nonconference schedule.”
Trinity used precision passing from the midfield up, creating scoring attacks left and right that had East keeper Emily Albright busy the entire game.
THS needed four minutes to score the first tally of the night, as Carol Burns saved the ball on the sideline that nearly went out, and raced from 35 yards out the rest of the way for a goal.
Ashton Vance and Logan Terry helped each other out on the next two goals as the Bulldogs went up 3-0 at the 17 minute mark. Vance headed a ball over to her teammate who put it away upstairs with her head for the first one, and Terry scored once again when Vance ripped a shot of the hands of Albright, and was at the right place to clean up the play.
East had a few chances to notch a point with a Dee Lanier shot off the post, and a missed one-timer by Diana Torres on a Lanier cross, but nothing ever found its way to the net.
“We had at least four opportunities where we could have put the ball in the net and we didn’t, which is a little disappointing because I would like to see us finish better,” said Church.
Vance finally got to be on the best end of a play when she dropped in a goal of her own making it 4-0, and Trinity went on to add two more in the rout.
The Golden Eagles were playing without three starters on the back line, and were just trying to get in some good playing time since the game does not amount to much. Glancing at next week, East hopes to be making a push towards the postseason and a positive conclusion to conference play.
“We are looking to finish out the last part of conference and get ourselves in position for a playoff spot, and see if we can accomplish one of our goals,” said Church.
Albright had 13 saves on 23 Trinity shots.
East falls to 5-8 on the year, as they get back to CCC action Monday to host Central Davidson at 7.