Lady Camels advance to 10th Region Championship game on merits of 5-1 win over Harrison County Fillies.

 

The game will be a rematch of the 37th District Championship game with Brossart, win which the Lady Camels prevailed 1-0 in PKs.

 

The 10th Region Championship game will be played at 4pm at Clark County High School.

Championship game scheduled for 2:30 at Scott High School.

We went down to cover both matches. Our story and our site link Campbell makes short work of Harrison - Story:

 

WINCHESTER, Ky. – Campbell County had beaten Harrison County by three goals earlier in the season, and the Camels one-upped themselves on Wednesday with a four-goal victory.

 

Campbell County put the outcome to rest early, scoring four times in the first 21 minutes en route to a 5-1 win over the Thorobreds in a Region 10 semifinal at Clark County's Strode Middle School.

 

“That's what we talked about before the game, we'd beaten them earlier in the year, and we wanted to make sure they didn't believe after 10, 15 minutes,” Camels coach Dave Morris said. “They did that well, we were disappointed that we really didn't finish them off but they really weren't in the game.”

 

Brossart edged host Clark County, 1-0 in the earlier regional semifinal, setting up a third straight final between the intra-county foes.

 

Off a corner kick by junior midfielder Taylor Jolly, sophomore midfielder Natalie Fausz tapped in the Camels' first goal in traffic from the goal mouth just 6:28 into the match.

 

Campbell County's next three goals came in a 4:55 span.

 

Junior Holly Schwarber's corner kick went through the Thorobreds' keeper's hands at the 15:26 mark to make it 2-0.

 

Just 1:58 later, senior Carolyn Bertsch tipped a pass from sophomore Becca Cline home, again from point-blank range, to extend the Camels' lead to three.

 

After three non-forceful goals, Jolly tipped a shot, top shelf, that slipped just under the crossbar with 19:39 remaining in the opening half.

 

That was all the scoring for both teams until the final five minute-plus of regulation. Harrison County's keeper tried to intercept a centering pass, but Fausz buried her second goal of the game to put Campbell County up by five with 5:06 to play.

 

Thorobreds freshman Kelby Gaunce ended the Camels' playoff shutout streak with 1:41 left when he broke in and slipped one into the bottom corner of the net.

 

So after the 4-0 start, the teams essentially played to a 1-1 tie the final 59-plus minutes.

 

“When it's one-and-done, just advance, so there was never a question of who was going to win the game,” Morris said. “It's a good thing.”

 

In addition to Fausz's two goals, Jolly finished with a goal and an assist.

 

The Mustangs have ended Campbell County's season the last three years, all by one goal. In 2011 Brossart knocked the Camels out in the district tournament, the Mustangs won in PKs in 2012 and blanked Campbell County, 1-0 last season.

 

“Obviously beating someone three times in one year is tough,” Morris said. “But I think we match up well with them this year, and our girls are extremely confident in themselves. Hopefully we'll come out and play well on Saturday and go home with a regional championship, which was our goal at the beginning of the year, so we're where we want to be.”

 

The match has been moved from Clark County to Scott, and it will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.

 

“I'm just looking to do to them what they did to us last year – beat them all three games,” Fausz said.

 

HALFTIME: 4-0. GOALS: CC—Fausz 2, Schwarber, Bertsch, Jolly. HC—Gaunce. RECORDS: Campbell County 17-5-1, Harrison County 10-8-1.