2010 FALL SEASON
Championship season ends
with 7-4 win for Thunder
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DENVILLE - Maddison Perna, Danielle Milles and Isabella Ley each scored two goals when the Denville HUB Soccer Thunder U10 girls travel team defeated Kinnelon, 7-4, to close out their Flight 2 championship season in a Morris County Youth Soccer Association game played at Boonton Ave. Field in Kinnelon on Sunday, Nov. 21.
The Thunder finished the season with nine wins and one loss in 10 games for 27 points to finished ahead of second-place Chatham, which had seven wins, one tie and two losses in nine games for 22 points.
Perna, who added three assists on corner kicks and finished the season as the Thunders leading scorer with 30 goals and 19 assists, opened the game's scoring with Mills then adding her two goals to give the Thunder a 3-1 lead at the half.
After Kinnelon scored to cut Denville's lead to a goal at 3-2, Perna and Isabella Patterne scored and Ley followed with her two goals to give the Thunder a commanding 7-2 lead. Casey Morren and Maddy College added assists for the Thunder.
Kinnelon's final two goals came in a too-little, too-late rally to close out the game.
Tori Izsal played the first half and half of the second half and had 11 saves before giving way to Perna, who stopped two more Kinnelon shots for the rest of the way.
With the Thunder missing two regular players and with starting sweeper Emily Piser on the sidelines but too ill to play, Morren, Mills and Izsa stepped up their play on the defensive end.
Notes: Mills was the second leading scorer for the Thunder with 11 goals and 9 assists for 20 points; Bella Patterne finished 9-4-13; Ally DosSantos was 5-4-9; Anna Gebur was 2-6-8; Morren was 3-3-6; Piser was 3-1-4; Ariana Cicenia finished with three goals; Ley's two goals against Kinnelon were her first goals of the season and she finished 2-1-3; Maddy Colledge was 1-2-3; Kira Alverson had two goals; and Gabby Lara finished with two assists.
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Perna, Mills, Patterne lead Thunder to 4-1 win
DENVILLE - Maddison Perna scored two goals and added an assist and Danielle Mills and Isabella Patterne each scored one when the Denville HUB Thunder U10 girls travel soccer team beat the Montville Power, 4-1, in a Morris County Youth Soccer Association game played at Todd Johnson Field here on Sunday, Nov. 14.
The victory was the eighth of the season for the Thunder against a single loss.
Mills opened the scoring when her cross deflected off a Montville defender into the goal.
Perna scored her first goal off a throw-in by Gabby Lara and, after Montville scored its only goal of the game, Perna scored again when she took controlled a punt by the Power goalie and took it back in for the score.
Patterne scored the only goal of the second half when she scored off a cross from Perna.
Tori Izsa was in goal for the Thunder the entire game and finished with six saves.
The Thunder coaches were especially pleased with the team's communication and passing, two things they have been focusing on during their training sessions.
On Saturday, Nov. 13, the team had a scrimmage under game conditions with the Parsippany Dynamite, a Flight 3 team that also plays in the highly competitive Mid-Atlantic Premier Soccer (MAPS) League, and came away with a 2-1 victory in a game played at Central Middle School in Parsippany.
Perna scored both goals and got assists from Mills and Emily Piser. Arianna Cicenia and Mills split the goaltending duties and each finished with two saves.
Isabella Patterne and Anna Gebur, both of whom played with Dynamite before joining the Thunder, each had solid outings - Patterne on offense and Gebur on defense.
The Thunder will conclude their fall regular-season MCYSA schedule on Sunday, Nov. 21, when they play the Kinnelon Bears at the Boonton Avenue Fields at noon.
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Perna leads Thunder to two weekend wins
DENVILLE - Madison Perna had four goals and three assists when the Denville HUB Soccer Thunder U9 girls travel team defeated Verona and West Milford in a pair of Morris County Youth Soccer Association games played at Todd Johnson Field here on the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 30-31.
Perna scored twice and had three assists in Sunday's 5-1 victory over Verona in spite of drawing double- and sometimes triple-coverage from Verona defenders. Perna scored Denville's first goal on a free kick outside the 18-yard line and added her second goal on a second-half penalty kick when Verona got called for a hand ball in the box.
Isabella Patterne, Daniell Mills and Kira Alverson each added a goal for the Thunder. Patterne scored with an assist from Perna after Perna had taken a throw-in from Mills; Mills gave the Thunder a 3-0 lead at the half on another assist from Perna; and Alverson scored the last goal of the game after taking a cross from Perna.
Ariana Cicenia was the Thunder keeper the entire game and finished with four saves. She is replacing Tori Izsa, who could't play goal because of a shoulder injury. The injury didn't prevent her from taking a turn at midfield, however, where the Thunder coaches said she performed well.
