MIDDLE SCHOOL SOCCER
The cold and rain couldn’t stop a full day of middle school soccer on Saturday at Greyhound Field as Jones County hosted the Tournament of Roses tournament. Boys and girls teams from Jones County, GMC Prep and Crawford County took the field with Jones County’s middle school boys beating GMC 1-0 and Crawford County 10-0 with the girls also taking a 10-0 win against Crawford County and taking a 6-1 win against GMC Prep.
In the girls match against GMC, Emory Sanford scored three goals, Cari Green had one and Isabella Bodnarchuk added two. In the 10-0 win against Crawford County, Sanford scored four goals, Bodnarchuk and Ava Tam each had two with one being added by Ava Gross and Brooklyn Scott in a game in which the sixth grade members of the team were on the field to close out the win.
In the boys win against GMC, the lone goal from GMC came from Will Utley, scoring the team’s first goal of the season for the third year in a row. In the 10-0 triumph against Crawford County, goals were scored by Gage Pittman, Jacob Watts, DJ Marlow, Will Utley, Isaac Villareal, Kaleb Storey and Caleb Waters.
Both Jones County teams play Feb. 22 at Byron and host GMC on Feb. 23.
