The Caldwell County Tigers came out at the boys’ regional soccer tournament in Madisonville Saturday morning and gave the Henderson County Colonels all they wanted in the early going. But ultimately, the continuous Colonel pressure and the lack of scoring opportunities for the Tigers took their toll as Henderson County pulled away in the second half and advanced to Monday night’s regional semifinals with a 5-0 win over Caldwell County at Donley Field at Madisonville-North Hopkins.
Thanks to solid backline defense and goalie play from Grayson Harris, the Tigers kept the Henderson County offense in check for a large portion of the first half. For the first ten minutes, it was Harris’ play in the net and efforts from Evan Ramage and Kaiden Sherrill that kept things at 0-0, despite playing the whole time essentially in their defensive end of the field.
Alex Noffsinger, Trey Herron, and Landon Lanham gave Caldwell County big minutes over the next ten as the Tigers continued to turn back Henderson County’s offense while not being able to get off a shot of their own.
Henderson finally broke through at 26:20 when Benjamin Grove took a pass at the front left corner of the goal area, spun right to the middle of the field, and then sent a left-footed shot that just found the very front left side of the net to give the Colonels a 1-0 lead…