Farmen, Oliver fuel Cards' soccer win

As predicted, senior defender Jaxyn Farmen was going to find a role in the offense for her Medical Lake girls soccer team.

And it was Farmen who provided all the goals in the Cardinals lone win last week, a 3-2 victory over Newport on Sept. 13 in a Northeast A League contest.

Medical Lake (1-2 Northeast A, 1-4 overall) opened the week with a 4-0 NEA loss to Freeman (3-0, 4-0) and finished with a 4-0 setback to Pullman (1-3-1) in a nonleague game.

“The Newport game was dramatic,” head coach Zane Higgins said. “We had several chances to score throughout the game but we were shooting a bit too far out at times rather than building up to a higher percentage chance.”

Farmen scored her first at the 21-minute mark on a long free kick. But Newport got the next two, one following some sloppy play in which the go-ahead score came when a Cardinal player cleared the ball directly to the opponent.

Fellow defender Jaycee Oliver was moved up and assisted on Farmen’s final two goals as the Cardinals rallied from a 2-1 deficit at the half.

“Late in the game I moved Jaycee up and we immediately scored from her cross and a great redirect from Jaxyn,” at 72 minutes, Higgins said. The game winner was almost a carbon copy of the previous goal with Farmen running on to a cross from Jaycee with two minutes left in the game.

“I’m very proud of the girls for fighting back and dominating the last 10 minutes,” Higgins said.

The Freeman game could have been closer, Higgins said. “It was a competitive game. They managed a couple of fortunate goals,” he added of the Scotties who led 2-0 at the break.

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