Falcons eliminate upstart Gladiators, 8-0

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR.

MVI Sports

The Brownsville girls soccer team used speed and experience to keep South Allegheny on their heels most of the night en route to an 8-0 victory in the first round of the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs at California High School.

Senior Lindsay Sethman scored three first-half goals, all coming on rebounds, to get the Falcons going early. Junior Tessa Dellarose, a North Carolina recruit, added a hat trick and freshman Ava Kovscek had two goals and an assist for Brownsville (9-4).

Sethman, who would have been a golfer this season if Brownsville had a team, is playing soccer for the first time as a senior. She scored her first goal in the Falcons final regular season game against Beth-Center.

“I always tell our players that it is the ‘others’ who are going to help catapult us to the next level,” Falcons coach Cedar Bruchante said. “Those x-factors have to step up. She was in a great position tonight and she got a hat trick. Especially being a golfer, who does that?”

It brings to an end a season in which the Gladiators turned some heads by making the playoffs after only having three wins a year ago.

“I thought if we were able to get through the first 10 minutes of the game we would be all right,” South Allegheny coach Andrew Dyson said. “But I have to give the girls all the credit. They did everything I asked them to do this season. We made the playoffs and that was the goal.”

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