HAMILTON For those who did not get the chance to see Aubrey Shaulis play soccer for the Peddie School this fall, you were missing out. When matched with about 30 of her peers Sunday in the Mercer County Soccer Hall of Fame/Glenn “Mooch” Myernick Senior Girls’ Game at Al Cowell Sr. Field in Veterans Park, all Shaulis did was score two goals, assist on another, then move to goal and make four saves to help the Blue team pull away from the White squad for a 9-2 victory. The event, which honors the memory of Myernick, who grew up playing soccer in Lawrence and went on to earn national and international fame as a player and coach before dying suddenly 19 years ago, took the opportunity to also honor Bruce Angebranndt, one of the Mooch Senior Games’ key committee members who passed away suddenly this fall, by having the clubs wear Blue and White jerseys this year (as opposed to the usual Red and White jerseys remembering Myernick). Shaulis helped give the opposition the blues from the time she opened scoring 6: 50 into the game. Running alongside a very talented entourage from Princeton Day School, Shaulis added an assist with 5: 10 left in the first half when she led the Panthers’ Zuri Graham for a goal, then scored another 1: 50 after the break to put the Blue team up, 5-0. PDS’ Jules Hartmann and Emma Burns added first-half tallies. “I like playing forward, but we had a strong team,” Shaulis said. “I just wanted to go out here and have some fun one last time this year as I begin preparing for college.” While she is not sure what role soccer will play in her future, Shaulis, who battled back from turf toe to help head coach Matt Roach’s Falcons go 9-5-3 this season, showed she is very capable wherever she is asked to play on the field, including when she moved into net midway through the second half to help stymie any thoughts the White team may have had of mounting a comeback. Even with all that Shaulis did, the hardest working player of the day was, hands down, Hopewell Valley goalkeeper Eva Giambanco. As the lone pure goalie in the game, Giambanco spent the whole game in net for the White side facing the Blue team’s relentless assault and making 12 saves. “I wanted to come out and have fun one last time this year. That’s why I spent the whole game laughing,” said Giambanco, who also plays softball for the Bulldogs. “I didn’t mind that I had to do so much work. I was just happy to get to play with people I had played against all season.” That was the big theme of the day with the direction of MCHOF standouts who donated their time to help with coaching and running the event smoothly like Bobby Smith, Rico Scardelletti, George Tiger, Bruce Brodowski, Art Napolitano, the Fink brothers (John, Joe, Sid and Bird), Tony Rosica and Greg Harvell. The Blue girls made sure they had plenty of fun with Notre Dame’s Avery Whittle adding a goal and two assists, plus the Irish’s Anna Guido adding a goal and an assist, along with Princeton Day’s Nica Martin. Ava “A. J.” Szalbofka also scored to give every Panther in the game a goal. Meanwhile, at the other end of the field, West Windsor-Plainsboro South’s Meadow Boateng helped make things a little more interesting for the White team in the second half when she connected on a pair of goals with 30: 30 and 6: 02 remaining off leads from Hopewell’s Delainey Ross and Hightstown’s Liz Reisbord, respectively. White 0 2 2 Blue 4 5 9 Goals: Boateng 2 (W), Shaulis 2, Hartmann, Graham, Burns, Guido, Whittle, Szalbofka, Martin (B); Assists: Ross, Reisbord (W), Guido, Shaulis, Whittle 2, Martin (B). Shots: 11 (W), 21 (B); Saves: Giambanco 12 (W), Gladkowski 2, Daley 1, Szalbolfka 1, Shaulis 4, Muenzen 1 (B).
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