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Monday night at the WCHS soccer field, the Warren County Middle School soccer team took on Tullahoma in non-conference action.
The Lady Pioneers defeated the Lady Wildcats earlier in the year, 3-1, but they failed to pick up win No. 2, as Warren County and Tullahoma had to settle for a scoreless tie. Warren County is now 7-2-1 on the year with one game left to play before the conference tournament begins at the end of this month.
In the first half the Lady Pioneers dominated play on both ends of the field, taking advantage of Tullahoma’s sluggish play.
Rachael Tieman had the Lady Pioneers’ first opportunity to score, when she fired a free-kick from 15 yards out at the 26:09 mark, but her shot was turned away by the Lady Wildcat keeper.
Tullahoma had few runs on offense in the opening half, but at the 21:11 mark the Lady Wildcats just missed finding the back of the net as the shot sailed left of the goal.
Tieman had two more opportunities, one coming with 15:06 left on the clock and the other with just under 10 minutes to play, but the shots came up short.
The Lady Pioneers continued to control the tempo of the game using quick passes to keep the Lady Wildcat defense off balance. Lauren Roller worked her way in front of the Tullahoma net with just under a minute to play, but her attempt was scooped up and turned away as the half ended 0-0.
Warren County came out in the second half and took the first shot at goal off of a corner-kick, but the ball wouldn’t go in the net for Warren County.
The Lady Wildcats turned the tables on the Lady Pioneers and stepped up play on both ends of the field. Tullahoma out played the Lady Pioneers beating them to the ball and making short passes through the Warren County defense.
Tullahoma missed on its first opportunity in the second half after Warren County’s keeper Lyndi Dodd came out from the net. But the shot was pulled to the left as the game remained scoreless.
Tullahoma would take two more attempts over the next 15-minutes, but failed to get on the board.
With five minutes to play Warren County turned things up on the offensive end of the field resulting in four corner-kicks, which failed to produce a score for the Lady Pioneers. With 2:21 left in the game Warren County had one last opportunity to take the lead, when Tullahoma was called for a handball just outside the box. Tieman fired at goal, but the Lady Wildcat goalie came up with the save as the game ended in the scoreless tie.
Warren County had nine shots at goal and nine corner-kicks, while Tullahoma had four shots and two corner-kicks.
Warren County will hit the road on Thursday to take on Cookeville.