Hill scores 50th career goal, shutout NEB 9-0 on Senior Night

By: Ed Weaver  /  October 23, 2015

The Wellsboro Varsity Boys Soccer team made history during Senior Night with a 9-0 victory over Northeast Bradford on Thursday, October 22.

The win gave the Hornets their best ever regular season record in the program's history with 15 wins. Also, junior Josiah Hill scored four first-half goals for his 35th on the season and 50th of his career. Only Darby Alafoginis (56) has more for a career.

"It was a total team effort and hopefully this will be a spring board into districts," said head coach John Shaffer. "The boys played very well tonight to earn their 15th win of the year, that is a program record for regular season wins. Also, Josiah scored his 50th goal of his career tonight, which is very impressive for a junior."

Hill's first of four goals came at 35:12 on an assist from senior Tucker Worthington to make it 1-0. Worthington then scored five minutes later on a header from an assist from senior Nick Webster. Wellsboro took a 3-0 lead with 19:20 remaining in the first half as Webster assisted senior Dawson Prough. Hill added goals two and three at 13:58 and 7:29 to make it 5-0 before sophomore Tanner Runyan converted a Hill assist to make it 6-0.

Hill's historical goal came with 1:35 left in the half off an assist from sophomore Gabe Leach to make it 7-0 Hornets at halftime. Wellsboro added two more goals in the second half, as Runyan and freshman Brett Rudy each scored goals that went off NEB defenders and into their goal.

Wellsboro outshot NEB 27-5 and had a 3-0 advantage in corner kicks. Junior Casey Hoover made 5 saves on the night to earn his 10th shutout of the year.

The Hornets also won the JV game 5-1 on the night to finish the year at 9-0-2. Junior Noah Colton, sophomore Noah Fitch, Rudy, freshman Cameron Tennis, and freshman Holden Kennedy all had goals on the night.

The team ends the regular season 15-2-1 and will wait for their seeding for District IV playoffs next week.