Montrose Tournament Champions!!
The South Lyon Girls Soccer team traveled to Montrose for an all day tournament, keeping their opponets off the scoreboard for 180 minutes while bringing home 1st place.
The first game South Lyon faced Croswell-Lexington and came away with a 5-0 win. Andrea Pesch scored two goals and Kortney Koenig, Lindsay Cocklin, and Celina Pollard each had one.
The second game was also a 5-0 win for the Lions against Assumption College, a physical team from Ontario Canada. Pesch and Pollard each had two goals with Courtney Horaney scoring one.
The two wins put South Lyon into the championship game against the host school Montrose. This was the third year of the tournament with South Lyon winning it in 2008 and Montrose in 2009. South Lyon was determined to win it again an proved their point scored 50 seconds into the game when Lauren Dobransky sloted the ball to Pesch for the 1-0 lead. Pesch scored her second of the game and 6th of the tournament later in the half to give the Lions the 2-0 lead.
The second half saw Montrose pick up their game to try and get back in it, but South Lyon goalkeeper Caitlyn Kort made 7 saves for her third shutout of the day, including a diving save to her left with 6 minutes remaining in the match. South Lyon's victory in the tournament secured them 4 players on the all tournament team, including the MVP.
The South Lyon players on the tournament team included goalkeeper Caitlyn Kort, defender Jenna Virant, and forward Lauren Dobransky. With her 6 goals and an assist on the day, Andrea Pesch took home MVP honors.
South Lyon is now 5-2-1 on the season and open league play at home on Tuesday against Salem. | 
