Trojan girls' soccer defeats Knoxville, boys fall on own goal

Trojan girls? soccer topples Knoxville

The Fairfield girls? soccer team earned a road victory in Knoxville by the score of 3-1 Monday.

Kaley Ives, Huma Liptak and Claudia Sloat each scored a goal for Fairfield. Liptak, Elaine Brandt and Courtney Gilmore each made assists.

Liptak has scored in each of the Trojans? wins this season and has five goals total. Sloat has four goals on the year.

Ives scored off of a cross pass from Liptak late in the first half. She joins Tracy Andermann, Alyssa Murphy, Sidney Adam and Morgan Neil as players with one goal so far this season.

The Trojans held a 2-0 lead when Knoxville scored in the second half.

?Knoxville came out with more intensity than [us] in the second half,? Fairfield coach Michiel Hekker said. ?They began to win 50/50 opportunities and it looked as if Knoxville was going to threaten the back of our net more than once.?

Sloat received a pass from Gilmore with 20 minutes to go. She made one defender miss, and ripped a 30-yard strike past the goalkeeper to give Fairfield a 3-1 advantage.

?Overall the Fairfield girls played a strong game, but need to work on their first touch and communication in order to speed up the rate of play,? Hekker said.

Fairfield (3-1) will hit the road again Thursday to face Southeast Conference rival Keokuk.

Fairfield boys fall on own goal

The Fairfield boys? soccer team lost a close game Tuesday 1-0 on an own goal against Knoxville at Trojan Stadium.

The goal, inadvertently knocked in by a Fairfield player, came with just over two and a half minutes to go in the game.

?[It?s a] tough loss, but the team showed a better team spirit and played much better than the previous two games,? Fairfield coach Felisto Guezimane said.

The JV team tied 2-2. Senior Justin Leonard scored both goals, with Brayden Miller and Derek Robinson both picking up assists on the night.

Fairfield hosts Keokuk Thursday at Trojan Stadium.