Rhode Island High School
Girls' Soccer
Division I
1997

Player of the Year; Oct 30, 1997 (Pre-Playoffs)
Lauren Testa - Tremendous defensive player for South
Kingstown. Has all the tools. Wins 99.9% of her "battles" and gets the
ball moving in the right direction. Communicates well. Always assigned
to guard the opponent's offensive threat.
Morgan Page - The Westerly senior led the league in
scoring. (What would she have done on a better team?) 
Tremendous athlete, always gives 100%. Can go from "0 to 60" in 2.9
seconds. A force to be reckoned with.
Week #8+; Oct 28, 1997
Katie Parkinson / Ellen Histen - The two SK Sophomores
were instrumental in salvaging the second half of the season.
Parkinson had three goals in the extended week, with the game winner
in both the Toll Gate and Barrington games. - It's hard to picture
knocking Barrington from the top rung and securing home field
advantage in the playoffs without Histen's presence. Her speed was a
key ingredient in both of South's goals against Barrington.
Week #7; Oct 18, 1997
Christine Kane - East Greenwich continues to
maintain their top spot thanks to the Grand Old Lady of high school
mid-fielders. Kane, omnipresent, had two assists as she led East
Greenwich over South. She also probably showed up for the North
Kingstown game. She hopes to join the Air Force after graduation.
Week #6; Oct 11, 1997
Chris Sipala - The North Kingstown senior scored a
goal in all three North Kingstown victories this past week. North is
coming on strong as they make a late season run for one of the playoff
spots.
Week #5; Oct 04, 1997
Lauren Ciccone, Ali Peake ... and the rest of the
East Greenwich Avengers for a great week, with two more wins,
solidifying their position atop the league. Peake, a junior, had two
goals in the Pilgrim win. Ciccone, a freshman, had two in the North
Kingstown win. 
Morgan Page - The Westerly senior makes her second
appearance. Westerly had a great week, moving into the top six with
two wins. The senior had two goals in each win.

Week #4+; Sep 27, 1997
Kate Paiva - Mount Hope went 3-0 for the week and
their sensational forward, Kate Paiva, had at least one goal in each
victory - a total of five goals for the week.
Week #3; Sep 20, 1997
Morgan Page - Westerly's speedy forward actually
scored 4 goals in one game (that's not possible is it? - must be a
misprint; SCFun will give her the $50 award anyways) as Westerly
beat Toll Gate 4-2.
Week #2; Sep 13, 1997
Kim Lanzire - The Mount Hope senior had a great
week, scoring three goals in a 5-0 victory over Smithfield and two
goals in a 3-0 victory over Smithfield. 
Week #1; Sep 06, 1997
Katie Purcell, Gretchen Thies ... and all the other
Barrington players for jumping out to a 2-0 record with two impressive
shutouts over NK (2-0) and Mt. Hope (7-0).

Oct 30, 1997 (Game #Q1): Mount Hope 2, Pilgrim 1

    Pilgrim               0  1 --  1
    Mount Hope            2  0 --  2
    Scoring - MH Kim Lanzire (Sa);
              MH Kate Paiva (Alexis Bouchard);
              PI DiSano.
    Shots on Goal - PI __; MH __. 
    Winning Goal - MH Paiva. 
    Saves - PI Angelone 14; MH Medeiros 7. 
    Back Saves - _. 
    Corner Kicks - PI _; MH _. 
    Fouls - _. Yellow Cards - _. 
    Attendance - _.

Nov 02, 1997 South Kingstown 3, North Kingstown 1

    North Kingstown       1  0 --  1
    South Kingstown       2  1 --  3
    Scoring - SK Katie Parkinson (Katie Dougan) (14:58); 
              NK Ashley Poland (31:40);
              SK Katie Parkinson (37:01);
              SK Bethany Moore (Alesia Gray) (68:40).
    Shots on Goal - NK ~10; SK ~13. 
    Winning Goal - SK Katie Parkinson.
    Saves - NK Medinyan 8; SK Stanhope 8.    
    Back Saves - _. 
    Corner Kicks - NK 8; SK 2. 
    Fouls - _. Yellow Cards - _. 
    Attendance - 298.

Nov 04, 1997 (Game #S1): South Kingstown 2, East Greenwich 1

    South Kingstown       2  0 --  2
    East Greenwich        0  1 --  1
    Scoring - SK Katie Parkinson (Liz Horton) (28:00);
              SK Katie Parkinson (Julie Cantagallo) (38:00);   
              EG-PK Kerri Vetovis (64:00). 
    Shots on Goal - SK ~15; EG ~12. 
    Winning Goal - SK Katie Parkinson.
    Saves - SK Sarah Stanhope 8; EG Casie Rhodes 11.    
    Back Saves - _. 
    Corner Kicks - SK A few; EG A few. 
    Fouls - _. Yellow Cards - _. 
    Attendance - 273.

