{"id":91422,"date":"2017-08-14T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=91422"},"modified":"2017-08-14T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:27:59","slug":"lview-girls-soccer-preps-for-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/08\/14\/lview-girls-soccer-preps-for-new-season\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;view girls&#8217; soccer preps for new season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Entering the 2017 season, Lincolnview girls\u2019 soccer coach Tyson Thatcher listed three keys for success, as the Lady Lancers try to improve 2016\u2019s final record of 2-14 (2-4 Northwest Conference).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully our strength will be strong defense,\u201d Thatcher said. \u201cWe have moved a couple girls into the back line to give us more experience, physicality and speed back there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBall possession and conditioning have been our focus and will continue to be,\u201d Thatcher said of the other two keys to improvement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-50712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Soccer-ball-artwork-4-2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" \/>While preparing for the brand new season, the third year head coach has 10 returning letter winners at his disposal.<\/p>\n<p>The list includes seniors Maddie Gorman, Olivia Gorman, Allie Crow, Trinitey Brown, Haley Pollock and Allison Warnement, juniors Adia Welch, Raegan Boley and Abby Myers, and sophomore Hanna Scaggs.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his letter winners, Thatcher is counting on several others to make contributions &#8211;sophomore Shiann Kraft and freshmen Ariel Pruden, Hanna Young, Elizabeth Eaton, and Melody Puckett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though our depth is still limited we have made some personnel adjustments which we hope will close the point margin and will make us a more competitive team this season,\u201d Thatcher said.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Lancers will again compete in the NWC and the Western Ohio Soccer League. Thatcher believes Delphos St. John\u2019s and Bluffton are the teams to beat in the NWC, and he said Sidney Lehman Catholic, Anna and Lima Central Catholic are top contenders in the WOSL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth conferences are normally strong, and we are hoping to work our way up in both leagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Lancers are scheduled to scrimmage Liberty Center at home at 10 a.m. Saturday, then will open the regular season at Fort Jennings on Thursday, August 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor Entering the 2017 season, Lincolnview girls\u2019 soccer coach Tyson Thatcher listed three keys for success, as the Lady Lancers try to improve 2016\u2019s final record of 2-14 (2-4 Northwest Conference). \u201cHopefully our strength will be strong defense,\u201d Thatcher said. \u201cWe have moved a couple girls into the back line to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 08:05:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}