The St. Patrick-St. Vincent High girls soccer team stood stunned at Dante Magnani Field after visiting St. Joe’s rallied for a 6-5 victory Tuesday night.
The Lady Bruins had a 4-0 lead at one point and scored more goals Tuesday (5) than they had in their previous five games combined. But St. Joe’s scored six of the next seven goals to escape with a stunning victory.
“They just had more heart than we did,” SPSV head coach Javier Martinez said of the Lady Pilots. “That’s the bottom line.”
SPSV (1-5, 0-4 TCAL) did whatever it wanted in the first 25 minutes. Emily Thompson recorded SPSV’s first hat trick of the season, including one goal where she bent a corner kick into the net. Skylar Jabobs added a goal and the Lady Bruins were sitting pretty up 4-0.
But St. Joe’s was resurrected with three unanswered goals to end the first half. Gracie Quintos put SPSV up 5-3 early in the second half, only to have the Lady Pilots respond with three unanswered goals, including the game winner by Elenor Seiwald in the 73rd minute. Seiwald scored four goals for St. Joe’s.
We thought we could just dominate and we lost our intensity,” Thompson said.
“We relaxed when we were up 4-0 and you can’t do that,” Martinez added. “We have to compete every minute and instead we took the rest of the night off.”
The Lady Bruins hit the road Thursday night for a TCAL game at El Cerrito.
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