They scored early, just 9' in and often in the opening game of the Concacaf Women's U-20 Championship during their 9-0 win over a hapess Cuba team. Next gen. athletes were front and center with Trinity Rodman daughter to Basketball's Dennis dishing out a trio of assists, a pair to Brianna Pinto, her father a stellar soccer player out of Brentwood and the 2019 US Soccer Young Female Player of the Year. Mia Fishel tied a record with a quartet of goals equalling the mark of Kelly WIlson, Lindsay Tarpley, & Heather O'Reilly in the U-19's World Cup Qualifiers as did Kia McNeil in these same games, another at the U-20 level bagged 4, in a friendly that being Civana Kuhlmann. Such balance today as 5 scored, a pair multiple times, that must make HC Laura Harvey happy as she gets her first win with this team. Experience no doubt played a role is this dominant showing with 10 players already having played in a Youth World Cup, all vying for one of but two passages out of this tourney to the World Cup. Even the subs got in on the scoring as Summer Yates & Samantha Meza both found the net.
Monday at 3p.m. ET brings up the Dominican Republic, hosts of the games, then Wed, 6p.m. ET Honduras will take on the US.
Kwikk Kixx:
- This 9-0 result was the biggest win by the US in an opening game in this tourney since a 2004 thumping of DR, 14-0
-Now 3-0-0 against Cuba in these games, a 24-0 goal differential, this game being just 1 goal over the average.
-GK Claudia Dickey, in but her first U-20 game had another first, a shut out.
-#9, #9, 29th US shutout in the Championship and 19th game with 5 or more goals.
-Pinto is tops in the team with caps, this was #33 for her time with the U-20's