There is no other feeling like it in the world.
Just ask the Shoreham-Wading River girls soccer team. READ
Tag: Adrian Gilmore
On the way to the team’s postgame meal in Cortland, N.Y., on Saturday night, there were plenty of smiles and happy faces on the Shoreham-Wading River High School girls soccer team’s bus.
There was good reason why. READ
Previous Shoreham-Wading River High School girls soccer teams may not have had just the right combination of assets the current Wildcats have. The heart. The skill. The defense. The togetherness.
And now the current Wildcats have something none of their predecessors ever had: a Long Island championship. READ
It was a gift from the heavens, and that’s not a reference to the on-and-off rain.
Shoreham-Wading River was staring playoff elimination in the face and was a mere 7 minutes and 22 seconds from seeing its season come to an end. READ
Soccer can be a crazy game sometimes.
A team can control the flow of play for 76 minutes, as the Shoreham-Wading River girls did Tuesday, and then a 33-second span can makes things, well, a lot more interesting than they otherwise would be. READ
For all those wins — 100 now — what really matters most to Adrian Gilmore are her girls, the players on her Shoreham-Wading River High School girls soccer team. READ
Adrian Gilmore has some lofty goals for the Shoreham-Wading River girls soccer team.
Not only does that include winning the Suffolk County Class A title, but the Long Island one as well. That LI championship has been an elusive target for the Wildcats, who have never won one. READ
With a defense like that, it really shouldn’t have come as a surprise that the Shoreham-Wading River girls soccer team was able to successfully defend its Town of Brookhaven Summer League championship.
SWR did just that Thursday night with — what else? — a shutout in the championship game. Jillian Hobbes, a junior striker/midfielder, put in both goals in a 2-0 defeat of Rocky Point at Diamond in the Pines in Coram. The assists came from her sister, Sara Hobbes, and Graceann Leonard. Alison Devall posted the shutout. READ