Peterson’s goal helps Bruins win
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By Dave Utnik
Published: October 16, 2008
“I was not expecting that. It was so exciting,” Peterson said.
The once inconspicuous Bruins (8-6) are accomplishing a lot of things that would have been un-expected of them just a month or so ago.
That has a lot to do with players like Peterson, who scored her eighth goal of the season in a 3-1 victory at Woodbridge on what has become Forest Park’s greatest asset — the penalty corner play.
“We’ve worked really hard to get our team to the point where we are right now. We just have to keep pushing,” Peterson said. “This is what we’ve been waiting for.”
Peterson’s second-half goal coupled with two booming blasts from sweeper Kirsten Wilburn prior to intermission were all the Bruins needed to hand the Vikings their first Cardinal District loss of the season on Thursday.
A team comprised mainly of juniors and varsity rookies has now won four in a row and is sud-denly tied for first place with one regular season match remaining against Hylton on Monday.
“We knew it was a big game and we had to come out here and win,” Wilburn said.
The Vikings had a chance to capture the regular season title — and a Northwest Region Tour-nament berth — for the second straight season only they couldn’t defend the Bruins at the top of the circle on penalty corners.
Wilburn, who has 11 goals this season, scored in identical fashion to give Forest Park a 2-0 half-time lead before Audrey King answered for Woodbridge with a shot inside the left post midway through the second half.
“The same play happened twice,” Vikings coach Tiffani Washington said. “We can’t be afraid to get hit. You’re going to get hit in this sport regardless. All four of our girls have to run out there [on corner plays] not just the flier. We have to work on how to defend their hitters.”
Samantha Schottler, who makes entry passes on Bruins’ corners, assisted on all three goals as Forest Park created the potential for a tiebreaker game against Woodbridge next week to decide the district title.
“Nobody wanted a tiebreaker game,” Washington said. “Next time we have to come out and want it a little more than they want it.”
It wouldn’t hurt to mark Wilburn a little tighter on penalty corners, either.
“I had the ball for two or three seconds and nobody came to me,” Wilburn said. “I was surprised. But that’s basically what we do at practice — corners, corners, corners. All of us have really strong hits. We know we can do it on corners. That’s how we won it.”
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