Garcia nets two goals to up season tally to seven in GHS field
hockey’s 3-0 road victory
CARMEL – Senior Maday Garcia netted two first-half goals and teammate Amanda Cooper added a second-half strike to lead the Gilroy High field hockey team in Monday’s 3-0 road victory.
“I thought she was going to get a hat trick,” said head coach Adam Gemar of the team’s leading scorer with seven goals this season. “She always has a chance.”
The Lady Mustangs (7-1-1) were coming off a 1-1 tie against Monterey and now prepare for Thursday’s first-place showdown with Robert Louis Stevenson at 3:30 p.m. in Gilroy.
“It was a bounce-back game,” Gemar said. “The field was in pretty bad shape. We almost had to change some tactical play because the girls couldn’t dribble up the field.”
Garcia got the right bounce twice in the opening half – scoring off feeds from Selida Banuelas on the first and then a combination of Meg Perkins and Karlie Sandoval on the second.
Cooper’s clincher in the second half was set up by the freshmen tandem of Erin Magill and Stephanie Glenn.
“Jessica Sandoval and Tracy Link sent some good right crosses through the circle,” Gemar said. “It was hard to score because of the bouncey field and the fact that they stacked all 11 players in the circle. They were very defensive minded.”
Not much of an offense was mounted by Carmel with all of its players back on defense – manning the goal.
Senior Cydney Fong was called up from the junior varsity for her first action. The stick of the game was handed to Perkins for her steady play throughout the victory, while Crystal Quintanar had another stand-out outing.
