By Sara Page, Midlothian Exchange
spage@midlothianexchange.com

Updated May 13, 2010

The Cosby girls’ soccer team suffered a loss to regionally ranked Mills Godwin early last week, so it was with a sense of having something to prove that the Lady Titans took the field against Deep Run in their second game of the College Soccer Showcase at Midlothian High School on Friday.

What they proved in a 3-0 win was that the Lady Titans are playoff ready.

“Coming into this we’ve been playing really great soccer, it’s really just about finishing,” Cosby head coach Roger Lattimer said. “We’ve had opportunities throughout, and we’ve just continued to not finish, so we’ve been focusing on that. We came out today and that’s what we did. We really finished.”

The Lady Titans got their first finishing opportunity five minutes into the game. Claire Walker collected a ball in Cosby’s defensive end and sent a clearing shot ahead to Tessa Broadwater on the right side. Broadwater sent a beautiful leading pass to Joy Grove. Deep Run defender Chaney LaReau took control, but the Cosby midfield controlled the clear. The pass went back up the field to Becca Wann who found Courtney Hook for the goal.

Wann got her own chance to finish 10 minutes later as she dodged a defender on the right side of the goal, which pulled Deep Run goalie Hannah Moyer out to defend. Wann touched the ball around Moyer, took a step and popped the goal in.

The Lady Titans dominated the first half of play, but Deep Run got a few more looks in the second half.

Deep Run’s Christina Corbin took a direct kick from midfield to start the second half. Cosby goalie Blayne Fink got one hand on the shot to redirect it back into the field of play. The follow up sailed high.

Ten minutes later Brittany Entz beat a defender down the right side of the field. Jayden Metzger recovered to block the cross and give Kelsey Blum a chance at the clear. With injuries to the backfield, the Titans were sporting a young defense.

“Three of our four starters were out today for our defense but we had lots of great people step up,” Lattimer said. “We had two freshmen and one sophomore and a junior, so we were definitely young. They played great.”

The Titans added their final goal with 30 minutes left to play. Grove scored from the right post off a perfect cross from Broadwater.

In Thursday’s game, the Lady Titans got scoring from five different players in an 8-1 win over Powhatan.

Scoring for Cosby was Gina D’Orazio, Grove and Wann with two each and Lindsay Carns and Hook with one each.

Grace Fehan scored the lone goal for the Lady Indians.

Mandy Stowers made 10 saves in goal for Powhatan while Fink made four for Cosby.