The girls soccer playoff games will be on Friday, Oct. 25 and the quarterfinal round on Tuesday, Oct. 29 for the Eastern Maine Tournament.
The C-D semifinals for girls and boys will be played on Friday, Nov. 1, with all the regional finals on Wednesday, Nov. 6. The Class A and Class D state finals are Saturday, Nov. 9 at McMann Field in Bath, while the Class B-C state games will be played Nov. 9 at Hampden Academy.
If there is a conflict with potential SATs, the game on Friday, Oct. 25 will be moved to Saturday, Oct. 26 and the Friday, Nov. 1 game to Saturday, Nov. 2 by mutual agreement.
As of Tuesday, the Houlton girls are No. 3 in the Class C standings, with a 3-2-2 record. They trail No. 1 Fort Kent, 5-1-3 and No. 2 Orono, 6-0-1.
The top 11 teams qualify for the tournament, include: No. 4, Madawaska, 5-3-1; No. 5 Dexter, 4-1-2; No. 6 Sumner, 5-1; No. 7 George Stevens Academy, 3-4-1; No. 8, Central, 4-2-1; No. 9, Washington Academy, 4-4; No. 10, Calais, 4-0; and No. 11, Bucksport, 1-3-3..
In Class D, Washburn sits atop the class with a 10-1 record, while Ashland is second at 7-1; No. 3, Fort Fairfield, 8-2; No. 4, Van Buren, 5-5; No. 5, PVHS, 7-0; No. 6, Easton, 5-6; No. 7, CAHS, 4-5; No. 8, Schenck, 6-2; No. 9, Shead, 3-2; No. 10, East Grand, 1-5-1; No. 11 Southern Aroostook, 4-3; No. 12 Limestone/MSSM, 2-6; No. 13, Wisdom, 2-7.
Finishing outside of the qualifying teams at this time are No. 14 Hodgdon, 1-7-2 and No. 18, Katahdin, 0-6-2.
Game results from this last week are as follows:
Ashland 5, SACS 0 — The Lady Warriors were overpowered on Monday by visiting Ashland behind Marissa Chase’s two goals; Lee Ann McNally, Ally Beaulier and Chelsea Vaillaincourt’s single tallies.
Woodland 2, East Grand 1 — It was a close game Monday in Baileyville as the teams played a scoreless first half.
The Dragons struck for two second-half goals by Courtney James and Nicole Hanson, with assists to Darrean Thornton and Kasey Grass, respectively.
For East Grand, Hayleigh Shay scored off a corner kick. Goalie Chelsea Winiarski blocked 11 of 17 shots, while Woodland’s Julia Sprague stopped 12 of 15 shots faced.
Houlton 0, Fort Kent 0 (2 OT) — Though Houlton had plenty of chances in last Friday night’s game to score, they came away empty.
Fort Kent keeper Alexa Pelletier stopped 17 of 27 shots, while Houlton’s Tanika Toby preserved the shutout with seven saves on 10 shots.
Katahdin 0, Ashland 8 — Marissa Chase scored two goals to lead the Hornets by the Cougars in last Thursday’s action in Stacyville.
Georgia Landry and Sophie Vetter combined in goal to block 11 of 28 shots faced.
Katahdin played with 10 players due to a second half red card. A Katahdin player used her hands to stop a goal.
According to coach Lisa Timberlake, “Second string goalie, Georgia Landry started the game for Katahdin filling in for the injured Courtney Stevens. After Georgia was injured, Sophie Vetter filled in at goalie never having played the position before and did an outstanding job.”
For Ashland, Macie Bellanceau was a perfect two saves on two shots.
Southern Aroostook 2, East Grand 1 — Last Thursday in Danforth, the Lady Warriors’ Lilly Leavitt scored twice, including the game-winner, to defeat East Grand.
Sarah Stoddard netted East Grand’s lone tally.
Southern Aroostook is 4-3 and East Grand 1-5-1.
Southern Aroostook 5, Hodgdon 3 — Kennedi Smith provided three goals for the Lady Warriors, with Chloe Raymond adding two more to defeat host Hodgdon.
Taylor Desrosiers scored twice and Jill Gough added another tally for Hodgdon.
Katahdin 0, Bangor Christian 0 (2OT) — Last Wednesday, the Katahdin girls played a makeup game against Bangor Christian in Stacyville.
The next game between the two teams is Oct. 5 in Bangor, which is a change in the schedule.
“This game proved to be a strong match as the game was scoreless through two overtime periods,” said Katahdin coach Lisa Timberlake.
Contributing to the shutout in goal for Katahdin was freshman Landry who stepped in a few games ago to replace the injured Courtney Stevens, while senior Margaret McDonald guarded the posts for Bangor Christian. Both goalies had 22 saves.
Freshman, Rylee Fitzpatrick, had a strong game as sweeper, said Timberlake and senior Morgan Livezy had an excellent game at midfield.
Sophomores Vetter and Stevens each contributed offensively, while playing hard for the Patriots were sophomore Lindsay Turtlott and senior Katelyn Downs, said coach Timberlake.
Katahdin 1, Schenck 3 — The score was 1-0 at halftime with Schenck leading before they scored a second-half goal.
The Lady Cougars kept the game interesting, scoring shortly after Schenck in the second half to trail 2-1.
Schenck added an insurance goal near the end of the game.
“We had some opportunities to tie, but unfortunately just missed,” said coach Timberlake.
Bailee Moody-Kay was the lone scorer for Katahdin, while goalie Landry had 27 saves.
For Schenck, Nicole Chasse, Morgan Thompson and Olivia Lewis all scored. Keeper Taylor McLaughlin made eight saves.
