With the school year cranking back up for Baylor and Chattanooga Christian this week, their girls’ soccer teams hit the pitch at CCS for their season opener Tuesday night. Both squads had to shake some offseason rust, and Baylor came away with the 1-0 win.
The defending state champions in Division II-AA got the result they wanted, but it may take a few more games for the Lady Red Raiders to find their form.
“Any time you can come here and get a (winning) result is great, but you can tell, for us, it’s early in the season,” Baylor coach Curtis Blair said. “We’re still trying to find our identity and see who’s going to play where. The way to find that out is to put them in there and figure it out as you go. You could tell it was our first game.”
Baylor created some early opportunities and forced CCS keeper Lucy Sandhoff to make a save on a shot from close range. From there, the Lady Chargers settled into the game a bit to limit the visitors’ potent attack.
“I was a little frustrated with how we started out, but totally on their own they turned a switch,” CCS coach Cal Sneller said. “They were able to say, ‘How do get to playing our game?’ and adjusted well in the first half.”