Karns City, Clearfield Girls Move into D9 2A Soccer Title Game

CLARION, Pa. – McKenna Martin and Brooke Stahlman each scored twice to lead Karns City back to the District 9 Class 2A title game with a 6-0 win over Brookville Wednesday night at Clarion University’s Memorial Stadium.

The top-seeded Lady Gremlins, who have won seven straight District 9 soccer titles including three in a row in Class 2A, will go for an eighth straight title when they play third-seeded Clearfield, a 4-2 winner over St. Marys, in the title game at a date, time and place to be announced.

The game was basically over before it started with Karns City scoring twice in the first 5:10 of the contest including a penalty kick goal by Martin in the third minute.

Emma Dailey then scored off an Ally Fennell assist, one of two assists by Fennell, early in the sixth minute to make it 2-0.

Just under 15 minutes lates, Fennell picked up her second assist on Stahlman’s first goal to make it 3-0 Karns City at halftime.

Midway through the 53rd minute, Stahlman made it 4-0 with Alexis Moore picking up the first of what would be two helpers, and then Martin scored her second goal early in the 64th minute with Moore getting the assist to make it 5-0.

Karns City closed out the scoring with around 11 ½ minutes to play when Jillian Morrow scored unassisted.

Rossi McMillen didn’t have to work very hard to get the shutout stopping Brookville’s lone shot, as the fourth-seeded Lady Raiders were outshot, 13-1.

Jordan Cook made seven saves for Brookville.

CLEARFIELD 4, ST. MARYS 2

BROCKWAY, Pa. – Elle Smith scored twice to lead third-seeded Clearfield to a 4-2 win over second-seeded St. Marys in the District 9 Class 2A semifinals at Varischetti Field in Brockway.

After spotting St. Marys a 1-0 lead on a Lauren Eckert goal early in the sixth minute, Smith made sure the Lady Bison went into halftime with the lead.

She knotted the game up with an unassisted tally midway through the 10th minute before putting home the go-ahead goal later in the 19th minute with Emma Hipps getting an assist.

Hipps picked up her second helper of the game late in the 62nd minute when she assisted on a goal by Lydia Brown to make it 3-1 Clearfield.

Erckert answered back less than three minutes later giving St. Marys life with a goal midway through the 65th minute, but Hipps gave Clearfield breathing room when she scored unassisted midway through the 68th minute.

Hayley Moore made nine saves to preserve the win for Clearfield, while Britney Shaw made 14 stops for St. Marys.

Clearfield will take on Karns City in the title game at a time, date and place to be announced.