By: Joe Blystone
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
publisher@thevillagereporter.com
DELTA (September 23, 2024) – Sometimes you just do almost everything right and you feel like you got nothing accomplished. Delta outshot visiting Eastwood, had more good scoring chances than the Eagles but at the end of the day, the Panthers couldn’t put the biscuit in the basket and settled for a scoreless deadlock. Delta is now 8-2-1 while Eastwood is 4-5-2.
“It was just one of those days where we did everything right for the first two-thirds of the field but couldn’t finish,” Panther coach Paige Triana said. “Some days that happens where you get great opportunity, and it just won’t go in the net.”
The Panthers held the Eagles without a shot in the first half but really didn’t get a great chance at the net except for Anna Lohman’s pair of attempts from each wing in the 11th minute.
Eastwood goalkeeper Jordan Jensen snared both attempts to keep the game scoreless. Karissa Nelson had a shot to put Eastwood on the board in the 10th minute of the second with a drive from on top but that shot was knocked away.
Adrianna Dunning had an attempt from 25 yards out that was online but over the crossbar with 27 to go. Delta’s best chance came halfway through the second.
Skylar Boulton got loose on the right of the net and hammered a shot that looked to be on target until it rattled off the post.
Dunning, then Abbey Todd, had back-to-back attempts late in the match with Jensen batting away both shots. Delta had 13 shots in the game to five for the Eagles.