The Muskie girls’ soccer team suffered a heart-breaking 1-0 loss in overtime to the Dryden Eagles in the NWOSSAA ‘AA’ final here yesterday afternoon—costing the squad a trip to the all-Ontarios in Peterborough next month.
Head coach Adam Craig said despite the loss, he was very proud of the way the team competed.
“They played really tough,” he remarked. “We had to battle through injuries. I’m very proud of the girls.”
The Muskies were without key players Katie McTavish and Paula Vangel for the final. Both missed the game due to injuries suffered during the semi-final match earlier yesterday against the Kenora Broncos.
Craig said the injuries proved too much to overcome.
“We don’t have the biggest bench to begin with and when you take our top goal scorer out of the equation, it means someone has to fill in,” he noted. “They [the bench players] did a great job of filling in, but unfortunately we couldn’t find the back of the net.”
Muskie captain Natalie Cain said the loss was especially hard to swallow given how hard the team
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