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Princeton falls to Alleman, creates lasting legacy · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Princeton falls to Allman, creates lasting legacy. Written by Kevin Hieronymus,
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. The Princeton girls soccer team may
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  not have won its game Saturday, but the Tigrises have
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  left their mark. The Tigrises saw their best season in
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  four years end with a four zero loss to favored
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  Alman Catholic in Saturday's class win a regional final at
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  Bryant Field. Their seventeen wins matches the most by any
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  girls team that Princeton coach David Gray has coached in
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  eight years and has put the Tigrises back on the
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  map as a team to be reckoned with and created
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  excitement in the community. As a coach, you're out in
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  the community and this year there's a lot more people
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  talking and asking questions about it. Hey, I see the
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  girls are playing well, Gray said. I think winning is
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  a part of that. You win a bunch of games,
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  but I think the way we play the game is
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  entertaining for people. Had a lot people comment how much
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  fun they had watching the girls play. It created some
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  interest in buzz. Hosting the playoffs helps and I think
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  Today was the biggest crowd we've had in a long time.
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  Princeton junior Ava Kyle enjoyed the excitement the team's performance
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  this season created in the community. We all worked really
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  hard to get some recognition for ourselves, she said. You
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  can see the stands today, they were filled. I've never
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  seen that before. It's really great to see. It was
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  so fun. We played so well this year our freshman year.
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  We knew this was a great group because we had
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  so many great runs, and we really went far this year.
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  It's really disappointing we didn't make it past regionals, but
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  we knew at the beginning of the season we'd have
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  a tough regional and need to get past them to
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  get through it. I think we played really, really hard today.
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  It was Allaman's fifth regional title in a row and
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  seventh and eighth years. The Pioneers will return home to
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  play in their own sectional, facing Monticello July second, sixteen,
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  in the second semifinal match of the night at seven
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  pm Tuesday in Molin, the Sages beat Peoria christian Ie
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  zero on Friday. Freshman Anna Meherhofer was just the ticket
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  for the Pioneers, scoring a three goal hat trick. She
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  scored just two minutes into the action and added a
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  second goal at the six twenty three mark to give
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  the Pioneers a two zero halftime lead. She completed the
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  hat trick in the second half, with Harper Healy also
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  scoring to put the match away. I'm very excited to
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  get a hat trick, Mayor Hoefer said. I think winning
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  regional brings us all together and shows how we can
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  do good things. Gray said that quick early goal by
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  Mayor Hofer really made a difference. We played hard, but
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  put ourselves in a little bit of a hole with
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  the first goal coming so quick and never really digging
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  out of that. He said. There were stretches of the
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  game I thought we were really good and put pressure
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  on them, had a few chances to score, but that's
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  a tough team. If you make mistakes, they generally make
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  you pay for them, and that's what happened. We didn't
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  have a large margin of error when we made a
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  couple of errors. Alaman dominated the play on both ends
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  with eighteen shots on goal while holding Phs to just three.
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  Ray and Kyle knew if the Tigrises wanted to win
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  their first regional in four years, they'd likely have to
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  get through Alaman. They set their sights on the Pioneers
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  as all along and were up for the challenge. When
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  the regional pairings came out early, I had a feeling
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  if we wanted the regional title, it was going to
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  have to be through them, Gray said, there's always been
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  an Alman. We kind of expected it at the beginning
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  of the season. Kyle said. Last year we got lucky
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  and got to play Mendota, and that didn't turn out
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  the way we wanted. It's disappointing, but I'm proud of
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  these girls. The Tigers' seventeen wins matches the total one
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  by Princeton's twenty to regional championship team h