{"id":2443337,"date":"2019-04-23T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/preps-april-23-aspen-girls-soccer-wins-again-as-francis-closes-in-on-scoring-mark\/"},"modified":"2019-04-23T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T04:56:00","slug":"preps-april-23-aspen-girls-soccer-wins-again-as-francis-closes-in-on-scoring-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/preps-april-23-aspen-girls-soccer-wins-again-as-francis-closes-in-on-scoring-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Preps April 23: Aspen girls soccer wins again as Francis closes in on scoring mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.2661290322581\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-304605-215\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/preps-atd-042419-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/preps-atd-042419-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Michele Gray\/courtesy | The Aspen High School girls soccer team played at Grand Valley on Tuesday, winning 10-0.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/preps-atd-042419-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Aspen High School girls soccer team played at Grand Valley on Tuesday, winning 10-0.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>The Aspen High School girls soccer team played at Grand Valley on Tuesday, winning 10-0.<\/strong><br \/>Michele Gray\/courtesy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/preps-atd-042419-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/preps-atd-042419-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Michele Gray\/courtesy | The Aspen High School girls soccer team played at Grand Valley on Tuesday, winning 10-0.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/preps-atd-042419-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Aspen High School girls soccer team played at Grand Valley on Tuesday, winning 10-0.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>The Aspen High School girls soccer team played at Grand Valley on Tuesday, winning 10-0.<\/strong><br \/>Michele Gray\/courtesy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/preps-april-23-aspen-girls-soccer-wins-again-as-francis-closes-in-on-scoring-mark\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/preps-april-23-aspen-girls-soccer-wins-again-as-francis-closes-in-on-scoring-mark\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Call them the \u201cGoal-den Girls\u201d \u2014 an assist to assistant coach Michele Gray for that one \u2014 after the No. 4-ranked Aspen High School girls soccer team continued its offensive dominance with a 10-0 win at Grand Valley on Tuesday in Parachute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The game ended with about 20 minutes to play; it\u2019s the third time in four games the Skiers have scored 10 goals. They now have 37 goals over the past four games, which include a 10-0 win at Moffat, a 7-0 win over Coal Ridge and a 10-1 win over Faith Christian, which was a playoff rematch from last spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Scoring five of Aspen\u2019s 10 goals against Grand Valley was sophomore Kelley Francis. It was the second time in her short AHS career that Francis scored five goals in a game \u2014 she also scored five in a 12-2 win over Grand Valley as a freshman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Francis now has 31 goals on the season, putting her one short of tying the school\u2019s single-season mark of 32, which she set last spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Also scoring for Aspen against the Cardinals were Margo McHugh, Grace Romero, Clara Maxwell, Eva McDonough and Evelyn Leibinger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It was Aspen\u2019s seventh shutout of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Grand Valley fell to 6-4 overall and 0-3 in league play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen improved to 10-2 and 6-0, clinching at least a share of the 3A Western Slope League title with its eighth straight win. The Skiers have only one league game remaining, with Roaring Fork (6-4, 3-1) coming to Aspen on Thursday. AHS beat Roaring Fork in a non-league game on March 19, 3-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Before playing in Aspen, Roaring Fork first will travel to Basalt Wednesday afternoon for a non-league game. The Longhorns played at Delta on Tuesday, losing 4-3 after holding a one-goal lead at halftime. The loss dropped BHS to 1-8-1 overall and 1-4 in WSL play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Basalt\u2019s lone win came 3-0 over Roaring Fork on April 6 in a league game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Aspen, Basalt baseball fall on the road<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Aspen High School baseball team fell to 0-13 overall with a 14-1 loss at Gunnison on Tuesday. The Skiers gave up 10 runs in the first inning. They host Delta on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Basalt High School baseball team didn\u2019t fare much better, losing 14-4 at Delta on Tuesday. Scoreless after an inning, the Panthers broke it open with 10 runs in the second. BHS fell to 2-9 overall and will host Coal Ridge on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:acolbert@aspentimes.com\">acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/preps-april-23-aspen-girls-soccer-wins-again-as-francis-closes-in-on-scoring-mark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aspen High School girls soccer team played at Grand Valley on Tuesday, winning 10-0.Michele Gray\/courtesy The Aspen High School girls soccer team played at Grand Valley on Tuesday, winning 10-0.Michele Gray\/courtesy Show CaptionsHide Captions Call them the \u201cGoal-den Girls\u201d \u2014 an assist to assistant coach Michele Gray for that one \u2014 after the No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 06:27:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}