FRC Women's Soccer: From WORST to FIRST

Quincy, CA – 11/08/11 – In one year the Feather River College women’s soccer team went from a one win, worst in the conference, performance to a first place Golden Valley Conference championship.  Winning the championship would not be easy on Tuesday afternoon. Butte College is always a tough opponent and the FRC women had lost the two previous contests this season against the defending GVC champions. 

   The score at the half was 0-0 with former Quincy high standout Korey Cline (above) in goal for the Lady Golden Eagles coming up with 4 first half saves to keep the Roadrunners at bay.

   The second half saw the Eagles strike first, when in Gracie Pedroza combined with Melissa Kalbfleisch on a corner kick set piece which resulted in Kalbfleisch curling the ball into the top corner of the net for a 1-0 Golden Eagle lead.    The lead would only last 6 minutes however when Butte broke away and knotted the match a 1-1.

    Pedroza would again play the key role in the match winner in the 75^th minute when FRC was awarded a free kick 25 yards from the Roadrunner goal and on a specially designed free kick Pedroza would strike a laser beam of a shot into the upper corner of the net for the eventual match winner.  “I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to see our women win the conference title. We recruited so hard this season to build our women’s team back up to a conference championship level and to win it this way in only my second year at FRC is a dream come true” Said coach Don Williams. “I am so proud of our women for battling through a difficult, injury riddled season, they have shown extraordinary guts and character” Williams continued.

Tuesday, October 18th, the FRC women hosted the Sacramento City College women and while they outshot Sac City 25-4 they were not able to come away with the goals they needed to record the win. Sac City snuck and early goal into the Lady Eagles net and walked away with a 1-0 win.