Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 9, 1995 TAG: 9506090084
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BOB TEITLEBAUM STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Sharon McCulley, the girls' soccer coach at Patrick Henry, knew early what to expect from Carrie Moore.
``I saw her in rec soccer when she was young and I knew she'd be good,'' Moore said. ``She's definitely an impact player and has been since she was a freshman.''
Moore, a junior, is the 1995 Timesland Player of the Year and has been All-Timesland in girls soccer in each of her three years with the Patriots.
Moore's statistics (six goals, three assists) were unspectacular, but her superior play-making skills set her above the rest on the All-Timesland team.
``Carrie's completely unselfish,'' said McCulley, who puts Moore on par with Liz Wedemeyer, a former PH standout now playing at North Carolina-Greensboro. ``She has great knowledge of the field and knows where she should be and where everyone else should be. She'll carry the ball from her defensive position and pass it off to a player even though she could take the shot.''
``I like to play sweeper and try to help everyone out,'' Moore said. ``I think my teammates like it, too.''
Next season Moore will get a chance to equal Martinsville's Beth Kirby, who is the first girls' soccer player to make All-Timesland four times. Kirby, a complete player with a hard shot and strong dribbling and passing skills, had 17 goals and six assists.
This season's team also includes Cave Spring twins Alison and Aimee Beightol. Alison once again was a strong defender and Aimee returns to the team after not playing girls' soccer in 1995. Aimee and Tiffanie Jackson, another All-Timesland selection, combined to score 43 goals.
Staunton River fullback Danielle Morrison is the first girl to make the All-Timesland while playing for a boys' team.
Cave Spring's Jackson, North Cross' Emily Cook and Patrick Henry's Ayisha Whitenack are repeat first-team selections. Salem's Angie Divers (goalkeeper) and Amy Moore, North Cross' Mary Jennings and Christiansburg's Stewart Milton also are on the first team picked by coaches of the nine Timesland schools that compete in girls' soccer.
The emergence of younger players and the increase in teams playing girls' soccer put 1994 first-teamers Emily Bryant of Patrick Henry and Heather Krause of Cave Spring on the second team.
Cave Spring's Peter Lustig, whose team dominated local play, is Timesland's coach of the year in his second season.
Moore has been in the U.S. Olympic development program and this week plays with the state team in a New Jersey tournament.
``I think I'm a lot better since I've been in the Olympic development program. My goal is to get a college scholarship,'' Moore said.
One goal Moore will be remembered for came against C.D. Hylton, one of the state's toughest Group AAA teams.
``They were stunned when she scored. Not many people score on them,'' McCulley said.
But it was the Patriots' only goal in an 11-1 loss.
``I was pretty upset at the result of the game,'' Moore said. ``I know a lot of the players up there. Even when they say their teams are good, they're much better than we are because they play all year around and the competition is so much better up there.''
Lustig, who played high school soccer in Northern Virginia, agrees.
``I'm committed to building the program at Cave Spring to compete with teams in Northern Virginia,'' he said. ``We're starting to make inroads.''
The Knights went 13-1, losing 5-2 to Gar-Field in a first-round Northwest Region contest.
by CNB