Game 9- South Mountain

Only three weeks after they had won their most significant game of the season,
the Scotch Plains Blue Sharks U12 Girls intercounty team returned to the scene of that triumph to play an even bigger game Saturday. In a near instant replay of the
4-0 triumph of October 23, the Sharks once again used two first half goals and sparkling defense and goal keeping to shutout the Mountainside Cosmos 3-0 on a cold blustery day at Sheffield School, Mountainside. The victory moves Scotch Plains into the championship game November 20 against the winner of Rahway-Clark. Mountainside dropped to 8-2-1, their only losses to Scotch Plains.

Jessica DiGiacomo, elusive again with her dribbling and passing, gave the Sharks the only goal they would need when her hard shot over a maze of players was deflected into the goal. Alyssa Young added some insurance with a hard shot from short range and in the second half, Erin Brown provided the clincher with a thundering blast from ten yards.

Melissa McKenna was once again brilliant in goal, making several diving stops and vocally leading the defense. Other contributors included Lauren Berk, Amanda Rodriguez, Jessica Feeley, Kara Gaynor, Sarah Weber, Toni Ann Capece, Lauren Buckley, Emily Cohen, Rebecca DiGiacomo, Annie Rubin, Sarah Lazarus and Desli DeMarsico.