2015 Girls HS Soccer

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Once again, poor reffing ruining important championship games.

So true, Cumberland should have been given a PK & several more free kicks. Lots of missed Mt Hope handballs & jersey pulls. Good thing the better team prevailed despite the terrible refereeing.

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High school soccer is all about the coach. There's a reason the same schools seem to make the final four year after year. It's because the coaches have figured out a way to combine their club players and school only players and create a winning team. Smithfield girls, Cumberland girls, NK boys, Shea boys, Portsmouth girls always seem to be in the mix.

A strong feeder program from town soccer and the middle school is a big help. But neither is a guarantee of wins once kids get to the high school. Lincoln is a good example of having a strong town and middle school program that fails at the varsity level. Similar sized town as Smithfield. Similar level of losses to private schools. Both have great town programs and great middle school programs. Yet Smithfield is in the mix every year and Lincoln wins only 2 games. The difference is the coaching.

Lasalle girls are a good example of how having a bad coach can negate having the biggest talent pool. It's all about the coach.

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High school soccer is all about the coach. There's a reason the same schools seem to make the final four year after year. It's because the coaches have figured out a way to combine their club players and school only players and create a winning team. Smithfield girls, Cumberland girls, NK boys, Shea boys, Portsmouth girls always seem to be in the mix.

A strong feeder program from town soccer and the middle school is a big help. But neither is a guarantee of wins once kids get to the high school. Lincoln is a good example of having a strong town and middle school program that fails at the varsity level. Similar sized town as Smithfield. Similar level of losses to private schools. Both have great town programs and great middle school programs. Yet Smithfield is in the mix every year and Lincoln wins only 2 games. The difference is the coaching.

Lasalle girls are a good example of how having a bad coach can negate having the biggest talent pool. It's all about the coach.

My daughter is/was a senior on the Lincoln girls soccer team. Didn't play that much, that's ok she's a smart kid and knows her limitations and was happy to be part of the team. From what I can gather there was 1 sophomore on the team and 6 freshmen tried out this year. Of those 6, 2-3 were ready for D1 varsity. There was no U14 competitive town team to feed a JV program, so when you say Lincoln has a strong town and MS feeder program my only conclusion is that you are a blowhard who doesn't know their ass from their elbow. Basically a squad of 17 outfield players, 5-6 who are true D1 level, 5-6 solid D2 players, rest JV level. No real D1 talent off the bench, injuries, and freshman who were use to beating up on middle school teams that can't handle any kind of on field adversity. Many girls give up after going down a goal; with no real competition for starting spots on the team and bad/lazy attitudes in practice, no surprise they only won a couple of games. If the coaches are guilty of anything it was not anticipating the lack of numbers/ talent coming up from MS, the town competitive teams are non-existent, they should have stayed in D2, as some parents wanted, myself included (my daughter may have got more playing time her senior year) and continued to beat up on East Providence and Cranston East. Future? only 6 players coming up next year so unlikely to run a JV team again, same lack of depth, no competition for playing time = complacent players

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In observation, mt hope is not a very good team. All they do is kick the ball it's ridiculous. Didn't even see them string three passes together. Surprised they made it this far.

LOL. Teams DONT make it this far if they can't play well. And they don't make it close games if they don't play well. They dominated the 2nd half but wasn't enough. Not sure why they went with the freshman goalie over the senior one first half but hindsight is 20/20.

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My daughter is/was a senior on the Lincoln girls soccer team. Didn't play that much, that's ok she's a smart kid and knows her limitations and was happy to be part of the team. From what I can gather there was 1 sophomore on the team and 6 freshmen tried out this year. Of those 6, 2-3 were ready for D1 varsity. There was no U14 competitive town team to feed a JV program, so when you say Lincoln has a strong town and MS feeder program my only conclusion is that you are a blowhard who doesn't know their ass from their elbow. Basically a squad of 17 outfield players, 5-6 who are true D1 level, 5-6 solid D2 players, rest JV level. No real D1 talent off the bench, injuries, and freshman who were use to beating up on middle school teams that can't handle any kind of on field adversity. Many girls give up after going down a goal; with no real competition for starting spots on the team and bad/lazy attitudes in practice, no surprise they only won a couple of games. If the coaches are guilty of anything it was not anticipating the lack of numbers/ talent coming up from MS, the town competitive teams are non-existent, they should have stayed in D2, as some parents wanted, myself included (my daughter may have got more playing time her senior year) and continued to beat up on East Providence and Cranston East. Future? only 6 players coming up next year so unlikely to run a JV team again, same lack of depth, no competition for playing time = complacent players

I have two daughters on Lincoln and I spent the last night watching the semis in Johnston not constructing a post about Lincoln that literally no one in this universe is interested in reading two days before State Final. Good luck Lasalle & Cumberland ....

btw ... First visit to Johnston since the renovation - beautiful job, what a beautiful facility

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So true, Cumberland should have been given a PK & several more free kicks. Lots of missed Mt Hope handballs & jersey pulls. Good thing the better team prevailed despite the terrible refereeing.