In the Thunder's 3-1 victory over West Milford on Saturday, Perna scored twice and Mills added one goal to lead Denville.
Cicenia, playing her first full game in goal in place of the injured Izsa, recorded two saves and got solid support from a Thunder defense led by Emily Piser.
Perna gave the Thunder a 1-0 lead on a penalty kick and West Milford answered with its only goal for a 1-1 score at the half.
Perna got her second goal when she intercepted a West Milford throw-in and scored and Mills added an insurance goal when she intercepted a West Milford goal kick and brought it back and put it into the back of the net.
The Thunder have a bye week coming up and won't return to MCYSA action until Sunday, Nov. 14, when they will play Montville in a 12:30 p.m. game at Todd Johnson Field.
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Thunder loses first MCYSA game
DENVILLE - The Chatham Wildcats scored four unanswered second-half goals to hand the Denville HUB Soccer Thunder U10 girls travel team a 4-1 loss - its first loss in the Morris County Youth Soccer Association this season - in a game played at Chatham on Sunday, Oct. 24.
The teams each have 18 points to share the lead in the Flight 2 division of their age group. Denville has a 6-1 record and has a game in hand over Chatham, which is now 6-2.
Isabella Petterne scored the Thunder goal on a pass from Maddison Perna to give Denville a 1-0 halftime lead before Chatham erupted for its four goals in the second half.
Thunder keeper Tori Izsa injured her shoulder during the game but was able continue and finished with 13 saves against the offensive-minded Wildcats. Izsa was named Game MVP by the Thunder coaches for her gutsy performance in goal.
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Thunder splits in Mt. Olive Halloween Tournament
DENVILLE - The Denville HUB Soccer Thunder U9 girls travel team split its two games in the Mount Olive Halloween Tournament held on Saturday, Oct. 23, at Turkey Brook Field in Mount Olive.
The Thunder scored first but lost a 2-1 decision to the Highland Strikers in the first game before coming back in the second game to beat the Sparta Sparklers, 3-0. The Thunder plays in Flight 2 in the U9 division of the Morris County Youth Soccer Association while the Strikers and Sparklers are both in Flight 1 of the same division.
Maddison Perna scored the Thunder's goal against Highland, intercepting a free kick and turning it around and putting it back into the Strikers' net.
Highland tied the score on a penalty kick and then scored the game-winner on a shot off a deflected goal kick with both goals coming in the second half.
Tori Izsa played the entire game in goal for the Thunder and finished with six saves.
A post-game highlight of the tournament is when each coaching staff chooses a team MVP from the opposing team. The Strikers coaches tabbed Daniell Mills as the MVP for the Thunder because of her outstanding defensive play throughout the game.
In the second game, Ally Dosantos, Perna and Mills scored the goals; Mills and Piser had assists; and Izsa and Arianna Cicenia split the goaltening duties with Izsa facing no shots in the first half and Cicenia stopping all four shots she faced in the second half to preserve the shutout.
Dosantos scored on a pass from Perna after Perna had taken a throw-in from Mills and Perna scored on a penalty kick to give the Thunder a 2-0 lead at the half. Mills scored her second-half goal unassisted to end the scoring.
The Sparta coaching staff voted Cicenia as the Thunder MVP for the game.
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Perna's 2 goals, 2 assists help beat Power, 4-1
DENVILLE - Madison Perna scored two goals and assisted on two others when the Denville HUB Soccer Thunder U10 girls travel team defeated the Montville Power, 4-1, in a Morris County Youth Soccer Association game played at Community Park in Montville on Sunday, Oct. 17.
Danielle Mills and Ally DosSantos scored first-half goals on asissts by Perna as the Thunder took a 2-1 lead into the break.
In the second half, Perna scored her first goal when her crossing pass rebounded off a Montville defender and into the net and her second goal came on a penalty kick after Montville was called for a hand ball in the box.
Tori Izsa played the entrie game in goal for the Thunder and finished with five saves, getting a lot of help from a defense led by Gaby Lara.
The Thunder travels to Chatham on Sunday, Oct. 24, for a 4 p.m. game against the Chatham Wildcats.
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Thunder 4-0 in Parsippany Pride tourney
DENVILLE - The Denville HUB Soccer Thunder U10 girls travel team accomplished much more than winning the four games in which they played in the Parsippany Pride Columbus Day Tournament in Parsippany on the weekend of Friday-Sunday, Oct. 8-10.
Ten players scored at least one goal for the Thunder as the bench players got more minutes of playing time than the regulars and the team used four goalies during the course of the three-day weekend.
And four of those 10 scored their first goals of the season with one scoring the first goal of her career.
Emily Piser, who usually plays strictly defense, scored her first goal of the season plus two others; fullback Casey Morren also had three goals, including the first one of her career; and Maddie Colledge and Kira Alverson also notched their first goals of the season.
