Not their day

Pennsville soccer falls 1-0 on a deflected goal; includes scores and details from Tuesday’s Salem County sports action

BOYS SOCCER
Glassboro 1, Pennsville 0
Schalick 7, Clayton 1
Penns Grove at Wildwood, canceled
Overbrook at Salem

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

PENNSVILLE – Derek Foglein knew from Pennsville’s experience in the Pitman summer league Tuesday’s match with Glassboro was going to be a tight battle. On another day it might have come out differently, but on this day it went the other way.

The teams battled tightly all game, but Glassboro cashed in on a flukey goal late in the first half and held off Foglein’s Eagles 1-0 for its first win of the season.

“We had seen these guys in the championship game of the summer league and it was a tight game, too, so we knew it was going to be tight and there was gonna be a lot of speed both ways,” the Pennsville coach said. “You could’ve played that game 100 times and 50 times it would’ve went our way and 50 times it would’ve went theirs.

“We talked about it at halftime, too, that sometimes soccer is not a game that cares about your feelings. It just doesn’t. I don’t think we deserved to lose that game, but I guess today we were supposed to lose that game.”

If not for an odd deflection, it might have gone the other way.

Mohammad Naib Khil scored the only goal of the match with 5:58 left in the first half on a shot that deflected off a Pennsville defender.

The Bulldogs’ sophomore midfielder got the ball in the middle of the box off a Lucas Kudless corner kick and fired straight on at the net. Stevie Fatcher, the Eagles’ strongest defender, stepped in to clear as he’s done hundreds of times in his career, but this time the ball glanced off “the wrong part” of his knee and instead of carrying away from the goal deflected just inside the left post.

“It felt like the heart and soul of the game just got ripped out,” Fatcher said. “We still battled (after that) but I felt like it just went down after that.”

The Eagles (2-2) had two good chances to score earlier in the half. They thought they had a goal 10 minutes into the match that was cleared off the line and a couple later Ugur Elmali had a shot hit the left post and carom into the keeper’s arms.

Glassboro (1-2-1) appeared to have the best of it in the second half, although the Eagles turned up the heat in the final five minutes without getting the equalizer. Pennsville is now 5-6 in 1-0 games and 9-16 in one-goal games since 2020. Glassboro came into the game with two one-goal losses and a tie.

“I don’t know if it was necessarily a lack of attacking (in the second half), I just think it was a lack of an execution,” Foglein said. “We shifted the bodies forward, we had the talent in the front of the field where we normally do, we couldn’t find that last little pass to get us into (the right) places.”

SCHALICK 7, CLAYTON 1: The Clippers scored five minutes into the battle of unbeaten cross-division co-leaders, then it was all Schalick. Seven players scored goals for the Cougars (3-0-1): Ryan Loper, Luke Price, Connor Jackson, Steve Chomo, Jake Sepers, Marco Spinnato and Tyler Vanlier. The goals by freshmen Loper, Sepers and Manlier were the first of their careers.

“It’s great that we are trusting each other and playing unselfish soccer,” Cougars coach Joe Mannella said.

GIRLS SOCCER
Gloucester Catholic 3, Pennsville 2
Overbrook 7, Salem 1
Wildwood 7, Penns Grove 0
Woodstown 6, Salem Tech 0

WOODSTOWN 6, SALEM TECH 0: Six different players scored goals in the Wolverines’ third straight victory: Emma Perry, Gina Murray, Hailey Kucharczuk, Kyia Leyman, Genevieve Flynn and Krysten Dussault. For Leyman, Flynn and Dussault, it was their first career goals. The Wolverines (3-1) have outscored their opponents 20-2 since dropping their season opener.

GLOUCESTER CATHOLIC 3, PENNSVILLE 2: Alexa Battaglia scored two goals for the winners. Reagan Wariwanchik and Sloan Marquette scored Pennsville’s goals.

WILDWOOD 7, PENNS GROVE 0: Aubrey Bradway scored three goals and had two assists. Nyara Alves had two goals. The Red Devils (0-3) are still looking for their first goal of the season.