It was a good game. You should have watched it with both eyes open.

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So true, Cumberland should have been given a PK & several more free kicks. Lots of missed Mt Hope handballs & jersey pulls. Good thing the better team prevailed despite the terrible refereeing.

And Mt Hope should have been given a PK in the first half on a clear break in by the MT Hope Striker. Clearly in front of defender, tripped from behind with no ball play. Ref saw it and played on.

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My daughter is/was a senior on the Lincoln girls soccer team. Didn't play that much, that's ok she's a smart kid and knows her limitations and was happy to be part of the team. From what I can gather there was 1 sophomore on the team and 6 freshmen tried out this year. Of those 6, 2-3 were ready for D1 varsity. There was no U14 competitive town team to feed a JV program, so when you say Lincoln has a strong town and MS feeder program my only conclusion is that you are a blowhard who doesn't know their ass from their elbow. Basically a squad of 17 outfield players, 5-6 who are true D1 level, 5-6 solid D2 players, rest JV level. No real D1 talent off the bench, injuries, and freshman who were use to beating up on middle school teams that can't handle any kind of on field adversity. Many girls give up after going down a goal; with no real competition for starting spots on the team and bad/lazy attitudes in practice, no surprise they only won a couple of games. If the coaches are guilty of anything it was not anticipating the lack of numbers/ talent coming up from MS, the town competitive teams are non-existent, they should have stayed in D2, as some parents wanted, myself included (my daughter may have got more playing time her senior year) and continued to beat up on East Providence and Cranston East. Future? only 6 players coming up next year so unlikely to run a JV team again, same lack of depth, no competition for playing time = complacent players

In short, please drag the team down to d2 so my daughter can play more. Forgot the whole team was about your daughter.

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Excuses excuses

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And Mt Hope should have been given a PK in the first half on a clear break in by the MT Hope Striker. Clearly in front of defender, tripped from behind with no ball play. Ref saw it and played on.

Thanks, you helped make my point, stop whining about the refs, they sucked both ways!! Mt Hope lost because they lost not because of the refs. Both teams could have been given PKs & maybe a few free kicks but it was bad reffing both ways, the better team won.

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Thanks, you helped make my point, stop whining about the refs, they sucked both ways!! Mt Hope lost because they lost not because of the refs. Both teams could have been given PKs & maybe a few free kicks but it was bad reffing both ways, the better team won.

Agreed. Reffing sucked. But, Mt. Hope definitely had plenty of opportunities in the 2nd half to at least force the game into overtime but poor passing (and in some cases, lack of) kept them from making it happen. Cumberland came out strong in the first half then rode the lead defensively in the 2nd. They were the better team. They're going to have to step it up a notch vs Lasalle.

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In short, please drag the team down to d2 so my daughter can play more. Forgot the whole team was about your daughter.

Don't be so dramatic, not about my daughter, that was beside the pointt, my point was , and I guess I have to spell it out for you, don't make a move to D1 without the proper planning, make sure you have the numbers and talent to support a D1 program

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I have two daughters on Lincoln and I spent the last night watching the semis in Johnston not constructing a post about Lincoln that literally no one in this universe is interested in reading two days before State Final. Good luck Lasalle & Cumberland ....

btw ... First visit to Johnston since the renovation - beautiful job, what a beautiful facility

If you don't want to be called out, don't post bs,

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Don't be so dramatic, not about my daughter, that was beside the pointt, my point was , and I guess I have to spell it out for you, don't make a move to D1 without the proper planning, make sure you have the numbers and talent to support a D1 program

Plenty of talent to win more than 3 games in d1. Plenty of Bayside and NEFC players on Lincoln varsity. They all came up through a very successful town program. They won big in middle school. The problem is the coaching.

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Plenty of talent to win more than 3 games in d1. Plenty of Bayside and NEFC players on Lincoln varsity. They all came up through a very successful town program. They won big in middle school. The problem is the coaching.

Plenty of club players? 10..and you assume they all can make impact in D1. get off the Batside bandwagon, same Bayside players missing open goals from 3 yards out week after week. There are 1-2 D1 impact players on the team at best. MS won big?, against who? Not the better MS teams, and same this year. Varsity players may have came up on a town team, when was that ? U10, there are no girls teams now and there hasn't been for a couple of years. Not totally disagreeing with you on the coaching but same coach that went virtually undefeated for the two years in D2 before the move to D1, took them to D2 final. The players have to look at themselves also, seeing most of the games from the bleachers it seems there's a lack of mental toughness. But then again what do I know, my kid is not on Bayside.