If the first game was any indication, Paul Revere Middle School can expect good things from its girls soccer program this season. The Roughriders shut out Santa Fe Springs St. Paul, 6-0, in their season opener last Wednesday at the Revere field. Third-year coach Jeanne Goldsmith believes this could be Revere’s best team yet–even better than last year’s undefeated squad. “This sport is growing and growing,” said Goldsmith, whose older daughter Laura is a freshman on the Palisades High team and whose younger daughter Zoe plays AYSO. “We had over 40 girls try out this season and we kept 23 on the team, which is more than we planned on having. About 15 of the girls play club, so we have a strong group.” With fellow coach Nancy Babcock, Goldsmith has worked with the school’s after-school program coordinators Paul and Stacey Foxson and AYSO region 69 Commissioner Debbie Held, who has generously supplied referees for Revere’s games. The Roughriders’ roster consists of eighth-graders Yazmin Tabatabai, Veronica Bouza, Molly Meek and Emma Carter, seventh-graders Kathryn Gaskin (who scored three goals against St. Paul), Samantha Elander (one goal against St. Paul), Kiki Bailey, Brittany Aliado, Hannah Longaker, Katy Takajian, Sheyla Garcia, Judy Borah, Ariel Wexler and Hannah Gross and sixth-graders Melisa Tallis (two goals against St. Paul), Eve Babcock, Zoe Aliado, Ava Avuchi, Deborah Abber, Clara Clymer, Katie Van Daalen Letters, Morgan Ekstrom and Brittany Butler. Revere hosts Archer Academy on Monday and St. Matthew’s on Tuesday. Both games kick off at 3:45 p.m. Revere and St. Matthew’s tied 1-1 in the rain last season.
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