Martlets Defeat Berkshire

This Saturday, the Westminster Girls Varsity soccer team celebrated and thanked their Sixth Formers with a special senior day against the Bears of Berkshire. Before taking the field, the Martlets honored their nine seniors of the class of 2024 who have given so much to the program over the years: Jillian Gregorski, Haley Cramer, Blessing Kieh, Kaitlyn McQueeney, Elysse Cumberland, Catherine Graves, Sarah Lenox, Mia Davis, and Ella Ungerman. With high energy and excitement for their seniors, the Martlets came ready to play. Just within five minutes, the Martlets were able to score their first goal of the game. Outside midfielder, Lenox, played a beautiful ball over the top of the bear backline for McQueeney to run onto. After collecting it at the top of the box, McQueeney took a few dribbles forward, beat her defender with speed, and sliced the ball into the back of the net. Shortly after, Graves received the ball from Cramer and dribbled down the left sideline unobstructed. Graves then played a wonderful high arching ball into the box, and after just clearing the reach from a Berkshire defender, it fell to Cumberland who knocked it down and rifled it off the volley to blast it by the keeper. Kieh scored the third goal of the game off of an assist from Cramer. Wasting no time after claiming a Berkshire turnover at midfield, Cramer sent a ball to Kieh who timed her run perfectly, dribbled, and placed her shot at the far post. The final goal of the half came from defender Izzie Leone ‘27. After receiving the ball from Mia Fluckiger ‘26, Leone took one touch and ripped a far shot from outside the 18 that sailed over the hands of the Berkshire keeper. The second half saw two more goals from two seniors, Gregorski and Davis. After receiving the ball from Graves on the left side of the field, Cramer sailed a ball into the 18 for Gregorski to finish one-touch into the Berkshire net. Davis, who is normally an outside back, moved up to forward for the later segment of the half in an attempt to score her first goal of the season. After multiple close tries, she finally found the back of the net! After a Berkshire goal kick, Cramer found the ball at midfield and played a quick through ball into the box to Gregorski who was one-on-one with the keeper. Instead of taking a shot on goal herself, Gregorski laid the ball back to Davis. With sheer grit, Davis muscled through and pushed the ball into the goal with a great follow-through. The score remained 6-0 until the final whistle, and the rest of the Martlet squad rushed the field to congratulate their seniors. The Martlets look forward to their next game this upcoming Monday against Kingswood Oxford. The game will be played away at 3 PM.