The Lady Cats traveled to Longview for their first game of tournament play for the 22-23 soccer season. Their first match up was Carthage. Sulphur Springs Lady Cats maintained possession of the ball for the majority of the first half of the game. They did well with give go passing, 1 to 1 challenges, and receiving the ball, to ultimately dominate the first half of the game. Late in the first half Kylie Clark put up the first points with a breakaway run to score. Carthage attempted to score but Sophomore Mya Olvera stopped the shot at the Sulphur Springs goal.
Middle of the second half Clark scores her second goal with a run up the middle and a shot outside the 18. A throw in pass to Anna Williams for the 3rd goal. Cross by Addy Fenton with another goal by Williams. The Lady Cats pulled out a strong first win of 4-0.
The second half of the game Sulphur Springs maintained possession of the ball and should have had a few more goals. The Lady Cats fought hard to keep Hallsville from scoring again and ended up falling short of the win. The game closed out with Hallsville taking the win 2-1.
Last game of the tournamnet saw the Ladycats play against Jacksonville. Jacksonville put up the first goal against the Ladycats. The Ladycats answers with a goal of their own by Shultz from a pass from Fenton. A second half late goal by Jacksonville to made the game 2-1. Sulphur Springs kept pushing towards the goal and kept out shooting on Jacksonville but their scorning opportunities were either stopped by the keeper or went a bit wide of the goal.
Submitted by: Allison Libby-Thesing