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Spring 2011 Championship Saturday
Saturday, May 14th
Porter-Gaud, Charleston, SC


Class AAA Girls: 10:00 AM
Cardinal Newman vs. Pinewood Prep

AAA Boys: 12:00 (noon)
Cardinal Newman vs. Pinewood Prep

A-AA Girls: 3:00
Beaufort Academy vs. Lowcountry Prep

A-AA Boys: 5:00
The King's Academy vs. Cathedral Academy

Will anyone be posting updates from these matches?

Green acres - I will be at the first two and will do my best to provide some info.

Background on Girls Match:

Piinewood and Cardinal Newman have played 5 times in the last 3 years. Pinewood won the first 4 including the 2009 and 2010 State Championship. Cardinal Newman won the only match this season 1-0 at Cardinal Newman. That game was also the championship game for the Lady Bearcat Invitational.

Last years State Championship was won by Pinewood 3-2 on a late goal by Courtney Angotti Smith (Currently a Junior). Kelsey Orvin and Megan Fish also scored - both of them are Seniors this year. Megan has signed with Central Florida and Kelsey has signed with the Air Force Academey. Chelsea Goodwin had the two goals for Cardinal Newman (I believe she has graduated).

In the 2009 State Championship Pinewood won 4-1 with Courtney Angotti Smith scoring 3 with and additional goal from Francesca Kassing (graduated). Alexa Barnes (currently a senior) scored the Goal for Cardinal Newman.

These teams know each other well and it should be a great matchup.

AAA Girls

Halftime

Cardinal Newman-0
Pinewood-0

Half time 0-0

CN had a ball off the post early. PW had one off the cross bar. Most of the game in the middle third. Except the last 2 mins - PW had a number shots and a very energetic finish to the half. Both teams were showing signs of fatigue - hot and humid! 2nd half should be interesting. Anyone's game at this point.

20 left. 0-0. CN has had more of the ball but both teams have had their chances.

1-1. Two quick goals.

2-1 Final. CN wins in the last min. Great goal.

Tough lose for Pinewood, but very similar to last years win by Pinewood. As a side note Courtney Angotti Smith recorded her 200 goal on a very nice free kick.

Up next the Boys!

"Personal accomplishments are worthless in the wake of team failure."

I beg to differ! 200 goals is an amazing accomplishment so please don't try and take that away from her!!I certainly don't see it as a team failure and I am sure the team would agree-shame on you for posting that.

I would like to know how many of the 200 were in games they won 22-0 or 17-0 in order to pad her stats. Shame on you for buying into this unsportsman like behavior. I am sure there are some Irmo kids from your team that could have those kinds of stats if allowed.

Way to go Cardinal Newman. Congratulations on a terrific year!

Kudos CN!

Fifa Star - not sure its worth responding to your question, given that you clearly have already made a judgement about Courtney's accomplishment - but for those who are interested in what she has done over the past four years, here are the details. (As a note I kept stats for Pinewood in 08,09,10, and got them from the team this year).

Courtney has scored 200 goals in 91 games for an average of 2.2 goals / game.

She has averaged 2.6 goals a game against SCISA Region II teams.

She has averaged 3.1 goals a game against the bottom three teams in Region II. (I wont list the team names - its not important - but its clear that an extra half a goal a game versus teams that she could easy notch 3 to 4 more is not padding stats) - Against the team you noted above she averaged 3.3 goals / game.

She has averaged 2.7 goals / game in the SCISA playoffs.

She has averaged 1.5 goals / game against SCHSL teams.

Some of her averages against SCHSL team:
Greenville 3.0 goals / game
Academic Magnet 1.5 goals / game
Woodruff 1.0 goal / game
Wando 1.0 goal/game

In addition she has a 1.9 goals / game average against teams from outside of SC - Including goals against some very tough teams - Lee Summit North (Mo) - nationally ranked, Battlefield High (VA) - regional ranked, St. James (KS) - regionally ranked, Frederica Academy - Georgia AA Private School state champs, Westminster Academy - Georgia AAA Private School state champs.

