Team Chicago Academy-Bahia continued their U13 MRL Premier I Division league play this past weekend.

The competition started off on Friday night with Bahia facing the Eclipse Pre-ECNL team at their facility. Bahia trailed 1-0 after giving up a goal off of a corner against the run of play. However, Bahia continued to fight and the efforts resulted in a great goal a few minutes later. The goal was a clinical finish by Zaira Solis who slotted the ball first time with her left foot past the keeper from about eighteen yards out. The play started with Katie Murphy playing a nice through ball for Molly Grant who beat the defender to play a great ball into Zaira’s path.

The second half produced a set-piece goal for each team with Sophia Majher getting credit for Bahia’s goal off a corner. The girls played well enough to deserve the win, and unfortunately gave up two goals off set-pieces to settle the game at 2-2.

In Sunday’s game against JB Marine (MO) Bahia opened the game with domination in all phases of the game, but unfortunately went down 1-0 off another restart. The girls continued to probe and created several scoring chances and finally got one back when a corner taken by Sophia Majher was deflected out to Jeff (Jennifer) Pochyly. Jeff took the ball first time out of the air to place the ball in the back of the net. Bahia came close on several occasions in the last ten minutes, but just couldn’t find the back of the net. The game ended with a draw at 1-1.

Special recognition to the backline for not allowing a goal in the run-of-play all weekend.