Fall Sports: Checking in with Girls Soccer

Team looks forward to a competitive season

The girls soccer team huddles before a recent game.

The girls soccer team huddles before a recent game.

For Coach Thomas Quinn, this Girls Soccer season is not about playing for a certain record. According to Quinn, the goal is just to play hard and competitive soccer every game.  With the exception of a tough loss against Pascack Valley, the Girls Soccer Team (4-1) has cruised. The season got off to a quick start with a 7-0 win against Bergenfield. While the girls lost 3 to 1 to Pascack Valley, they were able to keep the game close, even threatening to tie the game repeatedly over the final fifteen minutes. Meanwhile, senior captain Caroline O’Sullivan, senior Erin Harnisch, and sophomore Jennifer Fernandez have found their names on the scoresheet after seemingly every game . Through 5 games, Harnisch has 4 goals while O’Sullivan and Fernandez have 3 apiece. According to Quinn, other players to watch this year include senior captain Jordan Decrescente and seniors Cleo Pontone and Kristine Hawkins.

Scoresheet:

  1. Old Tappan 7 Bergenfield 0 (9/7)  Goals: Jordan Decrescente and Erin Harnisch (both two), Taylor Newman, Jennifer Fernandez, Caroline O’Sullivan
  2. Pascack Valley 3 Old Tappan 1 (9/9)  Goals: Erin Harnisch
  3. Old Tappan 3 Tenafly 1 (9/12)  Goals: Jennifer Fernandez; Caroline O’Sullivan; Claire Rosenstein
  4. Demarest 1 Old Tappan 2 (9/16)  Goals: Ellie Olivo and Jennifer Fernandez
  5. Indian Hills 2 Old Tappan 3 (9/18)  Erin Harnisch, Kristine Hawkins, Caroline O’Sullivan