And the Bulldogs just keep rolling along!
Lyman High School knows all about undefeated seasons in girls soccer and, barring an East Lyme upset, that will be true again in 2007 after the Bulldogs blanked St. Bernard, 2-0, in Uncasville Monday night.
"It's pretty tough," St. Bernard senior Lauren Kozlowski said when asked how tough it is to stop the Lyman offense. "We still have a relatively young defense too."
Ashlee Coutu wasn't going to be denied as she scored her 23rd and 24th goals of the season in the first 10 minutes of the game and had a couple of other good chances that just missed. Her goal now is to get one step further than Lyman did last year in the state-that would be a state championship- and there's one slight hitch to that plan. Lyman has to play in Class M this season as they finished one girl over the enrollment number to be a Class S school.
"We have Suffield, Tolland, Avon, right off the bat, Laurelton Hall down south and Rocky Hill could be a sleeper, you have some good teams in Class M," Lyman coach Mark Morello said.
"Watertown, Holy Cross, I could keep naming them."
And to make matters worse, Morello knows little about his new opponents although the opposite is true too.
"I hope it will even out because my folder was useless by the end of the summer when I found out we were in (Class) M by one girl. I had all my "S" stuff ready to roll and here we are in "M",'Morello laughed.