Pasco blanks Moses Lake

MOSES LAKE - It started out evenly matched until Pasco pulled away.

Moses Lake went toe-to-toe with the Bulldogs, but the resilience and pressure took its toll on the "youth" of the Chiefs, the only factor head coach Ricardo Char pointed to for the 4-0 loss.

"Youth is the only thing," Char added. "When you are running back toward your own goal 10 times, you get frustrated."

Pasco supplied the pressure and made Moses Lake goal keeper Katy Lamb defend the net for the first 30 minutes of play. But, her aggressive play on a breakaway from Pasco's Lacey Castleberry, set the middle-fielder up for a penalty kick and the first goal of the game with 7:22 remaining in the first half.

Castleberry found herself in the Moses Lake backfield again for a 25-yard pooch kick over Lamb's head and into the back of the net for a 2-0 lead with under two minutes left in the game.

"We do everything we can, but they have speedy little players and we get tired," Char added.

Pasco came out with the same intensity witnessed in the first half and continued to fire away at Moses Lake's Lamb. But, it was the defensive role players around Lamb that kept the Bulldogs from breaking the game wide open.

Castleberry fought for position with defender Gabe Madson and found the ball kicked out of scoring threat

After a Kellie Gamache goal 28 minutes into the second half, Madson staved off a scoring threat from Jessica McKeown in the goal box after McKeown got past Lamb who went to meet the Pasco middle-fielder at the edge of the goal box.

"My defense did everything I asked them to," Char said. "They trust Katy and she has gotten better from last year and everybody trusts her back there."

But, Pasco told the story by controlling the offensive pressure, shooting nine times at the Moses Lake goal and scoring on four attempts. The pressure prevented the Chiefs from making serious attacks on the Bulldogs offensively and were able to shutdown leading scorer Becky Bertram to one shot on goal.

0 "We got Becky Bertram and she is by far my best offensive threat and she can't do it herself," Char said. "They put one or two girls on her and it is hard for her to do anything after that."