Youth/High School Soccer
Archbishop Carroll girls improve to 5-0 with overtime winner
After leading for much of the day, Archbishop Carroll had to dig deep to recover from conceding a late equalizer, regroup and pull off some overtime magic to continue their flawless start to the 2025 campaign.
Colleen Lloyd gave the Patriots an early lead over Central Bucks West with a well taken strike. The goal was the senior’s fifth of the season and until Janelle Blokker headed home a corner was holding up as the potential winner.
The winner instead came from senior Greta Potten on a curling free kick that got over the head of the CB West goalkeeper and went in.
“It was really just about placing the ball where I wanted it to be,” Potten said of the goal. “I just had to keep my cool and make sure I got in on frame.”
Potten said the connection they’ve built as a team helped them weather the storm and get it to the decisive moment in overtime.
“Seeing how many chances they had and how many chances they could have scored, I think it kind of was like a reality check, because they could have scored way more,” Potten said. “So it was kind of on us to fix our defense to make sure we were playing them so that they wouldn’t score again. It was important to just keep up the momentum and know that we could come back from this and we always have been uplifting each other and just making sure we’re playing our best together.”
CB West had a 9-3 advantage on corners on the day and spent the better part of the final minutes of the second half with repeated chances in the final third.
“They’re a really good team, well-coached and they were dangerous the whole game,” Carroll head coach Tom Quintois said. “And we have a good team, and we hung there the whole time, and then found a way to get the win.”
Carroll will face Kennett HS on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. at The Proving Grounds. CB West visits Souderton Area HS later today.
