Lady Roadrunners Blank North Lake for Fourth Straight Win, Dewbre Nets Another Hat Trick

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Angelina College’s Savannah Keziah (16) takes possession away from a North Lake College player during Tuesday’s match. The Lady Roadrunners ran their winning streak to four straight with a 6-0 win at Jase Magers Field in Lufkin. (Gary Stallard/AC Press photo)

Angelina College’s Lady Roadrunners made it four straight wins with Tuesday’s 6-0 blanking of North Lake College, and for the second straight week, Lady ‘Runner Jade Dewbre had a hat trick by the end of the first half.

Dewbre entered Tuesday’s match tied for 10th in the nation in goals scored in the NJCAA’s Division I level, but her performance against the Blazers vaulted her into the top five. Dewbre’s 13 goals in 2018 have already established program marks for all-time and single-season scoring.

Not even three minutes into the match, AC’s frontal assault netted the first goal. Olivia Urrutia took a pass from Stephany Lopez and blasted a shot from far outside the box. The ball caromed off the crossbar, but Jerissa Grimes cleaned it up for a 1-0 Lady ‘Runner lead.

Dewbre notched her first goal in the eighth minute of the first half, kicking a ball hard and low from the right side and celebrating as the ball skipped off the wet turf and beneath the Blazer keeper’s efforts for a 2-0 lead.

Dewbre added her second score in the 31st minute and completed her hat trick two minutes later after taking a corner kick from Urrutia and knocking home a header.

Grimes added her second goal in the second half, going across her body in an awkward angle and drilling it to the back of the net to boost AC’s lead to 5-0. Dewbre had a hand in the final goal, drawing the keeper out of the net on a breakaway. The keeper deflected the ball, only to see AC’s Eva Phillips step up to the net and finish off the 6-0 win.

AC keepers Aubrey Pettett and Skylar Roberson each made saves to preserve the shutout, but they had few chances thanks to the back line play of Italli Suarez, Savannah Keziah, Makayla Lewis, Bailey Bowers and Bety Hernandez, who rarely allowed the Blazers anywhere within shooting range.

The Lady Roadrunners (6-2, 3-1) next play at Navarro College on Tuesday. Game time is 4 p.m. in Corsicana.

The e-mail address for AC’s Sports Information Director is gstallard@angelina.edu.

Gary Stallard
Sports Information Director Gary Stallard, who also serves as a Liberal Arts Instructor, begins his eleventh season with Angelina College. Following a career as a U.S. Marine, Stallard completed his bachelor’s degree at Stephen F. Austin University, where he majored in English and Journalism. For more than 16 years, he has worked as a sports writer/columnist/photographer for the Lufkin Daily News; he continues to contribute free-lance articles on occasion. Stallard has won several awards for writing, including the Golden Hoops Award for basketball writing in 2003, Regional Sports Writer of the Year in 2004, and the Texas Press Association’s first-place award for column writing in 2007 and in 2014. He has also done basketball, football and baseball radio and live streaming play-by- play and color commentary for an ESPN affiliate. Currently Stallard serves as play-by-play broadcaster for AC basketball, baseball and softball games. Prior to arriving at Angelina College, Stallard taught English at Lufkin High School for four years. He currently teaches Developmental Writing classes at AC. He and his wife Susan live in Lufkin.

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