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Cougars And Lady Cougars Dominate Forsyth Central
Both the Chattahoochee girls and boys soccer teams crushed Forsyth Central Tuesday night.
Both Chattahoochee girls and boys soccer teams a took care of business Tuesday night. The Lady Cougars defeated Forsyth Central 4-0, while the Cougars crushed the Bulldogs 9-0.
In the girls' game, freshman Logan Lindy scored the Lady Cougars' first goal in the first half, and both teams went into halftime with Chattahoochee leading 1-0. However, in the second half, the Lady Cougars took full control of the match.
Not even two minutes into the second period, sophomore Mandy Janowitz scored to increase Chattahoochee's lead to 2-0. A little more than a minute later, sophomore Dallas Davis scored the Lady Cougars' third goal.
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The Lady Cougars thoroughly dominated the run of play, as the Lady Bulldogs only got very few shots on goal. The Lady Cougars' final goal came off the foot of Carlie Degen, who drove through the Forsyth Central defense and shot the ball into the upper left corner of the net to complete the Lady Cougars' 4-0 win over Forsyth Central.
In the boys' game, the Cougars scored fast and in bunches as they blew out the Bulldogs 9-0. Senior Chris Ryan began the onslaught with 1:16 into the match when he took a pass from Matt Janowitz and dribbled around the Forsyth Central keeper, then tucked the ball into the net to give the Cougars a 1-0 lead.
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Exactly 56 seconds later, senior captain Tucker Coons scored off a header to increase the Cougars' lead to 2-0. With 27:14 left in the first half, Chris Ryan fed junior Kevin Hady, who promptly scored the first of his four goals to increase the lead to 3-0, and the route was on.
Chattahoochee's fourth goal came with 20:03 left in the half off the foot of Hady. Senior Mitchell Lurie passed the ball to Hady at the top of the box, where Hady sent the ball into the net for his second goal.
A few minutes later, Hady scored his third goal when senior Julian Droege crossed the ball in front of the goal, and Hady headed it into the back of the net. At that point, the Cougars went up 6-0 and took that lead into halftime.
To start the second half, Chattahoochee Head Coach Les Meenan played the back ups for the first few minutes. During that time, Chris Ryan got another assist when he fed senior Ammon Lakip the ball. Lakip then scored to increase the Cougars' lead to 7-0.
With 16:57 left in the game, Ryan got yet another assist when he made a pass to sophomore Andrew No, who tucked it pass the Forsyth Central goalkeeper to make the score 8-0.
The last goal of the game came with 9:11 left in the match when Chattahoochee goalkeeper Austin Pack, who had switched his goalie jersey for the #10 uniform, scored to complete the 9-0 romp over the Bulldogs.
"It was a good game. The boys came out and played well. We had a couple of objectives. We wanted to control possession and hang on to the ball. It was a successful night for us," Meenan said.
With the Lady Cougars' 4-0 win, they improve to 8-4 on the season and are undefeated in region play at 5-0. With their 9-0 drubbing of Forsyth Central, the Chattahoochee boys are now undefeated at 10-0-1 overall and 5-0 in region play. Both teams travel to Woodland on Friday. The Lady Cougars kick off at 6:30 p.m., and the Cougars follow at 8:30.