Nov 04, 1997 (Game #S2): Mount Hope 2 (3-2), Barrington 1

    Mount Hope            1  0 --  0 0 (1,1,1,0,X) or (1,1,0,1,0) -- 2
    Barrington            0  0 --  0 0 (0,0,1,1,0)    (0,0,1,1,0) -- 1
    Scoring - MH Kim Lanzire (Erika Saviano) (~30:00);
              BA-PK Carly Williamson (43:00);
              Shootout - MH Lanzire, Jordan Shireman, Jen Sa;
                         BA Jessica Rasmussen, Courtney Frye. 
    Shots on Goal - MH __; BA __. 
    Winning Goal - MH Jen Sa.   
    Saves - MH Medeiros 10; BA Broomhead 10.
    Back Saves - _. 
    Corner Kicks - MH _; BA _. 
    Fouls - _. Yellow Cards - _. 
    Attendance - 350.

Huskies, Rebels post 2-1 wins in semis
Mt. Hope back in finals with shootout victory over Barrington
EAST PROVIDENCE - South Kingstown and Mt. Hope knocked off top seeds
last night and advanced to the Division I finals.
  Mt. Hope, the defending state champion, beat second-place
Barrington, 2-1, in a shootout that featured some great goaltending
from sophomore Carmen Medeiros in the second game of the doubleheader
at Pierce Stadium.
  South Kingstown, with two goals from sophomore Katie Parkinson,
edged regular-season champion East Greenwich, 2-1, in the opener of
the MetLife Soccer Classic.
  The Rebels and Huskies play for the state title Saturday at 6 p.m.
  Barrington had beaten the Huskies, 7-0 and 2-0 during the regular
season, and the Huskies were determined not to get beat again, said
Kim Lanzire, who gave Mt. Hope a 1-0 lead in the first half of a very
physical game between the East Bay neighbors.
  "We just played a better game than we did in the first two
meetings," Lanzire said. "We told ourselves if we didn't let them
score in the first half it would be a different game. I think they
came in thinking they were going win, beat us for the third time," she
said.
  The Eagles made it 1-1 11 minutes into the second half when a
tripping call in the area gave Carly Williamson a penalty shot.
Williamson drilled the ball into the left corner, out of Medeiros'
reach.
  Barrington lost sweeper Jessica Sultzer in the first minute of
overtime when she went down with a hip injury. She was taken to a
hospital by rescue. When play resumed, Barrington goaltender Jessica
Broomhead came up with key stops on Lanzire in the two scoreless
10-minute overtimes, sending the match to a shootout.
  It wasn't where the Huskies wanted to go, Lanzire said. "We didn't
want a shootout; we thought they were a better team than us on penalty
shots, but our keeper did an awesome job."' 
  Medeiros stopped the Eagles' first shooter, Williamson, with great
diving save, then fisted away a bullet by Joanna Principe. In the
meantime, Lanzire had given Mt. Hope the shootout lead with a shot
into the right corner, and Jordan Shireman made it 2-0 with blast to
the top of the cage.
  The Eagles got within a shot on goals by Jessica Rasmussen and
Courtney Frye. In between, Jen Sa scored for the Huskies. Medeiros
clinched the win with a save against Kristin Gladney.
  The shootouts are a guessing game, Medeiros said. "It's tough. You
pick a side, dive, and hope for the best," she said.
  In the opener, South got both goals from Parkinson, who grew up
taking shots at her sister, former All-State goalkeeper, Shelly
Parkinson.
  Shelly graduated last year, but Katie maintained the family
tradition by helping the Rebels get into their 10th championship
game. They have won four state titles, the last in 1988.
  The Rebels have been on a roll, after losing 1-0 to Westerly late
in the season. They knocked Barrington out of first place with a 2-0
win on the final day of the season, then advanced to the semifinals
with a 3-1 win over North Kingstown.
  Parkinson, who worked a lot of seasons shooting soccer balls at her
sister in the family backyard, kept the Rebels on track with
chip-shot goal at the 28-minute mark.
  Avengers sweeper Keri Vetovis had cut off South's Liz Horton in the
middle, but Horton was able to get the ball to Parkinson on the wing.
Parkinson lofted a shot just out of the reach of East Greenwich
goaltender Casie Rhodes.
  "I wasn't aiming," Parkinson said. "The ball was there and I saw
the net. It was like slow-motion. I was laying on the ground and saw
the ball go in."
  Parkinson scored what turned out to be the game-winner with only
seconds left in the half. After several players battled for the ball
at the top of the penalty area, somebody headed it toward the goal,
and Parkinson was right there to chip another one over Rhodes' head.
  The Avs, who had defeated and tied the Rebels during the regular 
season, were just outplayed in the first half, getting only a couple
of good shots at the SK goal, while the Rebels were pounding away at
Rhodes.
  The Avs made it close when sweeper Kerri Vetovis rapped in a 
penalty shot at the 64-minute mark, but couldn't come with anything
else. 
  "We were nervous; we just didn't have it tonight," EG midfielder
Christine Kane said.
  By BUD BARKER Journal-Bulletin Sports Writer

