Padua vs Smyrna girls soccer, photo courtesy of Padua Athletics
The weather doesn’t look good again this week but the good news is there are only 5 matches on the schedule this week as most schools are on their holiday break.
The beauty of soccer is sometimes the final score doesn’t tell the whole story. The No. 3 Quakers played Wilmington Christian last week and fell 1-0 in the match where they outshot them 16-2. The Quakers also had a 10-0 advantage on corner kicks. Sophomore Leah Matthews had 16 saves including a bunch of 10 bell saves. Matthew’s had 24 saves against ranked teams last week.Â
The Saint Mark’s Spartans beat Appoquinimink 2-1 last week in a battle of No. 2 teams. The Division 2 No. 2 Spartans scored a goal in the first half to take a 1-0 lead into intermission over Division 1 No. 2 Appoquinimink. Both teams scored in the second half as the Spartans held on for the key non conference win.Â
Here is the week 2 Delaware Live Rankings after the second week of competition. A light schedule this week.
Division 1
No. 1 Middletown (3-0)(LW No, 1) The defending champs went 2-0 last week with a 7-0 win over Odessa and a 5-0 win over then No. 3 Smyrna. Â
No. 2 Appoquinimink (3-1)(LW No. 2) The Jags went 1-1 last week with a 2-1 loss against Division 2 No. 2 Saint Markâs and a win over Mount Pleasant. Â
No.3 Wilmington Charter (3-1)(LW No. 4) The Force defeated Division 2 No. 5 DMA 1-0 last week. Â
No.4 Polytech (3-0-1)(LW No. 5) The Panthers defeated Dover and Red Lion last week. Â
No. 5 Sussex Tech (3-0-1)(LW Unranked) The Ravens went 2-0 last week with a 3-2 win over then No. 8 Cape Henlopen and a 1-0 win over Milford. Â
No. 6 Smyrna (1-2)(LW No. 3) The Eagles went 1-1 last week with a 3-1 win over Cape Henlopen and a 5-0 loss to No. 1 Middletown.
No. 7 Padua (0-2)(LW No. 7)Â The Pandas got in the win column with a 4-3 win over Sanford last week.Â
No. 8 Odessa (2-1-1)(LW No. 6) Â The Ducks went 1-1 last week with a win over Odyssey Charter and a loss to No. 1 Middletown.
No. 9 Delcastle (2-1)(LW No. 9) Â Â The Cougars won over Mckean last week.
No. 10 Caesar Rodney (3-1)(LW Unranked)Â The Riders beat Sussex Central and Lake Forrest last week.
Division 2
No. 1 Caravel (3-0)(LW No.1)   The Bucs defeated St Andrewâs and Newark Charter ;ast week Both were by 1-0 scores.
No. 2 Saint Markâs (2-0)(LW No. 2) Â Â The Spartans defeated Division 1 No. 2 Appoquinimink 2-1 last week.
No. 3 Archmere (2-0)(LW No. 4) The Auks defeated Newark Charter 2-0,
No. 4 Sussex Academy (2-0)(LW No. 6) The Seahawks defeated Laurel in a Henlopen South conference match,
No. 5 DMA (2-1)(LW No. 5)Â The Seahawks picked up a win over Red Lion and lost 1-0 to Division 1 No. 4t Wilmington Charter..
No. 6 Indian River (1-0-1)(LW No. 7) Â The Indians defeated then No. 10 Delmar 1-0 in a Henlopen South Conference match.Â
No. 7 Friends (1-0)(LW No. 3) Â The Quakers lost 1-0 to Wilmington Christian last week. They host St Andrew’s on Tuesday and Tatnall on Thursday.Â
No. 8 Conrad (3-1)(LW No. 9) The Red Wolves picked up a 2-1 win over Wilmington.Christian and a 9-0 win over St Elizabeth’s.  Â
No. 9 Newark Charter (1-2)(LW No. 8) The Patriots lost 2-0 to No. 3 Archmere and 1-0 to No..1 Caravel. Â
No. 10 Wilmington Christian (2-1)(LW Unrank)  The Warriors enter the top 10 after splitting a pair of games to rank teams. They lost to the No. 8 Red Wolves 2-1 and beat then No. 3 Friends 1-0.
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