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Thursday, February 22, 2018:

Below is a write-up in this morning’s Miami Herald about our Girls Soccer Team.  On behalf of the coaches, players, and parents, we truly want to thank all teachers, staff, administrators, coaches, and fans for supporting the girls all year, especially those who traveled eight plus hours on fan buses to cheer on our Spartans. 
 
Miami Herald – Girls Soccer - When you think about it, you may as well have asked them to grab a pick axe and scale Mount Everest. That was pretty close to the task facing the girls soccer players from Miami Country Day when they took the field against Orange Park St. Johns Country Day on Wednesday at Spec Martin Stadium. The venue was the Class 1A state championship game and MCD was taking on a team that came in 24-0, ranked No. 1 in the country by USA Today, has not lost a soccer game in three years (87 straight without a loss) and looking to tie a state record set by St. Thomas Aquinas (1993-99) of seven consecutive state championships. And if the Spartans had any thoughts of possibly shocking the world, it disappeared quickly as they fell behind 2-0 before the first half water break and St. John’s turned in a decisive and dominant 6-0 victory. And with that, St. Thomas now shares the state record of seven consecutive state championships as St. John’s, with a roster littered with FBS recruits, has now won 35 consecutive playoff games dating all the way back to a regional final loss to Winter Park Trinity Prep in 2011 and outscored their opponents by a ridiculous 186-11 in the process. The Miami Country Day girls found out what six previous opponents in the state title game found out. You can dream about trying to pull off the upset but actually getting it done on the field against this dominant program is an entirely different story. “They’re just so good and it isn’t just about the superior athleticism either,” said Miami Country Day coach Kyllene Carter of her opponent. “On top of the great athleticism, they are well organized, work so well together as a group and collectively it’s like they each always know what the other is doing out there and when you run into something like that, it’s just so tough.” St. John’s (25-0) wasted little time exercising its superiority as Kamryn Loustau, a Princeton commit, headed in a perfect corner kick from Payton Walton past MCD keeper Sophia Benenson just 3:42 into the game to go up 1-0. St. John’s then made it 2-0 at the 23:43 mark of the first half when TCU-bound Payton Crews popped one in. MCD actually hung tough the remainder of the first half and went to the halftime locker room only trailing 2-0. But that changed very quickly early in the second half when Crews scored again less than a minute in and Alisa Detlefsen scored two minutes later to make it 4-0. “St. John’s? It’s like going up against a kind of an all-star club team,” said MCD senior forward Amanda Martin who was the team leader in goals with 23 and is on her way to South Carolina. “There are just no soft spots anywhere on the field that you can try and go after, which makes it really tough to do anything effectively against them. We were hoping to come out and kind of make it a defensive type of game but once they got up 2-0, we knew that wasn’t going to work. I’m still proud of what we accomplished this year.” Said Carter: “My girls gave it their best shot and I’m certainly proud of what they accomplished. Making it to the state championship game in your respective sport is not easy to do and something to be very proud of.”
 
In Today’s Athletic Action…..The Boys Varsity Basketball Team hosts The Benjamin School in the Regional Semi-finals at 7pm, the Varsity Lacrosse Team hosts Western High School at 6pm, the Girls and Boys Middle School Tennis Teams travel to Divine Savior at 3pm, the Boys and Girls Varsity Tennis Teams host Divine Savior at 3pm (Arthur Snyder Tennis Center), and the Girls and Boys Varsity Water Polo Teams travel to Beach High at 3/4pm. 
 
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