I wont get into the sportmenship question about some of the scores Pinewood posted earlier this year, but I will tell you that Courtney has consistently passed the ball of to other teammates in these games. Last year and again this year every single player on the Pinewood team scored - almost all of them assisted by Courtney. Anyone who knows her and her selfless style of play will celebrate her accomplishment and not look for reasons to tarnish it. With one more season to go it is quite possible that Courtney could end up in the top 5 goal scores of all time nationally.

It is a shame that some of us can't find it within ourselves to be proud of a home grown soccer talent. For those who can celebrate with her I will post a link later to a video of her last four goals and some highlights from the past four years.

Touchy..touchy..I am sure if our Irmo kids could play for 5-6 years on Varsity like some of the SCISA schools do then that would definitely be the case also. Never said anything different and wasn't putting down anyone with my comments (as it appears you were trying to do)I hardly think the majority of Courtney's goals were gotten that way. She is a solid player and has managed to put it in the back of the net come crunch time in lots of games over her career at Pinewood and elsewhere.Congratulations to the girls (and boys) at Cardinal Newman also!Very well deserved by them! My daughter has friends and has played with girls on both teams in her years of playing club soccer.

I was only saying you should not try to deflate a kid on such a milestone in her career-I don't care how you look at it. It is a huge accomplishment.

Bravo! Don't know you but I do know Courtney as she and my daughter play club ball together and I am glad you had the stats to back up my feelings on the matter.

Good luck to Pinewood next year and congratulations again to Cardinal Newman this year! 2 very good teams.

Thanks Loves to Play - now back to the main point of this thread.

CN played a great game and played to the very end. Congrats to them.

Already looking forward to next year!

Agreed.

Haha, how many club state championships has her team won? Oh yeah, 0. She is non exsistent on the club team only in the private school league. Laughable. Haha

Correct me if I am wrong but this is the high school forum-not club. And Courtney is anything but non-exsistent on the club circuit either. I am not going to lower myself to your level and continue this thread when you obviously are not interested in anything but putting her down. And it is also disturbing to me to think I may know you as you seem to know I am affiliated with Irmo.

Courtney is a class act and will do well as a senior next year and then as a player for the University of South Carolina, to which I believe she has already verbally committed. To get back to the point of the thread, today's game was well-played by two teams who know each other well, and I was impressed by the class of both teams. Congratulations to all the players, and especially the many seniors on both teams who will go on to great things in life, whether on the pitch or off.

When did this become about where your kid goes to school?

So I guess we are in agreement that 200 goals in the private school league is the same as 25 goals in a real league.

You may want to go back and read the posts again-I don't think that was said. My daughter does attend Irmo and I think your comments are a little uncalled for-especially in this thread.

Oh and lets not forget that Pinewood lost today in their State Championship. Haha

Cardinal Newman #1, Pinewood not! Go Cards!

@ FIFA Star: you are an idiot. I did not forget Cardinal Newman won. I was there. As disappointed as I was that Pinewood girls didn't win a third straight championship, I was happy for Cardinal Newman and very impressed with their grit scoring in the last minute of a match very similar (as Panther Fan noted) to last year's championship between these schools. If you enjoy calling out 16 year old girls and denigrating their accomplishments, that's certainly telling. But, then again, she will be playing DI soccer in 2012 and you will not.

I respect the player; however I will bet you she will be in the stands watching; they can only roster so many. You don't know where I am playing next year.

I may be an idiot but I know a player shut down like I saw today. The CN player that shut your player down deserves all the recognition. #8 for CN is a better player than your player. If not then why didn't Pinewood win.

See ya next year loser. Haha Actually I will probably not see you or Pinewood.

Oh yeah, Cardinal Newman IS the state champions in SCISA boys and girls soccer. I guess that makes you sick and I love that. Haha loser.

No I am 14, but pinewood still lost. How old are you?

Fifa star, your grammar is utterly disgusting.

does anybody know the score of the Beaufort Academy game?

Sorry, congratulations to Steve and the Lady Cardinals too.