Quick Stick: Week 2 girls soccer top 10

Padua vs Smyrna girls soccer, photo courtesy of Padua AthleticsThe weather doesn’t look good again this week but the good news is there are only 5 matches on the schedule this week as most schools are on their holiday break.

 

The beauty of soccer is sometimes the final score doesn’t  tell the whole story.  The No. 3 Quakers played Wilmington Christian last week and fell 1-0 in the match where they outshot them 16-2.  The Quakers also had a 10-0 advantage on corner kicks. Sophomore Leah Matthews had 16 saves including a bunch of 10 bell saves.  Matthew’s had 24 saves against ranked teams last week. 

 

The Saint Mark’s Spartans beat Appoquinimink 2-1 last week in a battle of No. 2 teams.  The Division 2 No. 2 Spartans scored a goal in the first half to take a 1-0 lead into intermission over Division 1 No. 2 Appoquinimink.  Both teams scored in the second half as the Spartans held on for the key non conference win. 

 

Here is the week 2 Delaware Live Rankings after the second  week of competition.  A light schedule this week.

 

Division 1

No. 1 Middletown (3-0)(LW No, 1)  The defending champs went 2-0 last week with a 7-0 win over Odessa and a 5-0 win over then No. 3 Smyrna.  

 

No. 2 Appoquinimink (3-1)(LW No. 2)  The Jags went 1-1 last week with a 2-1 loss against Division 2 No. 2 Saint Mark’s and a win over Mount Pleasant.  

 

No.3 Wilmington Charter (3-1)(LW No. 4) The Force defeated Division 2 No. 5 DMA 1-0 last week.  

 

No.4 Polytech (3-0-1)(LW No. 5) The Panthers defeated Dover and Red Lion last week.  

 

No. 5 Sussex Tech (3-0-1)(LW Unranked) The Ravens went 2-0 last week with a 3-2 win over then No. 8 Cape Henlopen and a 1-0 win over Milford.  

 

No. 6 Smyrna (1-2)(LW No. 3) The Eagles went 1-1 last week with a 3-1 win over Cape Henlopen and a 5-0 loss to No. 1 Middletown.

 

No. 7 Padua (0-2)(LW No. 7)  The Pandas got in the win column with a 4-3 win over Sanford last week. 

 

No. 8 Odessa (2-1-1)(LW No. 6)  The Ducks went 1-1 last week with a win over Odyssey Charter and a loss to No. 1 Middletown.

 

No. 9 Delcastle (2-1)(LW No. 9)   The Cougars won over Mckean last week.

 

No. 10 Caesar Rodney (3-1)(LW Unranked)  The Riders beat Sussex Central and Lake Forrest last week.

 

Division 2

No. 1 Caravel (3-0)(LW No.1)   The Bucs defeated St Andrew’s and Newark Charter ;ast week  Both were by 1-0 scores.

 

No. 2 Saint Mark’s (2-0)(LW No. 2)   The Spartans defeated Division 1 No. 2 Appoquinimink 2-1 last week.

 

No. 3 Archmere (2-0)(LW No. 4) The Auks defeated Newark Charter 2-0,

 

No. 4 Sussex Academy (2-0)(LW No. 6) The Seahawks defeated Laurel in a Henlopen South conference match,

 

No. 5 DMA (2-1)(LW No. 5)  The Seahawks picked up a win over Red Lion and lost 1-0 to Division 1 No. 4t Wilmington Charter..

 

No. 6 Indian River (1-0-1)(LW No. 7)  The Indians defeated then No. 10 Delmar 1-0 in a Henlopen South Conference match. 

 

No. 7 Friends (1-0)(LW No. 3)  The Quakers lost 1-0 to Wilmington Christian last week. They host St Andrew’s on Tuesday and Tatnall on Thursday. 

 

No. 8 Conrad (3-1)(LW No. 9) The Red Wolves picked up a 2-1 win over Wilmington.Christian and a 9-0 win over St Elizabeth’s.   

 

No. 9 Newark Charter (1-2)(LW No. 8) The Patriots lost 2-0 to No. 3 Archmere and 1-0 to No..1 Caravel.  

No. 10 Wilmington Christian (2-1)(LW Unrank)  The Warriors enter the top 10 after splitting a pair of games to rank teams.  They lost to the No. 8  Red Wolves 2-1 and beat then No. 3 Friends 1-0.