Prairie Girls Soccer

Carney's hat trick leads Prairie girls

WATERLOO -- Rachel Carney scored three goals to lead Prairie's 8-0 rout of Waterloo East on Thursday in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls soccer game.

Katilyn Yanacek added two goals for the Hawks (5-10, 5-7 MVC).  Meleah Baloch, Priscilla DeSouza and Lizzie Fowler also scored.

East (0-15, 0-12) has been outscored 137-6.

Prairie 8, Waterloo East 0
Goals -- CRP: Rachel Carney 3, Katilyn Yanacek 2, Meleah Baloch, Priscilla DeSouza, Lizzie Fowler. Assists -- CRP: Carney 2, Yanacek, Fowler, Alisa Weiland, Carly Wehmeyer.

Prairie drops a pair of girls soccer games

The Xavier girls soccer team continued their offensive dominance on a rainy Saturday at Prairie, picking up a 6-2 victory over the Hawks.

The Saints (13-1, 10-1 MVC) six goals against Prairie (4-10, 4-7) brings their total to 36 goals in the last five games, since they had their 35-game winning streak broken by Washington on April 30. Before that game, Xavier had scored 17 goals through their first seven games.

“Offensively we are playing well,” said Xavier Coach Doug Graham. “We are kind of hitting our stride at the end of the season. The two girls up top, Kayla (Armstrong) and Annie (Dale) are connecting really well, and then you’ve got Lauren Konchar coming in. Now the three of them are all looking for each other so that is helping us out a lot.”

Those three accounted for five of the six goals with Armstrong and Konchar both scoring two goals. Senior Kelsey Sargent netted the other goal for the Saints. Armstrong boosted her Metro-leading goal total to 20.

The game was played in less than ideal conditions with constant rain through the first 50 minutes of the game. Xavier was able to take advantage of that a couple of times to help it build up an early lead.

“The ball was king of skidding through a little bit and the Prairie goal keeper was playing very deep out,” Graham said. “That gave us an opportunity to rocket the slot balls through, but it always skips a lot in this weather.”

Although the Prairie side was a little outmatched on Saturday, they were able to take advantage of their chances to keep the game interesting through the first 70 minutes.

Junior forward Rachel Carney was able to keep the Xavier defense honest, providing a speedy weapon up top that gave Xavier some trouble on long passes. Carney scored the first goal for Prairie off of a nice feed from Meleah Baloch to cut Xavier lead to 3-1.

Prairie connected again in the second half when Katherine Grabe took a good corner kick from Elissa Musil and barely slotted it inside the post to cut the lead to two goals again.

But the Saints were too much for the Hawks, scoring a pair of goals down the stretch to put the game away.

Prairie dropped its second game of the day, 2-0, to Linn-Mar.

Xavier 6, Prairie 2
Goals -- CRX: Kayla Armstrong 2 (6th min and 73rd min), Lauren Konchar 2 (21st min and 44th), Annie Dale (32nd min), Kelsie Sargent (70th min). CRP: Rachel Carney (35th min), Katherine Grabe (45th min). Assists -- CRX: Sammi Shepard, Mary Levett, Aly Schultz, Katelyn Winker. CRP: Meleah Baloch, Elissa Musil.

Linn-Mar 2, Prairie 0
Goals -- LM: Molly Brandt, Mallory Garman. Assists -- LM: Lindsey Harms, Kenz Seckman.

Prairie girls shutout Senior in girls soccer

Four different players scored a goal apiece to lead Prairie past Dubuque Senior, 4-0, Thursday in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls soccer game at Prairie.

Kaitlyn Yanacek, Meleah Baloch, Brittney England and Mackenzie Mehmen all scored goals for Prairie (4-8, 4-5 MVC). Emily Musil and Alexis Leggat shared keeper duties for the Hawks.

Dubuque Senior is 1-9, 1-8.

Prairie 4, Dubuque Senior 0

Goals -- CRP: Kaitlyn Yanacek, Meleah Baloch, Brittney England, Mackenzie Mehmen. Assists -- CRP: Lizzy Fowler, Katherine Grabe, Rachel Carney.

Prairie girls top Hempstead, 1-0

DUBUQUE - Rachel Carney scored early in the game and Cedar Rapids Prairie made it hold up for a 1-0 victory over Dubuque Hempstead in a Mississippi Valley Conference game in Dubuque Tuesday.

Emily Musil got the shutout in goal for the Hawks (3-8, 3-5 MVC). Dubuque Hempstead is 6-6, 4-5.