What a start it has been for The Community School girls' varsity soccer team! Nine games and nine victories for the newly crowned #1 team in Idaho 3A girls' soccer, according to the Idahosports.com poll.
Coach Kelly Feldman's 3A Cutthroats improved to 9-0-0 overall Monday with a convincing 4-0 triumph over the 4A Jerome Tigers on the Sagewillow Farms pitch.
It was a day filled with lightning, thunder and rain—just about everything, Feldman joked, except sun and snow. But the unbeaten Cutthroats provided most of the thunder.
Leading scorer Hannah Hennessy scored on a Cody Curran feed at 17 minutes and Maddie-Kate Currie made it two goals in her last two games, assisted by Erica Eshman, at 28 minutes. It was 2-0 at the half.
Cody Curran and Eshman completed the scoring after half. And senior goalkeeper Kathryn Farmer spun the shutout—eighth of the season in nine games. The Cutthroats have allowed only one goal.
Feldman said after the Jerome win, "It was a really good, solid game all the way around. It was good to know that we could be challenged and play as well as we did."
The Cutthroats have only three non-conference games this year and they've won two of them over 4A teams, Minico (by an 8-0 score) and Jerome (3-8-1, 2-2-0 Great Basin).
There are six games left in the season and Feldman's high-octane Cutthroats (58 goals in 9 games) are nearly a lock to break the school's all-time single-season record of 11 wins set during the 2003 season when Sun Valley finished third in the state tournament. And the Cutthroat program has never had more than the 73 goals in 15 games set last fall.
Another record watch: Feldman's respected program will almost certainly reach the century mark of all-time wins this fall. In 13 seasons of fielding varsity soccer squads, Sun Valley teams are now 94-63-15.
Last week the host Cutthroats handled Gooding 6-0 Thursday and Bliss 7-0 Friday in a shortened game on the Sagewillow Farms pitch.
Hannah Hennessy (a team-high 18 goals) had a three-goal hat trick against Bliss while single goals came from Cody Curran (13 goals), Jessie Curran (10 goals), Nellie Brown and Maddie-Kate Currie.
Top sniper Hannah Hennessy is now within striking range of Cassidy Doucette's school single-season goal scoring record of 24 set in 2004.
Against Gooding Hennessy and Cody Curran each scored two, with Erica Eshman and Kelly Hennessy (her first goal) adding single goals.
The Cutthroats traveled to Wendell (2-4-1, 2-4-1) Tuesday and go to Buhl (4-4-1, 4-1-1) Thursday, Sept. 20 where the Cutthroats will try to contain Buhl's 100-goal career scorer Autumn Yturbe, still a junior.
They did it pretty well in Sun Valley Sept. 11, blanking Buhl 5-0. On Thursday Feldman's team will be playing for the first time this season at the site of the State 3A girls' tournament Oct. 18-20. The Cutthroats also beat Wendell 6-1 Sept. 4.
On Saturday, Sept. 22, The Community School faces its toughest challenge traveling to Hailey for an 11 a.m. non-conference girls' contest against the 4A Wood River Wolverines at South Valley Sports Complex.
Wood River (5-3-1, 4-0-0 Great Basin West) has won four straight games and is unbeaten in its last five contests.
