Prep soccer: Colony boys, girls edge Wasilla

The Colony Knights scored a pair of slim victories over their Valley and conference rival last week.

The Colony boys and girls both edged the Wasilla Warriors 1-0 in a pair of matches Thursday evening at Wasilla High School.

Quinn Dowd scored the goal for the Colony boys. Mason Irsik earned the shoutout.

Colony outshot Wasilla 30-2, but Sawyer DeKruff made 29 saves for the Warriors.

Anika Lang supplied the game-winner for the Colony girls. Savannah Anderson notched the shutout. Ella Hale had 16 saves for Wasilla.

The Wasilla girls rebounded with a 2-0 win over Eagle River on Friday. Alia Shane and Grace Weisz scored. Makenna Hanson finished with an assist. Hale had five saves for the shutout.

South Anchorage swept Colony on Saturday. Both varsity teams were missing multiple starters. The South girls won 8-0 and the boys notched a 2-0 victory.

Last week, Palmer scored a 3-1 win over rival Wasilla.

Tobin Miller scored in the first half for the Moose, with an assist from Fischer Adams in the 20th minute. Aiden Kent followed up with the goal about three minutes later. Aidan Houser grabbed the assist.

Ryder Clark scored Wasilla's lone goal four minutes into the first half.

Aidan Houser your finished up the scoring with his header off a cross from Aiden Kent.

Also last week, the Colony Knights used a second-half rally to get past the Chugiak Mustangs 2-1 in Chugiak.

Blake Carveth scored the match-winner from 15 yards out with a minute left in regulation to give the Knights the win. Isaac Villa tied the game on a direct kick from 20 yards out with 10 minutes left in the match.

Chugiak took a 1-0 lead in the first half.

The Mustangs scored a 4-2 win over the Colony girls.

Emily Moses and Asha Gertesien scored for Colony. Avrie Giegerich bagged both assists.

Goalkeeper Savannah Anderson finished with 16 saves.

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