Brittany Deeley scored three minutes into the second half to lift the undefeated Dryden girls' soccer team to a 1-0 victory over Newark Valley in the quarterfinals of the Section 4 Class B tournament at Dryden.
Abigail Barr assisted on the game's lone goal and Sarah Westcott made one save to earn the shutout for 16th-ranked Dryden (16-0), which had a narrow 4-3 edge in shots and took all seven of the game's corner kicks.
"We had a lot of opportunities to get into danger, but their keeper (Molly Graves) is great and did a nice job of intercepting passes and disrupting anything we put into the box," Dryden coach Janine Bennett said.
Graves also was credited with just a single save, but Bennett said both goalies were more of a factor in the game than the stats might indicate.
"The shots were minimal," she said, "but both keepers were intercepting crosses and getting their hands on the ball."
Bennett said she moved her daughter, junior center back and leading scorer Taylor Bennett, up to attack for the last five minutes of the first half. The all-state forward from last year, who leads Dryden with 24 goals, had a couple of opportunities but was mainly distributing the ball on her runs forward, the coach said.
Dryden advances to Saturday's Class B semifinals, where it will travel to Binghamton to face top-seeded Seton Catholic Central (12-1) at 3:30 p.m. The Saints had a first-round bye.
Dryden 1, Newark Valley 0
| Newark Valley | 0 | 0 | — | 0 |
| Dryden | 0 | 1 | — | 1 |
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