It was a combined senior day for both the boys and girl’s soccer teams at Holley and both sent clear messages that they will be a force in the Section V playoffs beginning in the coming week.
The boys defeated Kendall 6-1 and control their own destiny with two games remaining in the regular season. They will likely be a four or five seed for the Section V playoffs and have found their offense of late scoring a combined 15 goals over a three-game span down the stretch.
The girls, locked into a fourth seed for the upcoming playoffs in Class C2, played two-time defending New York State champ Wheatland-Chili to a 0-0 draw at halftime before falling 3-0 to end their nine-game unbeaten streak.
The Hawks proved they could play with the previously unbeaten in league play Wildcats as they controlled play through much of the first half after senior goalkeeper Sarah Klatt made a key save in the 23rd minute.
Keeping the ball largely in the offensive third, Holley had a glorious scoring chance in the 29th minute as sophomore Kayleigh Neale put a perfect corner kick to the far post, but her teammates just missed the tap-in opportunity.
Junior and second leading scorer Olivia Radford had two scoring chances several minutes later, but her shot from 12 feet out was stopped by the Wildcat goalkeeper and a second one minute later was tipped just wide of the post.
Wheatland-Chili scored off the rush in the 52nd, 69th and 76th minutes to make the game not appear to be as close as it really was.
