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Clarksville blanks Oakland

Clarksville’s girls soccer team clicked on all cylinders at the Class AAA soccer tournament Wednesday, pounding Oakland 5-0 in the quarterfinals at Richard Siegel Soccer Complex.

“It was beautiful,” Clarksville coach Jeff Jordan said. “It was nice to play on a great surface and it showed the way we were able to make runs and make passes. Every girl played great. It wasn’t just one or two or three players. It was the entire team. I thought we looked really good out there.”

Clarksville (22-0-3) faces Collierville in the semifinals at 4 p.m. Thursday. The winner will play for the state championship Saturday morning.

“There’s only four teams left so everyone is a great team,” Jordan said. “You’ve got two Midstate teams and two teams from the west left. We’ll have to play our best to beat Collierville and if we get a chance to face Houston (in the state title), that would be David vs. Goliath. ”

On a water-logged Field 1, the Lady Patriots (11-5-2) opened up on defense on the wetter end. While it did not slow down a potent Clarksville offense, to the tune of a 2-0 lead in less than 13 minutes, it did make Oakland look sluggish.

“This field, that first half, you step and you sink in about four inches. That’s something that made it kind of difficult on the girls starting out,” junior goalkeeper Emma Grace Goldman said. “But there’s no excuse for this kind of loss. That’s not who we are, that’s not the kind of team we are.”

Clarksville’s first two goals came within five minutes of each other. The final two goals of the half came in about the same time span. Oakland managed just two shots on goal in the first half and were outshot 16-6 for the game.

“We tried to keep them in front of us,” Boynton said. “But they are fast and they are great possessing the ball.”

Lexie Hayes got the ball rolling after being fed a pass from Ella Baggett with 32:40 left in the first half. Baggett pushed the lead to 2-0 off an assist from Salera Jordan with 27:13 left in the first half.

Baggett’s second goal of the night made it 3-0 with 9:15 left in the first half.

Salera Jordan got in on the scoring with 6:55 left when she moved around three Oakland defenders for an unassisted goal and a 4-0 Clarksville lead.

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