{"id":29610,"date":"2025-09-26T09:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=29610"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:33:13","slug":"braves-make-it-seven-in-a-row-with-thrashing-of-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/braves-make-it-seven-in-a-row-with-thrashing-of-canterbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves make it seven in a row with thrashing of Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A vastly different Canterbury side struggled to find any foothold against the Bellmont Braves Thursday night, dropping a rematch of last year’s sectional semifinals to coach Steve Lee’s team by a 6-0 margin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playing on the Cavaliers’ practice field because of a water issue on the main pitch, the Braves got an early goal from Oni Krueckeberg, but it was all they had to show at halftime, despite possessing the ball for more than 80% of the opening forty minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Captain Bri Converset and the Bellmont back line kept their seventh clean sheet in a row Thursday at Canterbury. (Photo by Dane Fuelling)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was a much different second half, however, for the Braves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maggie Wilson scored twice in a matter of eight minutes to put the Braves up 3-0, taking advantage of a great cross by Kaitlyn Barton for one of the tallies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grace Ruble scored her second goal of the season in the second half for Bellmont. (Photo by Dane Fuelling)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grace Ruble then capitalized on a goalkeeping mistake by the Cavaliers’ backup keeper, knocking in a rebound for the team’s fourth goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coach Steve Lee has been experimenting with Ashley Bleke in the midfield in recent games. The sophomore is shown here playing a ball into the box in the first half. (Photo by Dane Fuelling)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alyvia Loshe spent some time at left back for the Braves Thursday as coach Steve Lee tinkered with his formation and lineup ahead of what he hopes to be a long postseason run. (Photo by Dane Fuelling)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lilly Alberding and Lanie French added late goals to drive the margin of victory up to six goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cavaliers underwent a coaching change in the offseason and saw many transfers away from the prestigious private school on Fort Wayne’s southwest side. The absence of Abby Eilers in goal left Canterbury with just one substitute on the bench. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emily Barton’s goalkeeping record this season has been phenomenal, keeping clean sheet after clean sheet for the Braves. (Photo by Dane Fuelling)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Emily Barton kept another clean sheet to continue the winning streak, wherein the Braves have not conceded a single goal in that span. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Krueckeberg’s first-half goal (see sequence below)<\/strong> was her team-leading 11th of the season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Braves’ final regular season fixture will be a meaningful one. They’ll play DeKalb in Decatur Monday on WZBD’s featured Game of the Week for the outright NE8 title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Lee and Rich Skaggs watch the action from the sideline for the Braves. (Photo by Dane Fuelling)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A vastly different Canterbury side struggled to find any foothold against the Bellmont Braves Thursday night, dropping a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,15,50,26],"class_list":["post-29610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-bellmont","tag-featured","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29621,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29610\/revisions\/29621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}