left to right: B-CC goalie Kate Flaming, coach Jenna Siegel and midfielder Liza Amling.
By Robert Klemko
Bethesda-Chevy Chase coach Jenna Siegel earned her hundredth win in dramatic fashion Friday, beating an undefeated Poolesville team 19-8 for the Barons fifth win in a row.
Siegel earned her first 94 wins at Quince Orchard in an eight year coaching stint during which the Cougars lost just 20 games. This spring, Siegel inherited a program that returned just two starters from a year ago.
"It's a huge milestone and I'm pleased to be working with such a great
group of people and they're just peaking at the right time," Siegel said. "Hopefully I can make it 106 before the regular season is over."
The Barons' five-game winning streak has been due in large part to the play of junior midfielder Liza Amling and senior goalie Kate Flaming. Amling scored a team-high six goals Friday as Flaming saved five shots. Amling scored the Barons' second and third goals from nine-meter shots on their way to an early 4-0 lead. After Poolesville pulled within a goal four minutes later, Amling and junior captain Mimmy Wenzel notched back-to-back goals to pull away.
"We usually come out with a bang but there's always a little let up...
coach calls it 'checking out,' but we're trying to work on that," Amling said. "Things
seemed to click today."
Siegel's team did the majority of its 'checking out' in the beginning of the season with early-April losses to Wootton, National Cathedral and Quince Orchard that put the Barons at 1-3. Since then, the B-CC has not scored fewer than 17 goals in five straight wins.
"We have been trying to work on working through mental lapses and today,
although we had some, we weren't as vulnerable... we were making them
before it got dangerous," Siegel said.
Poolesville drops to 8-1 with pivotal matchups against Sherwood and Whitman looming.
"We had great defense in the end and our goalie Erika Gonzalez made some great saves today," senior midfielder Cori Rosenberg said. "It was a game that we thought would be close but in the end kind of fell apart but we can learn from it."