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Mount Pleasant rips South Stanly in girls' soccer
Photo by James Nix
Mount Pleasant's Amanda Lavook gets ahead of South Stanly's defenders on her way to scoring her first Tiger goal on Thursday night.
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Published: May 7, 2009
MOUNT PLEASANT — The Mount Pleasant girls soccer team isn't playing kickball any more.
First-year head coach Mike Buckpitt has seen the improvement the Tigers have made, something that was apparent in a 12-1 Rocky River Conference drubbing of South Stanly on Senior Night.
"The girls have gone from one level to another level," Buckpitt said. "We went from playing a kickball kind of thing. You saw us out here today trying to (execute) combination passing."
Freshman Amanda Lavook continued her stellar play, scoring five goals.
"Amanda is awesome," Buckpitt said. "She is Division I level; she's going to be. She comes from Pennsylvania. She played on an Italian club team up there."
This week alone, Lavook has scored 14 goals. Buckpitt reckons she is around 40 goals for the season.
One of the Tigers' four seniors, Michelle Procanyn, added three goals against the Rebel Bulls.
"She's been a very good senior leader," Buckpitt said. "She hustles. She gets goals because of her speed and her athletic mind.
"She's probably going to school to play volleyball, of course. She's just been great for us to go out there and be a senior leader."
Another Tigers senior, Jinny Helton, scored a goal off a penalty kick.
The other two Mount Pleasant seniors are Ciara Paige and Kamille Nunez.
Sophomore Casey Enderlein scored two goals and freshman Madison Burris added one.
"Casey is Division I level, too," Buckpitt said. "She plays for a premiere team here, FCCA.
"I've just a lot of talent at key positions. And we're really, really young."
In fact, the Tigers start four freshmen and a sophomore, but will finish either third or fourth in the Rocky River 1A/2A Conference and will be the second-seeded 2A team from the league in the NCHSAA playoffs.
The Tigers (14-6, 14-4) have a home game next Wednesday to start the playoffs against a wild-card team.
This isn't the first soccer team Buckpitt has coached to a higher level.
His philosophy?
"Practice playing outside of your comfort zone," he said. "Doing things outside of the box. I try to have a controlled fun practice as far as movement of the ball at all times and movement of your feet at all times.
"Playing at a game level at practice instead of just running through drills."
It works, as the Tigers are proving.
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