‘It’s pretty brutal’

There’s the Spaghetti Bowl for football, but for girls soccer, the matchup could be called the Bowl You Over.

That’s the way things played out last Thursday during the 4A Kingco game between Bothell High and Inglemoor High at Pop Keeney Field. Amongst the aggressive play that left nearly every girl hitting the turf at one point, a couple of goals hit the net during the 1-1 overtime draw.

“It’s pretty brutal,” Bothell’s Devon Eckberg said after the match.

Added Inglemoor’s Arielle Dorman, who scored the tying goal in the 77th minute: “I’ve got a pretty sweet raspberry (on my right thigh).”

Bothell scored first in the third minute on an Inglemoor own goal, and the Cougars’ defense — led by Erica Conrad and goalkeeper Kaitlin Abrahamson — staved off a slew of Viking attacks until Dorman’s late tally.

With the minutes dwindling away, Dorman’s corner kick from the left side somehow found its way into the net as it bounded past the crowd of white and black jerseys.

“I’m not the one who usually takes corner kicks — it was my first time,” Dorman said with eyes wide open in amazement. “It was a complete accident, I thought it was going out of bounds.

“I was shocked — yay, me.”

Dorman added that the Vikings — led by Lacey London and Angela Fatigati up front — were bent on notching the equalizer after becoming frustrated by allowing the own goal.

They certainly supplied some drama to the match by scoring a late one.

On the other side, Bothell’s Ashley Butcher was smiling but a bit let down by her team’s performance near the end.

“We really, really wanted to win,” she said. “What we don’t do well in games, we work on in practice.”

Added Eckberg: “I know we can play better than this. We have a lot of potential. There are little pieces, we need to bring it all together.”

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