OVERBROOK 7, SALEM 1: Gianna Simon had a hat trick and Leiani Knight had two for Overbrook. Isla Bohn scored Salem’s goal in the second half.

FIELD HOCKEY
CAMDEN CATHOLIC 9, SCHALICK 1: The Irish (3-0), who’ve scored 29 goals in three games, jumped on the Cougars (3-2) with five in the first quarter; they took 39 shots in the game. Sophia Stazi had four goals in the game and Savannah Freeland scored three. Phoebe Alward scored Schalick’s goal in the first quarter on an assist from Luci Virga. The nine goals were the most Schalick has allowed since an 8-0 loss at Shore in the 2011 Group I final.

GIRLS TENNIS
WOODSTOWN 3, AUDUBON 2
Nathalie Neron (WO) def. Helena Kuchmek, 6-1, 6-1
Alyssa Berry (WO) def. Sophia Tessitore, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4
Isabella Lamancusa (A) def. Noelle Neron, 6-3, 6-1
Bridget Mattson-Finola Witherington (A) def. Emilee Kehr-Madison LaPalomento, 6-2, 6-2
Emma West-Angelina Lindenmuth (WO) def. Bea Herman-Yesica Palillero, 6-4, 6-2
Records: Woodstown 5-2, Audubon 4-1.

HADDON HEIGHTS 4, SCHALICK 1
Miya Watkins (S) def. Ellie Mazzucco, 6-4, 3-6, 11-9
Sophia Acute (H) def. Annmarie Podehl, 6-3, 7-6 (7-1)
Nora Miller (H) def. Macy Clow, 6-4, 6-0
Ellie Clapper-Molly Walker (H) def. Olivia Lunemann-Sebrina Bradford, 6-1, 6-3
Luca Durand-Erin Lewandowski (H) def. Sammi Twigg-Jasmine Hunt, 6-1, 6-3
Records: Haddon Heights 7-1, Schalick 3-2.

CROSS COUNTRY
SALEM TECH BATCH MEET
BOYS TOP 15: Matthew Littlehales, Delsea 16:09.03; Zacchaeus Harrington, Glassboro 16:11.44; Joseph Saicic, Glassboro 16:24.73; Jaeden Wesley, Glassboro 16:29.27; Jacob Marino, Woodstown 16:39.00; Michael Beaver, Kingsway 16:42.21; Karson Chew, Woodstown 16:54.35; David Farrell, Woodstown 16:57.10; Wyatt Evans, GCIT 17:04.54; Trevor Szilier, Washington Twp. 17:10.09; Dominic Burgio, Williamstown 17:17.70; Logan Pavelik, Williamstown 17:19.83; Gavin Rakitis, Glassboro 17:21.15; Payton Veilleux, Kingsway 17:21.33; Oluwanifemi Fadulu, Highland 17:22.80.
Schalick: 20. Chase Riley 17:32.53; Salem Tech: 50. Levi Seals 18:47.74; Salem: 62. Gavin Cronrath 19:16.25; Pennsville: 125. Logan Cowperthwait 22:00.22.

GIRLS TOP 15: Sophia Aldridge, Williamstown 18:55.49; Aubrey Bishop, Kingsway 19:15.01; Lyana Gutierrez, Highland 20:24.27; Yazmire Bonhomme, Williamstown 20:33.39; Abby Marino, Woodstown 20:36.86; Toni-Loren Powell, Highland 20:40.90; Brooke Mashburn, Delsea 20:51.53; Julia Burgio, Williamstown 21:00.65; Jordan Moczydlowski, GCIT 21:01.61; Julia Blanchard, Washington Twp. 21:28.63; Anabel Schaal, Woodstown 21:33.64; Isabella Moran, Delsea 21:38.72; Ava Buchanan, Kingsway 21:44.53; Allison Reinierz, Washington Twp. 21:51.82; Katelyn Gallinaro, Kingsway 21:56.76.
Schalick: 18. Helen Lillia 22:11.39; Pennsville: 23. Sawyer Slad 22:56.05; Salem Tech: 77. Paityn Harrington 27:24.53