The Allen Community College women’s soccer team shut out Central Community College in their Region VI semi-final match on Thursday afternoon, 4-0.
The Lady Red Devils (12-4; 5-1) scored a lone first half goal before exploding for three goals in the second half. Jessica Allen also netted three of Allen’s goals in the victory.
The scoring began seven minutes into the match when Jessica Allen found the back of the net on an unassisted goal for the early 1-0 advantage.
“We scored early but not as often as I’d like in the first half but it opened up things in the second half,” said Allen head coach Jeremy McGinnis. “Jess probably could have had a couple more in the first half, it’s like she hits the harder shots than the easier ones.”
Allen led Central in shots in the first half, 8-5.
Kate Giblin got the Lady Red Devils on the board 10 minutes into the second half when she took an unassisted ball inside the box for the 2-0 second half lead.
Allen’s second and third goals came with 16 and 12 minutes remaining in regulation, respectively. Both the goals were unassisted and gave Allen her 15th goal of the season and fourth multi-goal match of the year as well.
“It’s one of those things where she can strike a ball really well and anytime she has a window she can hit it from distance, she can get past people, she’s really technical and she distributes the ball well,” said McGinnis. “She definitely had a game for sure, we did a great job of feeding her the ball. They just couldn’t handle it and she got the hat trick.”
The home team got behind Allen’s three shots on goal and six total shots while Autumn Wyatt and Giblin ripped two total shots apiece.
“It’s great. It puts me in a great position to go forward and take things to the next level,” McGinnis said. “We are now at seven wins in a row so I always tell the girls ‘you want to be peaking at this time of the year’ and they’re definitely peaking and it’s looking really good.”
The Lady Red Devils led the Lady Raiders in shots, 13-7, and shots on goal, 7-4.
Allen goalkeeper Daniela Gonzalez had a good day in goal after coming up with the clean sheet and saving six Central shots on goal.
The Allen Lady Red Devils hit the road to play at Pratt on Sunday at 2 p.m.
