By Michael Letendre
MERIDEN – The Bristol Eastern girls soccer team finally hit the pay window last Thursday night, dropping Platt by a 6-0 final in Meriden in a CCC South tilt.
The Lancers, now 1-3-1, earned that first victory behind four first-half goals and cruised the rest of the way.
Eastern out-shot Platt 27-0 overall and enjoyed a 13-0 advantage on shots on goal.
The Panthers did not give Lancer keepers Abigale Pelletier and Hailey Beebe much to sweat about that night as the home program couldn’t muster a shot.
Eastern held a 6-1 edge on corner kicks while Panthers’ keeper Zaniyah Duncan tallied seven saves.
Emma Stavens and Megan Krok each tallied two goals apiece while Maria Perrone and Kate Patterson nabbed single scores for the visiting aggression.
Maddie Gonneville, Stavens, Krok, and Beebe all zipped up assists for the Kingstreeters.
Eastern’s first goal game ten minutes in when Stavens won a goal kick and blasted in a shot for a 1-0 lead.
Four minutes later, during a scramble in front of the Platt goal, Perrone found the ball at her feet and perfectly placed a chip shot over the keeper that made it 2-0.
Stavens kept the pressure on two minutes later as her blast hit the post on a breakaway, but Krok was there to clean it up, which pumped the Eastern edge up to 3-0.
And with 21 minutes to go over the first forty, Krok set up Stavens off a corner kick for a score – propelling the Lancers to a 4-0 cushion.
In the second half, with 32:00 remaining, Beebe received a pass in the box, passed it off to Gonneville whose shot was blocked.
But Krok was again in the right place and buried the scraps for a 5-0 lead.
Finally, with 20 minutes showing on the clock, Patterson broke through and finished with a goal to cap the scoring, propelling the Lancers to a huge 6-0 victory.
Eastern’s next match is against another Meriden program, this time Maloney, on Tuesday from Alumni Field at 6 p.m. in Bristol.
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