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Ignacio freshman Angelina Guzman-Griego (7) battles Bayfield senior Anna Vasgird (4) for control of the ball during the Lady Bobcats' road match Thursday evening, May 2, inside BHS' Wolverine Country Stadium.
Ignacio goalkeeper Bella Lorenzini, a sophomore, secures a save while pressured by Bayfield senior Lily Lewin (2) during the Lady Bobcats' road match Thursday evening, May 2, inside BHS' Wolverine Country Stadium.
Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
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Lady Bobcats sign off in Bayfield

Friday - May 17, 2024 by Joel Priest | Special to the Drum

Again, reduced by injury and absence to competing 8-v-8 on the soccer pitch, the Ignacio Lady Bobcats’ difficult 2024 campaign ended early Thursday evening, May 2, with a 9-0 loss at 3A Bayfield. 

Set up by a corner kick taken by junior Sydney Rey, which deflected off IHS senior Jillian Middlebrook at goalkeeper Bella Lorenzini’s back post, the hosting Lady Wolverines opened the scoring in the second minute as senior Genesis Barrera gained possession and, with a pass paralleling the goal line, found senior Preslie Wagner at the opposite post for a 1-0 lead. 

Wagner then rang a shot off an Ignacio defender in the fourth minute, and Barrera converted a seventh-minute Rey corner into BHS’ third goal. Assisted by senior Michelle Kirk, Rey increased BHS’ lead to 4-0 in the tenth minute, then scored again in the 20th. Following a welcome mid-half water break, Bayfield senior Brylee Sampley scored (assisted by senior Lily Lewin) in the 24th minute and the Lady Wolverines coasted into halftime ahead 6-0. 

The Lady ’Cats finally logged a shot attempt in the 55th minute, but BHS senior goalie McKenna Noonan scooped up freshman Maliyah Martinez’s try low and to her left. Literally moments after the second pre-planned pause for refreshments, junior Kambrie Byrd grew Bayfield’s lead to 7-0 in the 60th, and Rey followed – shooting somewhat reluctantly from 17 yards out after finding no teammates nearby to whom she could pass – in the 71st. She then netted the home team’s last goal in the 78th, assisted by Barrera (who totaled four helpers in the match; Lewin was credited with two), as BHS improved at the time to 6-5-3 overall. 

Ignacio, meanwhile, elected to forfeit a scheduled 5/4 season finale in Gunnison against Crested Butte and begin the long wait for 2025 standing 1-14-0 overall, 1-6-0 in the unbalanced 2A Intermountain-South. Before playing an unplanned third match against Telluride – but with no bearing on the league standings – as a replacement for IHS (Del Norte had forfeited to THS the same day), CBCS improved at the time to 12-2-1 overall, and a league-best 7-0-0. 

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