Dominant Norwin Wins WPIAL Girls AAA Title

By: HSSN Staff
Saturday, November 7, 2015 | 1:27 AM

The top-seeded Norwin Knights continued their incredible defensive run with a dominatin 3-0 over the Upper Saint Clair Panthers at Highmark Stadium at Station Square Friday night to win their first WPIAL girls soccer championship since 1997.

The Knights dominated throughout finally cracking the scoreboard in the 21st minute of play when Emily Harrigan headed a perfect cross from Lexie Kolano to the upper left hand corner of the goal behind USC keeper Nikki Gibbons for a 1-0 lead. As has been the case 18 times this season, that single goal would be all the Knights needed. The goal for Harrigan was her 19th of the season.

Norwin put the game away early in the second half scoring a pair in the first ten minutes. Alyssa Victor notched her 15th of the season off a penalty kick in the sixth minute of play, then just over four minutes later Abbey Tarosky banged home a goal the deflected in off a USC defender to cap the scoring for Norwin.

The Knights improve to 22-0-0 with the win and, continue an amazing defensive season that has seen them allow just four goals in 22 games thus far, an average of 0.181 goals per game. Sophomore keeper Sam Wexell notched her 16th shutout on the 2015 campaign. Upper Saint Clair falls to 16-2-1 despite the best efforts of Emma Hasco and leading scorer Maddie Rocks. Both teams continue on into the PIAA tournament beginning Tuesday. Some stats will give you an idea of how dominant that Norwin defense was. USC managaed just three shots on goal. They got five corners all in the second half.

Tags: Upper St. Clair