THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2023 Page 21 ~ RHS SPORTS ROUNDUP ~ Revere girls’ soccer team to meet Somerville for GBL title showdown Morales tapped it to Pina for a goal. Nataly Oliva took a punt from the goalie and scored an unassisted goal making it 3-0. A few minutes later Kaylin Oliva pressured the Chelsea goalie, who missed a punt. Nataly Oliva grabbed the ball again and scored her second unassisted goal of the game. TOURNEY-BOUND: Revere/Malden Co-op Golf Team Seniors: Saul Kruckenberg, Matt LaCroix, Ollie Svendsen and Ryan Coggswell. (Advocate fi le photo) W hat a year it’s been for the Revere High School girls’ soccer team. The team climbed to 15-0-1 earlier this week with a 1-0 win over Lynn Classical thanks to a goal from Kaylin Oliva on a feed from Erika Mejia and Jessica Nova. The Greater Boston League title will be decided when two unbeatens meet on Friday, Oct. 27 – Revere at Somerville at 4:15 p.m. at Dilboy Stadium. A win, and the Lady Patriots win the GBL. A tie, and they share. A loss, and it’s Somerville celebrating the GBL crown on its home turf. Revere plays Northeast Tech Thursday in a nonleaguer before the big match with the Lady Highlanders. The Lady Patriots picked up a couple of victories last week. Last Monday it beat Boston Collegiate Charter, 4-0. The first goal was scored by Kesley Morales with an assist from Jessica Nova with 17 minutes left in the half. Revere then had a sister-to-sister connection late in the fi rst half when Fatima Oliva brought the ball up from the back and passed it to her sister Nataly Olivia. Nataly then took it down the middle of the fi eld then went one-on-one with the goalie and scored. “We had some great scoring opportunities but the goalie from Boston Collegiate had a great game against us making some big saves,” Revere coach Megan O’Donnell said. In the second half Revere had goals from Sandra Torres with an assist from Mejia and Nataly Oliva, who scored the fi nal goal with an assist from Mejia. Kaylin Oliva worked hard to get many shots on net in the second half but couldn’t fi nd the back of the net. “Kaylin forced Boston Collegiate to make some mistakes which gave us the ball back,” O’Donnell said. Nisrin Sekkat had a few great saves in the second half when Boston Collegiate moved the ball upfi eld and took shots. “We had some great ball movement from senior Giselle Portillo who got the start at left halfback and senior Karla Leal when she entered the game,” O’Donnell said. “Grace Ramirez had great ball movement with Salma Zahraoui who gave Angie Caneza a few scoring opportunities against Boston Collegiate. Amilee Hernandez, Adriana Cataldo and Jaimy Gomez all moved the ball up fi eld and made a few defensive stops for us.” Revere also beat Chelsea, 7-0. “Chelsea made us earn every goal we scored that day,” O’Donnell said. “The score does not refl ect on how well Chelsea played against us.” Revere tallied its first goal with 28 minutes left in the fi rst half when Mejia sent a ball down the line to Catalina Chizavo, who took the ball from the sideline and crossed over the top of the box and buried the ball in the back of the net. Senior Ari Pina scored the second goal of the fi rst half when Mejia set up a corner kick and she crossed it to the middle where “Chelsea didn’t get defeated because they were losing. It motivated them to play hard and more physical and when that happened, Chelsea ended up getting a card and after that the Revere girls got fi red up and scored three more goals,” O’Donnell said. Pina netted one on a free kick from the top of the box, and Mejia scored from a pass from defender Portillo, who stepped up in the midfi eld and made a nice outlet pass to Mejia for the goal. Revere’s last goal was scored by Chizavo from Jessica Nova and Pina, who moved the ball down the line into the midfi eld to fi nd Chizavo down the sideline. She then brought the ball to middle of the box and ripped a shot into the back of the net. The Lady Patriots had great defensive plays by Salvador, Fatima Oliva, Pina and Samarah Paiva. Sandra Torres and Mejia dominated the midfi eld. Revere also topped Medford, 2-0. Late in the fi rst half of the game, Revere had a throw-in from the right sideline deep in the Medford zone, and Chizavo threw the ball deep into the box. Pina received the ball and turned and passed it to Paiva, who buried the ball past the Medford goalie and into the back of the net. “Our defense was challenged the whole game but senior defender Salvador and junior Fatima Oliva had the defense on lock along with goalkeeper Sekkat who made some great saves and didn’t allow Medford any cheap shots on net,” O’Donnell said. Late in the second half, senior Paiva moved her way up the midfi eld and turned and made a bang-bang passing play with Nataly Oliva, giving Paiva a clear run to the goal. She blasted the ball past the Medford keeper, making it 2-0. Medford was physical and could move the ball up the fi eld but our midfi eld did a great job on making some big stops; Erika Mejia, Sandra Torres, Jessica Nova and Catalina Chizavo played strong. Forwards Kaylin Oliva, Nataly Oliva, Morales and Angie Caneza all worked hard to pressure Medford’s defense to turn the ball over. 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