WAKE UP for a SOCCER UPDATE | Kilgore girls rockin’ it; KHS boys, Center battling for first; complete district standings and upcoming games
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Kilgore High School’s girls soccer team believes they’re the best team in District 16-4A.
And they’re making believers out of other people, too: namely, the other teams in the district.
Center was the latest to be convinced in a home game for Kilgore on Monday night at R.E. St. John Memorial Stadium.
The Lady Bulldogs not only got a shutout – a 6-0 win – but freshman Azul Vazquez had a hat trick: she scored three goals in the game.
Senior Sole Hunt scored two, and moved the Lady Bulldogs to 7-0 in district play.
It was the Lady ‘Dogs’ ninth straight win.
Kilgore, coach Daniel Garcia said, has scored 45 goals in district and allowed only one. And that goalkeeper is senior Julieta Gonzalez, doing a masterful job.
Freshman Ivanna Loredo scored the Lady ‘Dogs’ other goal in the game at Center, where Kilgore led 2-0 at the half.
The district standings look like this: Kilgore is on top with a 7-0 district record. Henderson is in second place with a 5-1-1 district record, and two straight wins. Spring Hill is third, with the same record as Henderson, and also has two straight wins. Pine Tree, also a school in the ETBlitz.com coverage area, is 4-3 in 16-4A, and if the playoffs started today, those would be the four postseason teams (Kilgore, Henderson, Sabine, Pine Tree, Carthage, and Tatum are all in the ETBlitz.com coverage area – of all the 16-4A teams, only Center is not an ETB-area school).
Center is 3-4 and in fifth place; Carthage is 2-5 and has three straight losses; and both Tatum and Sabine – 3A programs that play up with Class 4A in soccer, due to the lack of 3A schools with soccer programs – are seventh and eighth. Tatum is 1-6, with three straight losses, and Sabine is 0-7.
The Lady Bulldogs are 11-2-3 on the season, and they’re back in action Friday night, taking on another program in the ETBlitz.com area, the Sabine High School Lady Cardinals. That game will begin at 5 p.m.
The game will be the first of a double-header at James Bamberg Stadium on Sabine’s campus: coach Hector Peralez’s Kilgore Bulldogs will follow, facing the Cardinals after the varsity girls game concludes.
Speaking of the Bulldogs, they’re coming off the rarest of losses: a district loss. Kilgore has dominated its district in boys soccer for about two decades. The Bulldogs did slip Tuesday night, dropping a 1-0 decision at Center, one of the toughest places to play in the district. It was the ‘Dogs’ first loss of the season, according to our records here at ETB.
In the last state poll, Kilgore was No. 1 in the entire state in Class 4A; Center was ranked sixth.
Center actually leads the district right now, with a 7-0 record. Kilgore is solidly in second place, at 5-1, and as mentioned, visits Sabine Friday night. Pine Tree is third in 16-4A, with a 4-2 mark, and Sabine is fourth, at 3-3, in the district standings.
The rest: Carthage is in fifth (2-4), Henderson, sixth (1-5), and Tatum seventh (0-6 in district and with eight straight losses).
In other games around the boys division of the district on Friday night, Carthage hosts Tatum in an afternoon double-header with the girls (girls at noon, boys at 2); Henderson hosts Pine Tree, beginning at 6:45 p.m. at Henderson Lions ISD Stadium. Center has an open date.
In girls play, Center will host Spring Hill, and that game is actually scheduled for tonight at 5 p.m.; Kilgore will play at Sabine on Friday night as mentioned, also varsity girls starting at 5; Henderson’s Lady Lions and Pine Tree’s Lady Pirates play a huge game at Pirate Stadium in Longview on Friday at 6:45 p.m.; and Carthage hosts Tatum in that afternoon game, starting at noon.
