Girls tie Holdbrook 2-2, boys dominate Avon 11-0 and Holbrook 6-0

Photos by Richard W. Dionne, Jr.
Posted 10/1/25

Freshman striker Lily Veracka and eighth grade forward Sofia Babb each scored  as the Westport girls soccer team knotted Holbrook 2-2 during a league home game on Tuesday afternoon.  …

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Girls tie Holdbrook 2-2, boys dominate Avon 11-0 and Holbrook 6-0

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Freshman striker Lily Veracka and eighth grade forward Sofia Babb each scored  as the Westport girls soccer team knotted Holbrook 2-2 during a league home game on Tuesday afternoon. 
Veracka who leads the team in scoring with 13 goals and 3 assists for 29 points, scored as the two teams traded goals in the first half. 

Early in the second half, the striker dribbled the ball down the right side of the field, chased by Holbrook defenders. From 25-yards out, she lofted a cross. that clanged off the cross-bar and bounced back in front of the goal mouth. Babb crashing the goal, kicked the ball into the netting to give the Wildcats a 2-1 lead. 

Holbrook turned up the pressure  on Wildcats junior goalkeeper Morgan Pacheco, who made six saves, and scored a late goal to tie the game. Pacheco who has posted three shutouts to date, has made 58 saves in ten games allowing 21 goals as the Wildcats fall to 5-4-1. 

The undeted boys dominate Avon 11-0 and Holbrook 6-0 in back to back games. 

Tiago Rodrigues scored a hattrick as the Westport soccer team Dominated Avon 11-0 in an away game on Monday afternoon. Austin Raposo and Gavin DaSilva each scored 2 goals and Carter Couto, Preston Carvalho and Joey Guild each scored 1 goal. 

Westport also beat Holbrook 6-0 in an away game on Tuesday afternoon. Goalkeeper Elijah McGonigle  earned his fifth and sixth shutouts of the season as the Wildcats improved their record to 8-0. 

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