Mariah Deschino hashed all three of Cape’s goals on the road versus Yarmouth Saturday, Sept. 12, leading her team to a shutout victory and a 2-1 record on the season so far.

Yarmouth slips to 1-2 this year.

Cape head coach Craig Fannan was happy with his girls’ performance, especially coming, as it did, on the heels of an ugly L. “We responded well,” Fannan said. “We lost two-nil down at York, and literally probably had two shots on goal.

“We always know coming to Yarmouth is going to be a tough one. We always know they’re going to play good soccer and it’s going to be an exciting game. They didn’t disappoint; they played great. The score at three-nil probably doesn’t reflect the play.”

Deschino needed just seven minutes to tally her first goal, a bull’s-eye from wide low right that sailed across left to the top corner of Yarmouth keeper Lydia Guay’s net. Deschino notched her second at 15:28, picking up a forward pass from midfield, juking past Guay, and racing forward to tuck the ball home.

Deschino redirected credit for her hat trick to the rest of her squad: “The whole team worked together; it went from defense to midfield to forward, and I ended up with the goals. It wasn’t just me.

“We were passing very well today, and connecting as a team.”

“For all the goals, she worked hard to get in behind,” said Fannan of Deschino. “But her work right throughout the game was fantastic, not letting their defenders play out, and working across the line.”

Yarmouth emerged in the second half looking rabidly determined; they controlled play for almost the entirety of the opening 15 minutes, holding the ball in Cape’s end. But Cape’s defense never collapsed. Keeper Tessa Goldstein didn’t even need to turn many, if any, saves in the stretch.

“They possess the ball very well,” said Fannan of Yarmouth. “That’s probably the best in the three years that I’ve been around that they possessed the ball. They knocked it back, they played it at midfield.

“But we were organized. We never got split open…In the past, they found a big switch, but our fullbacks were staying aware to it.

“There was a lot of corners, which caused a few issues, because they’ve got great deliveries, but we defended magnificently, and I can’t think of any clear-cut chances – two in the first half that they had from inside the box, maybe.”

“We knew they were going to come back out very, very tough,” said Deschino. “So we had to come back out and defend, as a team. We knew they were going to be fast, and able to pass around us. We had to stay connected and defend, all together.”

Deschino earned her third, with 1:59 remaining in the game, on a break up the center-left side of the field.

Cape next faced off at home with Poland (1-2) on Tuesday the 15th, after Current Publishing’s print deadlines. They host Falmouth (2-1) on Friday the 18th at 6 p.m. Yarmouth welcomed Freeport (1-2) on Tuesday, and travel to York (2-0-1) on Friday.

Cape’s Kate Briggs gets a step ahead on Yarmouth’s Sara D’Appolonia in pursuit of the ball.Cape keeper Tessa Goldstein gets her hands on the ball as Clipper Eavan O’Neill and Caper Grace Gillian crash forward.Katie Clemmer of Yarmouth and Sarah O’Conner of Cape vie for a header in their teams’ matchup on Saturday evening.Sophia Harpool of Yarmouth shoulders into Cape’s Riley Dall, trying to get around her as they chase the action.Caper Presli Piscopo and Clipper Callie Decker each look to settle a bouncing ball and take control on Saturday evening.Yarmouth’s Amanda Murray boots a ball up and around an incoming Caper in the Clippers 3-0 home loss to Cape on Saturday evening.Cape’s Mariah Deschino – seen here locked in combat with Yarmouth’s Sara D’Appolonia – scored all three of the game’s goals on Saturday evening.

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