East Ridge’s Kolbe King, right, scores the opening goal past East Hamilton’s Cooper Loftin Saturday at Camp Jordan.The East Hamilton soccer team got progressively better Saturday evening in its District 6-A/AA match against East Ridge, which was good for coach John Millard only because it garnered the desire result.
There was still room for improvement.
Jonah Goddard scored twice and the ninth-ranked Hurricanes shook off a slow start to defeat the Pioneers 2-1 at Camp Jordan.
A week layoff between matches and playing against a very good East Ridge team wasn’t a good combination. The Pioneers (7-1-1, 3-1) jumped to a one-goal advantage early when Kolbe King rebounded a Tad Whitaker miss and fired a shot low and past Hurricanes keeper Fielder Dennis.
East Hamilton (7-1-2, 1-0) was able to even the match on a set piece, when Goddard went up and headed in an Alex McCarney chip.