Gallery: East Providence routs rival Johnston in girls' soccer

DeOliveira nets a hat-trick as Townies dominate Panthers

By Mike Rego
Posted 9/12/19

EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School girls’ soccer team thumped newfound rival Johnston, 8-1, in a Division II contest on a chilly late summer afternoon Thursday, Sept. 12, at Pierce …

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Gallery: East Providence routs rival Johnston in girls' soccer

DeOliveira nets a hat-trick as Townies dominate Panthers

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EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School girls’ soccer team thumped newfound rival Johnston, 8-1, in a Division II contest on a chilly late summer afternoon Thursday, Sept. 12, at Pierce Memorial Stadium.

Senior standout Alyssa Oliveira led an early onslaught, scoring twice in the first four minutes of the game en route to netting a hat-trick. Ashley Cassino-Henriquez also had two goals in the first half as the Townies cruised to a 7-0 lead by the break. Olivia Williams, Hailee Manteiga and Jordyn Brogan accounted for the other three E.P. tallies.

The Townies and Panthers, who sparked a rivalry in previous years atop the Division III ranks, find themselves at the opposite ends of the early season D-II table. East Providence improved to 3-0-0 with 9 points while Johnston remained winless at 0-0-3.

DeOliveira put the Townies on top seconds into the contest when she converted a penalty kick after the Panthers were called for a handball inside the 18-yard box. Three minutes later, E.P.’s superb midfielder potted a shot off a partial break to put her side up 2-0.

Cassino-Henriquez got into the act next, when her initial shot was blocked by Johnston keeper Hailey Gaunt, but it deflected immediately off the E.P.’s senior forward's leg back into the Panther net. Savannah Feola started the sequence with a cross into the box towards mate Cassino-Henriquez from the right corner.

Williams made it 4-0 Townies in the 16th minute and after she battled three Panthers, including Gaunt, for possession just inside the 18. Cassino-Henriquez next made it 5-0 when she finished off a clean breakaway.

Manteiga was the next Townie to score. The freshman defender, inserted into the starting lineup just prior to the season opener, netted her first varsity goal when she headed in a Briana Lopes corner kick.

DeOliviera ended the first half by completing her hat-trick with a goal in the final minute of the period.

To say the opening 40 minutes were one-sided, and the game as a whole, would be an understatement. East Providence put 22 shots towards the Johnston net alone in the period while allowing the Panthers none. If not for a few nice Gaunt saves and the Townies hitting two crossbars and a post, the score would have been even worse.

Eight minutes into the second half Brogan scored her goal. A late tally by Johnston’s Kaylee Davenport against back-up E.P. keeper KayLee Davenport kept the Panthers from being shut out.

Townies’ starting goalie Mia Jackson did not need to make a save in some 60 minutes of action. Feola finished the day with two assists, Lopes and Lily Budnick had one each.

The Townies play next against the Lincoln School Monday, Sept. 16, at the Lynx's Faxon Farm sports complex in Rehoboth.

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