FALMOUTH — Falmouth showed its season-long depth, getting goals from four players in breezing to a 4-0 victory over Lisbon in a Western Maine Class B girls’ soccer quarterfinal Tuesday night.

Fourth-ranked Falmouth (9-5-1) will play top-ranked Yarmouth (14-0-1) Saturday at Yarmouth. The Yachtsmen and Clippers played a scoreless tie in their second meeting of the regular season at Falmouth.

“We’re big rivals,” said Falmouth’s Jess DiPhilippo. “It should be a good game, but a tough one.”

DiPhilippo had two assists and controlled much of the action with her ball handling and strong crosses.

“DiPhilippo is a tough player on both sides of the field,” said Lisbon Coach Jake Gentile. “We took our strongest player and tried to contain her. Falmouth is a great team. They have a lot of skilled players.

“Falmouth plays in the Western Maine Class B Conference, which is a superior league than our league, the Mountain Valley Conference. We play a lot of Class C teams and don’t face the caliber of teams that they face. They had more speed than we did.”

Falmouth got goals from Rachel Bauer, Abbey Cavalero, Alex Bernier and Jessie L’Heureux. DiPhilippo assisted on the first two goals, both on crossing passes.

After the opening few minutes when both teams played tentatively, Falmouth started to control the action and pepper the Lisbon net with shots.

Bauer scored from the left post with 23:22 remaining in the first half after taking DiPhilippo’s pass from the right side.

Cavalero headed in a goal on a perfectly timed crossing pass from DiPhilippo six minutes later.

Bernier scored with 9:50 left in the half on an assist from Jamie Sabo. Lisbon goalie Kyrstin Ramich stopped Bernier’s initial shot, but Bernier controlled the rebound and knocked it past Ramich.

L’Heureux scored in the second half. Falmouth had several other shots that just missed the net.

One shot hit the crossbar and deflected out from the goal mouth before fifth-seeded Lisbon (10-2-3) covered.

“I think we really played well,” said DiPhilippo. “We looked to play to the outside and hit crosses to the middle for our weak-side players.

“I would rather set my teammates up than score myself.”

Falmouth has been able to spread its offense around this season.

“We’ve been like that all season,” said Falmouth Coach Jon Meek. “We’ve had various combinations. I think we’ve spread it around pretty good.

“Lisbon is a physical team and we had to be patient. I think we played a good thinking and physical game.

“Lisbon came in and worked hard. They weren’t an easy team to break down. I don’t know how many games they’ve played on (artificial) turf,” he said.

Looking ahead to the semifinal against Yarmouth, Meek said: “It’s always a great game when Falmouth and Yarmouth play.”

 

Staff Writer Tom Chard can be contacted at 791-6419 or at: tchard@pressherald.com

 

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