1A East Soccer Regional Tournament

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#1 Riverheads
#2 Northampton
#3 Essex
#4 Mathews

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#5 Windsor
#6 Rappahannock
#7 Middlesex
#8 Altavista

Region Soccer Tourney starts Monday - All games will most likely be blowouts with the probable exception of Essex v Rappahannock. The two schools are old rivals (in many sports) with just a short trip across the river between them. This season, they have tied, Essex won by one, they play tonight, plus again on Monday. Might be difficult for Essex to win all four.

 

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Yes on paper all the top seeds SHOULD win. But you never know, that's why we play the games. I feel like this regional tournament will be the most exciting in a while as i believe there are 5 teams in contention to advance to states.

 

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The 4th time around was the charm for Rapp as they knocked off Essex 2-0 (was 0-0 at the half). As mentioned above, any seasoned sports observer could have seen this possibility coming when two strong teams play this many times in one season. The schools tied the first game, Essex won the next two in close games, and then the big one goes to the team with the edge and the hunger.

Congrats to Rappahannock on the big win! The Raiders played hard and were rewarded with the victory. I believe that Rappahannock defeated W&L last year like two or three times before regions and then lost to the Eagles in regions which knocked out a very good Rapp team. W&L eventually lost in the state title game to Galax.

Essex was by FAR given the toughest draw of the top 4 seeds in the regions in the 1st round. Tough way to go out for around ten seasoned senior veterans on the squad.

Rapp next will go to the Eastern Shore to take on power Northampton on Wednesday (not sure if they played Middlesex yet, Middlesex has improved greatly, but should be no match for Northampton, especially on the Eastern Shore.)

The winner of that will probably have to play at Riverheads, unless they get upset by Mathews (assuming they win or won their 1st round game.)

 

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Mathews won 9-1 over Windsor.
Northampton 5-0 over Middlesex.

 

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Northampton over Rappahannock in a 2-1 battle on the Eastern Shore.

Heard Mathews lost 9-2 to Riverheads. Wow, that is the most lopsided Region semis score I've seen in 1A. They must have forgotten to mark that VT commit, or maybe they tried to stop him, couldn't and just gave up. Any details?

I hope that Northampton can perform a lot better than Mathews. Good luck to them.

Looks like Riverheads will roll to a 1A title (No Mason to get in their way this season.)