Camden-Rockport Girls Advances To Busline League Soccer Championship

Thomaston, Maine - The Oceanside West 8th grade Girls hosted Camden-Rockport Middle School in the Busline League Divisional Soccer Championship. In this game, Camden-Rockport had a great game by scoring two scores against Oceanside West. By Camden-Rockport scoring two scores allowed them to win the game and advance to Busline League Soccer Championship in Northport, Maine. Oceanside was left unable to score during this game with Camden-Rockport. Having said that the 8th Girls for Oceanside still played their hardest.

Game Summary by Camden-Rockport Middle School Coach Alex:

Oceanside 8th grade girls hosted the CRMS 8th grade girls in the Busline League North Championship Wednesday. The pitch was dry, the sun was out and there was little wind on a perfect day for a match.  Oceanside won the coin toss and elected to defend the goal. CRMS started with the ball and 1:29 into the game Izzy Gutheinz crossed the ball from the inside left of the box back to the right to about the 22 to Charlotte Messer. Messer cut once to the right and lofted a ball over the keeper high into the far corner of the net for the first score.

At that point Guthienz moved back to sweeper with Erin Dowd and CRMS moved into a possession game with five defenders. The game was played in between the 18s for the rest of the half. Both teams had opportunities to score but the defense and keepers for both teams were dominant. Cassie Butler stopped several high-quality shots and controlled the box for Oceanside. Julia Holt the CRMS keeper was also very active and went all through the box racing Oceanside forwards to through balls.

The most excitement of the half came when Lara Cazemajou, the speedy right midfielder for CRMS,  made several long runs down the sideline and took hard shots on goal, but Butler made excellent stops on all attempts.

In the second half Messer sent a low hard shot at the keeper, butler deflected the ball with a great effort, and Abby Chamberlin kicked the ball into the left corner for the net for the second goal.

Both teams continued playing primarily at midfield with Oceanside gradually applying more pressure and keeping the ball on the CRMS end. There were several direct kicks from 20 to 30 yards but  the new keeper in the net for CRMS, Emma “V” Vannorsdall, displayed great hands and caught all shots without a bobble. “V” also had to track down loose balls in the outer edges of the box and made several diving grabs in a spectacular performance as keeper.

With 6:39 to go Oceanside earned a penalty kick, but the shot was sent high. After that CRMS defenders played for control and managed the clock trying to keep Oceanside players on the edges of the field. The game ended with CRMS emerging from the fourth contest between the two teams with a 2-0 victory.

Rachelle Thompson, the stopper for Oceanside played an outstanding game. She was a dominant force on the defense controlling the ball and sending it up to the forwards with booming kicks throughout the game.

The defensive players for CRMS, Erin Dowd, Izzy Gutheinz, Emma Brownawell, and  Ellie Spizuoco managed to control the exceptionally fast and great-passing Oceanside forwards and midfielders denying breaks into the goal and forcing long shots.

Cassie Butler faced 11 shots and made 7 saves for Oceanside.

The CRMS keepers Julia Holt and “V” faced 15 shots and made 12 saves.


CRMS will play Great Salt Bay girls at Point Lookout Saturday at 2:00pm for the Busline League Championship.

We thank Coach Alex for this summary of yesterday's game between Oceanside West and Camden-Rockport Middle School.