Soccer: Stone Bridge Boys, Girls Shutout Foes in Regional Quarterfinals

(May 28, 2010) - The Stone Bridge High School boys and girls soccer teams turned up the defense Thursday night in the AAA Northern Region quarterfinals, shutting out their opponents to advance to the semifinals and one win away from clinching state bids. The Bulldog girls blanked Lee, 3-0, at home, while the Bulldog boys went on the road and blanked Lake Braddock, 2-0, in a game played at South County. Both games were moved up to 6 p.m. starts and avoided the severed weather that stormed through the area later.

In the boys game, senior defender Abdul Shaban and junior defender Tommy Dunne each scored for the Bulldogs with senior forward Andrew Kravatz picking up the lone assist. Shaban's goal off a long free kick gave Stone Bridge a 1-0 lead at the half and Dunne's strike from outside off a back pass from Kravatz early in the second half gave SB the insurance.

Senior Nick Lowrey picked up the win in goal and his sixth outright shutout with the team having shutout nine opponents overall on the year.

With the win, Stone Bridge's record improves to 14-3-0 and the Bulldogs will play at Robinson next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the semifinals. McLean and Yorktown will play in the other semifinal.

The Stone Bridge girls, after winning 9-0 in the first round, earned another shutout in its 3-0 win over R.E. Lee.

Ashley Herndon put the first ball in the net off a pass from Mallory Corpe 11 minutes into the first half. Though the Bulldogs kept shooting on goal, they ended the half with the one goal.

A little over a minute into second half, Murielle Tiernan received a pass from Jennifer Skogerboe and quickly turned and took a shot on goal sending the ball into the left corner of the net. 20 minutes later, Skogerboe received a pass from Herndon and scored the final goal for the Bulldogs.

Goalkeeper Julia Harmison had four saves in the game. The Bulldogs are now 16-0-2 and will play on Wednesday at Lake Braddock against Oakton.