By Chris LaClair
Eagle Times Sports Editor
Stevens High School girls’ varsity team scored early and often against Berlin High School to help Tim St Pierre earn his career 250th win as a soccer coach.
The Cardinals defeated the Mountaineers 6-0 in their home and season opener at Monadnock Park.
Senior Cardinal striker Kiley Bundy opened the season up with an early goal to put them ahead 1-0. She then netted a second goal in the first half before finishing the game with a hat trick (3 goals scored).
Maddy Minckler, Kaiya Richard and Addison Derosier all added a goal apiece.
Freshman Maddy Chambers, who filled in at center back due to injuries, played her first varsity game as a freshman. “I was a little nervous, but I think everyone was as it was the first game of the season, and we all want to start off well.” Chambers said. “I think as a team, we played amazing tonight, and it was a good win to start the season.”
“With so many different faces and so many young kids I probably should have expected it to be slow and sluggish, but I didn’t so it was a little bit off the pace of where we wanted to be.” Tim St Pierre said. “At the end of the day we have really good players, and we will win a lot of games; we just want to judge it by how we play and not by the final score.”
“Today was not our best effort soccer wise, energy wise the kids worked hard I take nothing away from them, but they just worked hard in the wrong directions sometimes.
Stevens (1-0) will travel to Kearsarge (1-0) today to face the Cougars with a 4:30 p.m. start time.
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