“The first two games we just thought we’re Byron-Bergen and we can win just by stepping off the bus,” Bees girls’ soccer head coach Wayne Hill said. “We haven’t played that way since then.”
The Bees extended their winning streak to 14 consecutive games with a convincing 4-1 victory over Kendall in the final regular season game.
Junior Makenzie Muoio began the scoring for the Bees in the 14th minute taking a pass through the defense by Jeanne Denson on the right wing and finding the far upper corner of the net for a 1-0 lead.
Muoio made it 2-0 at 36:54 after taking a through-pass from Kelsey Maurer and putting the ball inside the right post. That marked her tenth goal of the season giving the Bees four players with ten or more with Miriam Tardy, Kelsey Fuller and Kelsey Maurer.
Just 93 seconds later, Kendall closed to within a goal of the lead as junior Taylor ReQua pounded her direct kick from 23-yards out into the lower left corner of the net to close the Eagles to 2-1 at halftime.
Byron-Bergen regained their two-goal cushion just three minutes into the second half as the team’s leader in assists, Leah Thompson, passed the ball from midfield up to Fuller, who scored her 13th goal of the campaign.
Kendall threatened in the 55th minute as freshman Hailee Mitchell hit the crossbar.
The Bees then put the game out of reach at 59:04 as Maurer gathered the ball in the box, one-stepped around the defense and rifled her shot into the back of the net to make it 4-1.
“We possess the ball and pass with a purpose,” Hill said.
With some teams having one game remaining in their regular season schedules, the Bees could be anywhere from a two seed to a four-seed for the upcoming Section V playoffs. Addison appears to have locked up the top seed in Class C1 and the Bees are awaiting results from Gananda and Bloomfield, which will determine their final seeding.
The Bees finished the regular season having outscored their opponents 64-8 over 16 games and shutout their opposition in 11 of the 14 wins.
