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Golden Eagles blank unbeaten Mitchell for key girls’ soccer victory

Lauren Joosten, far left, celebrates scoring a goal with teammates Taylor Lyke, Deshani Peters and Kailyn Poppen in the first half of Tuesday’s match against Mitchell at the Brownell Activities Complex. Photo by John Davis taken 9/26/2023
Aberdeen Central did something no other girls' soccer team had done this season on Tuesday afternoon. The Golden Eagles shutout previously unbeaten Mitchell 1-0 in an Eastern South Dakota Conference matchup at Brownell Activities Complex. Central was able to keep a team that had scored at least five goals on six different occasions off the scoreboard thanks to its stellar defense. "The biggest thing is we kept enough pressure on them that they didn’t get a lot of good opportunities," said Central coach Merle Aske. "We knew they had a really good attacker, they got a really good player out there (Mia Mullenmeister), and she’s going to put the ball on frame a lot of times. Ciara (Frank) was up to the task. She made several saves on those." Central got the only goal of the game on a bizarre scenario, in which the ball never even hit the back of the net in the third minute of action. Senior Lauren Joosten was just trying to cross the ball when it deflected off the Mitchell

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