Regulation time ticked down in Friday’s scoreless girls soccer game between Fauquier and Kettle Run. With 5:48 left, Falcons sophomore Megan Dietrich found the net to seal a 1-0 win.

The tight game followed a recent pattern for Fauquier. Its previous five matches finished with one-goal margins, including a last-minute win over Liberty by the same score on May 9. 

“They’ve stood tall this year and always had the belief,” Coach Rick Ashley said of his team. “They always feel like it’s gonna come.”

The teams exchanged long-distance shots off the crossbar early in the game. Neither squad gained control as the game progressed. 

A mistake in the Cougars’ net proved to be the difference. 

Falcons junior Laura Cornish took a corner kick. As Kettle Run goalie Jackie Doores reached for the ball, it slipped off her fingertips. 

Dietrich quickly used her off foot to put the game away. 

“I went for the header but it wasn’t there,” she said. “The goalie tipped the ball and I hit it with my left foot. . . .I could kind of see it but I was surprised.”

A rematch of Fauquier’s 1-0 win on April 8, Friday’s match proved little discrepancy between the two teams.

Officials rarely stopped play in the hard-fought tilt, much to the chagrin of Cougars Coach Elizabeth Martin.

“It was a physical game; I would say a lot about it but I probably shouldn’t,” the second-year coach said. 

Ashley knew his team needed to prevent Kettle Run’s long cross-field passes to win. He challenged his team to use their toughness before they boarded the bus in Warrenton. 

After the win, he praised junior midfielder Cassidy Wagoner for her response to the task.

She repeatedly hounded the home team’s forwards throughout play.

“We had (Wagoner) drop back and she was just incredible,” Ashley said. “We’re not a big team, we have to be tough.”

The victory marked the Falcons’ (9-5) seventh in their last eight games. They host Brentsville on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the regular season finale. 
Regulation time ticked down in Friday’s scoreless girls soccer game between Fauquier and Kettle Run. With 5:48 left, Falcons sophomore Megan Dietrich found the net to seal a 1-0 win.

The tight game followed a recent pattern for Fauquier. Its previous five matches finished with one-goal margins, including a last-minute win over Liberty by the same score on May 9. 

“They’ve stood tall this year and always had the belief,” Coach Rick Ashley said of his team. “They always feel like it’s gonna come.”

The teams exchanged long-distance shots off the crossbar early in the game. Neither squad gained control as the game progressed. 

A mistake in the Cougars’ net proved to be the difference. 

Falcons junior Laura Cornish took a corner kick. As Kettle Run goalie Jackie Doores reached for the ball, it slipped off her fingertips. 

Dietrich quickly used her off foot to put the game away. 

“I went for the header but it wasn’t there,” she said. “The goalie tipped the ball and I hit it with my left foot. . . .I could kind of see it but I was surprised.”

A rematch of Fauquier’s 1-0 win on April 8, Friday’s match proved little discrepancy between the two teams.

Officials rarely stopped play in the hard-fought tilt, much to the chagrin of Cougars Coach Elizabeth Martin.

“It was a physical game; I would say a lot about it but I probably shouldn’t,” the second-year coach said. 

Ashley knew his team needed to prevent Kettle Run’s long cross-field passes to win. He challenged his team to use their toughness before they boarded the bus in Warrenton. 

After the win, he praised junior midfielder Cassidy Wagoner for her response to the task.

She repeatedly hounded the home team’s forwards throughout play.

“We had (Wagoner) drop back and she was just incredible,” Ashley said. “We’re not a big team, we have to be tough.”

The victory marked the Falcons’ (9-5) seventh in their last eight games. They host Brentsville on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the regular season finale. 

Martin’s team will also close the season Tuesday. The Cougars (7-5-1) travel to face Culpeper at 7:30 p.m.