Nov 11, 1997 (Game #F1): South Kingstown 3, Mount Hope 1

    South Kingstown       0  3 --  3
    Mount Hope            1  0 --  1
    Scoring - MH Kim Lanzire (Bethany Medeiros) (26:00). 
              SK Tammy Borrelli (Ellen Histen) (44:00)
              SK Ellen Histen (53:00)
              SK Tammy Borelli (Ellen Histen) (54:00)
    Shots on Goal - SK ~15; MH ~12. 
    Winning Goal - SK Ellen Histen.
    Saves - SK Sarah Stanhope 7, MH Carmen Medeiros 6.        
    Back Saves - _. 
    Corner Kicks - SK ?; MH ?. 
    Fouls - _. Yellow Cards - _. 
    Attendance - 351.

Borrelli paces Rebels over Huskies
EAST PROVIDENCE - Last night, South Kingstown found what it had been
looking for all season - a goal-scorer.
  Senior Tammy Borrelli more than filled that role as the Rebels
scored three goals in the first 14 minutes of the second half to beat
defending champion Mt. Hope, 3-1, in the Division I championship game
of the MetLife Soccer Classic at Pierce Stadium.
  "Tammy Borrelli, she did it," said South coach Jim Kelly, whose
Rebels knocked off regular-season champion East Greenwich in the
semifinals. "The team that should have been here, is here."
  Borrelli tied the match at 1-1 when she took a a header from Ellen
Histen passed and beat past Mt. Hope goaltender Carmen Medeiros. The
goal was set up by Chelsea Wetherell's throw-in.
  Histen put the Rebels in front with a spectacular goal nine minutes
later. The South speedster, who splits playing time with forward Katie
Parkinson, spun a Mt. Hope defender around in the far left corner,
then raced along the end line and beat Medeiros with a shot into the
far corner.
  One minute later, Borrelli let all the air out of the Huskies'
balloon when she came barrelling down the left wing with a pass from
Histen and unloaded a shot that found the top corner.
  Medeiros expressed the feelings of her teammates and the Mt. Hope
fans at the 17th annual MetLife Classic. She knelt on the goal line,
holding her head in her hands.
  "I had a gut feeling from the beginning of the season that we were
going to make it," Borrelli said.
  In fact, Borrelli wrote a poem before the game to convince her
teammates of her feelings. She read it to them on the bus ride from
Wakefield. The poem said it was time to show everybody what the
Rebels had.
  "Nobody thought we would be here, and we have proved everyone
wrong," Borrelli said.
  Even at halftime, when South trailed, 1-0, and the team's mood was
somber, Borrelli said the SK players vowed to come out believing in
themselves in the second half.
  "We did and it happened," she said. "When we got that third goal,
they lost their confidence and we got ours. I knew it was coming." 
  Mt. Hope coach Doug Lanzire, coaching his last game before retiring,
knew it was happening, too.
  "We just seemed to get deflated after that third goal," he said.
"There weren't enough hungry people in front of the goal."
  The fire that scorched Barrington in the semifinals wasn't there,
Lanzire said, though he didn't want to take anything awy from South
Kingstown, which won its first state title since 1983.
  "South deserves the win; they were the better team," Lanzire said.
  There was no lack of fire from the Huskies' Kim Lanzire, their
hustling power forward who put them in front at 26 minutes of the
first half. Her goal, like Histen's took some fancy footwork.
  Lanzire was surrounded in the left corner when she danced around
one, two, then three Rebels to unload a bullet at goaltender Sarah 
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"I had a gut feeling from the beginning of the season that we were
going to make it.  . . . Nobody thought we would be here, and we have
proved everyone wrong." TAMMY BORRELLI, South Kingstown player
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Stanhope from in close. Stanhope had no chance, the ball zipped into
the far corner before she could react.
  Lanzire made Stanhope come up with several other good stops, before
and after the Rebels' three-goal outburst.
  "We know Kim Lanzire is going to get one," Kelly said.
  But against a Kate Dougan-led defense that was among the best in
the league this season, Kelly doubted there would be any more.
  Histen, the MVP of the tournament, had two assists in addition to
her goal. Parkinson played another aggressive game after starring in
the Rebels' semifinal win over East Greenwich last week. Both girls
are sophomores.
  By BUD BARKER Journal-Bulletin Sports Writer

Tournament MVP: Ellen Histen, South Kingstown

All Tournament Team:
   SK - Tammy Borrelli, Katie Parkinson, Jess DiNapoli, Alesia Gray
   MH - Bethany Medeiors, Kerri Richards, Jordan Shireman
   EG - Heather Ryan, Kerri Vetovis
   BA - Carly Williamson, Courntey Frye

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