Strong Start: Sabers find out hard way that HB has firepower
Hollis Brookline's Addison Fyfe holds off Souhegan's Greta Caulton during the Cavaliers' 6-0 win Tuesday in Hollis. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)
HOLLIS – Every win the Hollis Brookline High School girls soccer team gets this season has a Bow on it.
Yes, HB hasn’t forgotten last year’s Division II overtime semifinal loss to the Falcons of Bow High School, whom they do not play in the regular season.
But that hasn’t stopped the Cavs from letting that loss a season later fuel their fire, and the result is they’ve outscored their first two opponents by a combined 14-0, including Tuesday’s incredible 6-0 dominance over a respected Souhegan team that was opening its season.
“It’s disappointing we don’t play them because it’s usually the game that makes us better,” Cavs coach Peter Clarke said. “We think about them, we talk about them at lot at practice. We know them tactically enough that we know what we’re going to have to look like if we get a chance to see them again. And the youth adds more than one dimension to our attack, which I think we’re finding.”
Is it ever. Freshman Addison Fyfe scored three goals and sophomore Mckenna Maguire had a pair as the two fed off each other until Clarke pulled the reins back with the outcome basically decided.
HB was so dominant the Sabers did not have a single shot on goal, reducing Cavs goalie Bailey Dunn to a mere spectator. Her Souhegan counterpart, Kelsey Lockitt, didn’t have the same chance as she was busy racking up 14 saves.
“A lot of skill all over the place,” said Souhegan acting coach Dave Saxe, who was pulling double duty filling in for an ill Steve Hansberry as Saxe is the longtime Sabers boys coach and they were taking on HB later last night. “It was amazing.”
The Cavs’ offensive talent and ability to control the ball from the midfield on down forced Souhegan’s best player, Greta Caulton, to forego her offensive game and play as a fullback.
“It was her choice, actually,” Saxe said. “She’s one of our team leaders and I think it was the sound choice for today.”
It helped keep things to 2-0 at halftime, that and the fact the Cavs hit a post and a crossbar.
“You’re going to have to face Greta no matter where she is on the field,” Clarke said. “Our girls were saying at halftime, ‘How much space can she cover?'”
The tone was set early on when Maguire dribbled in on Lockitt point blank but just missed to her right in the game’s first minute. No matter, as Fyfe scored nearly 10 minutes in and Maguire got her first from 20 yards out in the 31st minute to make it 2-zip.
Of course the key is to keep the foot on the gas, and the Cavs, who should be tested Thursday on grass at Milford, did just that with four second half goals. Maguire simply walked through the defense for an easy tap in nearly two minutes in, and five minutes later Fyfe tapped in a rebound of a Maguire shot from the corner. She added one more, assisted by Molly Reardon at 24:53 and Paige Magnuszewski’s long range blast just inside of 10 minutes left finished the scoring. Yikes.

Souhegan goalie Kelsey Lockitt grimaces as a shot by Hollis Brookline’s Makenna Maguire is deflected to the keeper’s right early on in the 6-0 Cavs’ win Tuesday in Hollis. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)
“It was a challenge, but our team did really good possessing, we got through it and we just ended up scoring a lot,” Fyfe said.
“We want to be an attacking team,” Clarke said. “We were more of an attacking team last year than we’ve ever been, but this year we want to attack even more.”
And with five freshmen, there’s the energy to do it. Clarke knew after last year he had some good young players coming in.
“The last two years they told me we had some good players coming up,” he said, adding he was happy with last year’s crop that included Maguire before he was told this year’s might be even better.
“Individually, they’re as good, maybe even a little bit better, and there are more of them. Lucky man.”
He and his players just can’t see Bow on the field for the nearly next two months, but they’ll be watching from afar.


