Girls soccer notebook: Auchmuty leads Grove past Ada

COLUMBUS GROVE — Lauryn Auchmuty, the recently named unanimous player of the year in the Northwest Conference, celebrated that accomplishment on Tuesday night with a hat trick, leading to Columbus Grove’s 6-0 opening-round win over Ada.

Columbus Grove (15-1-2) scored three times in each half to eliminate Ada and move on to a district semifinal matchup next week with Mansfield Christian, a team that was victorious over Ashland Crestview 7-0 in its sectional final.

The game is set to kick off at 5 p.m. on Monday at Bluffton’s Steinmetz Field.

Ada ended its season with a record of 10-8-0.

On Tuesday, Auchmuy netted the game’s first two goals within seven minutes of one another, the first at the 28:59 mark after receiving a pinpoint pass from Ella Dotson and the second on a chip shot over the head of Ada keeper Emily Gibson with 22:04 left in the half.

Columbus Grove fired 15 shots on goal, nine of which were saved by Gibson.

Ada had just four shots on goal, all saved by Columbus Grove keeper Erianne Heffner.

In the second half, Auchmuty traded places with Dotson, serving a perfectly placed pass into the center of the box which Dotson sent into the back of the net with 36:50 left.

Auchmuty proceeded to sink a left-footed kick at the 31:04 mark to complete the hat trick and Lauryn Halker scored Columbus Grove’s sixth goal just before the final whistle with 3:50 left.

Kenton falls to Bryan

BRYAN — In just under 30 seconds, Kenton grabbed a 2-0 lead over Bryan on Wednesday night midway through the first half of its district quarterfinal matchup, and the Golden Bears wanted to tie it before the break.

They did just that.

Macy Burton scored with 17 seconds left in the first half to make it 2-2 while an Ava Zimmerman goal late in the second half gave Bryan a 3-2 win over the Wildcats at Golden Bear Stadium in Bryan.

“Once they scored that second goal, all I thought was, ‘We need to score two before the half. If we score two before the half, we can win and we have it in the bag,’” said Burton, a senior captain who was battling illness on Wednesday. “I think it really proved that when we work together as a team, great things happen. We score two goals in like 10 minutes. And we definitely had a lot of possession, so it wasn’t too big of a worry.”

Those two scary goals happened in quick succession.

The first came off a Kinze Sprang free kick. Sprang fired her free kick from the right side towards Bryan goalkeeper Mylie Vollmer, who couldn’t corral it on the left side.

Kenton’s Emma Hougendobler was right there for the loose ball and tapped it in to give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead with 19:05 left in the first half.

Ellie Minter, a freshman forward for the Wildcats, then added to her team’s lead by winning the ball away from Bryan and firing a shot almost directly from the left side, which bounced off a diving Vollmer and into the net to make it 2-0 Kenton with 18:36 remaining in the first half.

“Bryan’s a very good team and we know that they play very good defense — they haven’t allowed very many goals this year (20 entering Wednesday),” Kenton coach Toby Brown said. “So we talked about needing to capitalize on any of the chances that we do get, because we knew it would be limited.”

Goal scorers

Several area girls soccer players netted a goal in recent games:

• Lauryn Auchmuty (6), Jake Roeder (2), Ruth Myers, Emerson Halker, Ella Dotson, Devanie Pingle, Karsyn Garmatter and Lainey Zarse scored for Columbus Grove in a 15-0 win over LCC.

• Kyah Kimmet scored for Delphos Jefferson in a 1-0 win over Fort Jennings.

• Phoebe Edwards-Leeper, Avery Ulrey and Willow Derstine score for Bluffton in a 3-1 win over Allen East.

• Allie Kuhlman and Alex Gardner scored for Kalida in a 2-0 win over Van Buren.

• Makenzie Shock (4), Maeci Dockery (2), Ava Sheeter and Adrianna Jones scored for Continental in an 8-0 win over Northwood.

• Addi Rex (3), McKenna Okief (2), Hayden O’Donnell (2), Anna Rasor, Hailey Hale, Hailey Core, Madi Leindecker and Alycen Stumbaugh scored for Bath in a 14-0 win over Van Wert.

• Sophia Menker, Kendal Davis, Kelly Holsinger and Claire Turner scored for St. Marys in a 4-0 win over Napoleon.

• Rilynn Jones of Allen East scored in a 3-1 loss to Bluffton.

GIRLS SOCCER RESULTS AND SCHEDULE

Saturday, Oct. 12

Columbus Grove 15, LCC 0

Elida 2, Upper Sandusky 0

Shawnee 1, Anna 1

Bryan 5, Continental 0

Tuesday, Oct. 15

D-V District Quarterfinal at Delphos Jefferson

Delphos Jefferson 1, Fort Jennings 0

D-V District Quarterfinal at Coldwater

Coldwater 8, LCC 0

D-V District Quarterfinal at Bluffton

Bluffton 3, Allen East 1

D-V District Quarterfinal at Kalida

Kalida 2, Van Buren 0

D-V District Quarterfinal at Continental

Continental 8, Northwood 0

D-V District Quarterfinal at Miller City

Miller City 8, Huron 0

D-V District Quarterfinal at Spencerville

Spencerville 2, Crestview 1

D-V District Quarterfinal at Delphos St. John’s

Delphos St. John’s 3, Ottoville 2

Thursday, Oct. 16

D-IV District Quarterfinal at Bath

Bath 14, Van Wert 0

D-IV District Quarterfinal at St. Marys

St. Marys 4, Napoleon 0

D-III District Quarterfinal at Wapakoneta

Wapakoneta 2, Defiance 0

D-III District Quarterfinal at Elida

Elida 7, Lima Senior 0

D-III District Quarterfinal at Celina

Celina 8, Tiffin Columbian 0

Monday, Oct. 21

D-V District Semifinals at Findlay

Elmore Woodmore vs Kalida, 5 p.m.

Continental vs Miller City, 7:15 p.m.

D-V District Semifinals at Bluffton

Columbus Grove vs Mansfield-Christian, 5 p.m.

Bluffton vs Riverdale, 7:15 p.m.

D-V District Semifinals at Ottoville

Delphos St. John’s vs Delphos Jefferson, 5 p.m

Coldwater vs Spencerville, 7:15 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 23

D-III District Semifinals at Elida

Shawnee vs Wapakoneta, 5 p.m.

Elida at Celina, 7:15 p.m.

D-IV District Semifinals at Ottawa-Glandorf

Ottawa-Glandorf vs Bryan, 5 p.m.

Bath vs St. Marys, 7:15 p.m.