Gameday Focus: Girl’s Soccer vs Haddonfield SJG2 Final

Gameday Focus: Girl’s Soccer vs Haddonfield SJG2 Final

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The girl’s soccer team hosts Haddonfield today in the SJG2 final at 2pm at Cinnaminson High School. Here is our Gameday Focus.

When: Friday, November 11 at 2pm

Where: Cinnaminson High School

#1 Pirates 19-2-1

Cinnaminson is set to host the South, Group 2 final this afternoon after rolling through the first three rounds of the playoffs.

The Pirates have outscored their opponents 12-0 in their first three postseason matches.

Those were wins over #16 Lower Cape May, #9 Oakcrest and #5 Middle Township.

In those three shutout wins the Pirates never faltered defensively and only allowed five shots on goal total.

Lower Cape May did not register a shot in the opening-round loss to the Pirates.

Cinnaminson has now won five in a row since a 1-0 loss to Haddonfield in the second round of the Coaches Cup.

The Pirates have outscored their opponents 22-0 during those five wins and have registered 16 total shutouts on the season.

Cinnaminson has outscored its opponents 63-9 on the season.

The Pirates are looking for their first sectional title since the 2012 season (more below).

#2 Bulldogs 23-1

Haddonfield’s only loss of the season came in the semifinals of the Coaches Cup to Lenape by a 2-0 score.

Since then, the Bulldogs have reeled off three in a row, all in the South, Group 2 tournament.

Haddonfield defeated #15 Manasquan 5-0 in the first round, #7 West Deptford 2-1 in the second round and #3 Deptford 3-2 in the semifinals.

Haddonfield ran the table (10-0) in the Colonial-Liberty Division.

Madison Bee has 31 goals on the season after a hat trick in the 3-2 win over Deptford.

In fact, that was Bee’s second hat trick in the playoffs. Her first came in the 5-0 win over Manasquan to open the tourney.

Bee had the lone goal for the Bulldogs in their 1-0 win over Cinnaminson in the Coaches Cup.

The Bulldogs are looking for their first sectional title since 2009 when the also won the Group 2 state championship.

Head to Head

We already discussed the last time these two teams met; a 1-0 win for Haddonfield in the second round of the Coaches Cup.

The last time the Pirates took down the Bulldogs was in the second round of the South, Group 2 Tournament back in 2012.

The win came by a 1-0 score.

Cinnaminson was the #8 seed and Haddonfield was the #1 seed coming off a bye in the first round.

The Pirates went on to beat #3 Woodstown in the sectional final.

Back in 2009, Cinnaminson and Haddonfield met in the Group 2 state semifinal. The Bulldogs came away with a 4-0 win en route to the title.

Bookmark this post and use it for live updates throughout the match this afternoon.

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Jim Vassallo
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Jim is the creator and editor of Cinn City Sports. He also created At the Dish, Life With Tony and Enzo and is the owner of JAVFreelancing. He coached baseball for five years, three at his former high school (Holy Cross in Delran, NJ) and two at prominent Division III program Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. He has worked for the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, NJ; Metro Networks in Bala Cynwyd, PA; and was the play-by-play announcer for the Camden Riversharks of the Independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball for two seasons (2007-2008) on Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM, the student-run radio station at Rowan University. Jim earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and minor in Journalism from Rowan University in 2008. While in school he was the Assistant Sports Director at WGLS for two years and the Sports Director for one year. He also covered the football, baseball, softball and both basketball teams for the school newspaper 'The Whit.' He is the former Sports Editor for the Cinnaminson and Moorestown Patch websites. Jim lives in New Jersey with his wife Nicole, sons Tony and Enzo and dog Phoebe. He can be reached at jimvassallo@cinncitynews.com

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