The Thunder opened play with a 9-1 victory over the Livingston Lady Lancers on Friday, Oct. 8, at Smith Field; beat the New Generation Pearls, 6-1, in a game the next day at Knollwood School; stopped the Torpedoes Black, 5-0, at Parsippany Park in the first game of a Sunday doubleheader; and completed their four-game sweep with a 4-1 victory over the Lower Merion Tornadoes at Golds Gym Field.
The Thunder outscored their four opponents, 23-3, with goalies Tori Izsa (nine combined saves in the time she played over the three days); Maddison Perna (six saves), Ariana Cicenia (five saves), and Danielle Mills (two saves) playing solid games in the nets.
Perna was the leader on offense for the Thunder over the weekend as she scored a team-high eight goals and added a team-high four assists.
Isabella Patterne had three goals and two assists; Morren finished with three goals and an assist; Piser had three goals; Ally DosSantos had two goals and two assists; Mills had a goal and three assists; Anna Gebur had a goal and two assists; and Ariana Cicenia, Colledge and Alverson each finished with one goal.
The Thunder will be in another tournament situation on Saturday, Oct. 23, where they will be playing Highland Strikers and the Sparta Sparklers in a mini-tourney at Turkey Brook Park in Mount Olive.
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Thunder 3-goal second half beats Madison, 4-2
DENVILLE - The Denville HUB Soccer Thunder U10 girls travel team came back from a 2-1 deficit to beat Madison, 4-2, in a Morris County Youth Soccer Association game played at Madison Junior High School in Madison on Sunday, Oct. 3.
Maddison Perna scored off a throw-in from Danielle Mills for the first of her two goals to give the Thunder a 1-0 lead, but Madison scored twice - the second goal on a penalty kick - to take a 2-1 lead into the halftime break.
The Thunder won the game with three unanswered goals in the second half.
Perna and Mills teamed up again with Perna scoring off a Mills corner kick to tie the score at 2-2. Mills scored an unassisted goal for what proved to be the game-winner and Ariana Cicenia added an insurance goal with Ally DosSantos and Perna getting the assists to close out the scoring.
Thunder goalkeeper Tori Izsa finished the game with 12 saves - 10 in the first half. Izsa got plenty of help from a defense led by Maddie Colledge and Perna, who had a solid game on both ends of the field. Perna was given a "save" when a Madison shot was blocked by Izsa toward the left corner of the net where Perna bodied the ball to her feet before carrying it out of the goal area.
The Thunder will be playing in the Parsippany Pride Columbus Weekend Tournament that is being held Friday through Sunday, Oct. 8-9-10, at Parsippany. The Thunder will pick up its MCYSA schedule on Sunday, Oct. 17, when the team travels to Montville for a 2:15 p.m. game.
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Patterne nets 2 goals in 4-0 victory
DENVILLE - Isabella Patterne scored two goals; Ariana Cicenia and Danielle Mills each added one, Maddison Perna had three assists and keeper Tori Izsa stopped all nine shots she saw for the shutout when the Denville HUB Soccer Thunder U10 girls travel team stopped Kinnelon, 4-0, in a Morris County Youth Soccer Association game played at Todd Johnson Field here on Sunday, Sept. 26.
Patterne, who joined the Thunder this season, scored the only goal of the first half on an assist from Perna.
Cicenia made it 2-0 with her goal early in the second half with assists from Ally Dos Santos and Perna and Patterne made it 3-0 with her second goal, a shot from close in after controlling a rebound that came to her after the Kinnelon keeper stopped a shot by Perna.
Mills' unassisted goal later in the second half completed the scoring for the Thunder.
Izsa finished with two saves in the first half and seven in the second half for her shutout victory.
Next for the Thunder is a noon game against the Madison Rockets at Madison Junior High School on Sunday, Oct. 3.
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Perna's four goals top West Morris, 6-2
DENVILLE - Maddison Perna scored four goals to lead the Denville HUB Soccer Thunder U10 girls travel team to a 6-2 victory over West Milford in a Morris County Youth Soccer Association game played at SteamTrain Field in West Milford on Sunday, Sept. 19.
Ally DosSantos scored first for the Thunder, converting a throw-in from Anna Gebur for an early 1-0 lead. Perna followed with her first goal, getting assists from Isabella Patterne and Gebur and then scored again on an assist from Isabella Ley to make it 3-0 at the half.
West Milford scored on a penalty shot to open the scoring in the second half, but Perna got the three-goal lead back with an unassisted goal to complete her hat trick.
West Milford scored again to pull to within two goals, but Perna scored her fourth and final goal of the game on assists from DosSantos and Lara and Geber completed the scoring for the Thunder with an unassisted goal later in the second half.
Tori Izsa and Ariana Cicenia split the goaltending duties for the Thunder with Izsa facing no shots on goal in the first half and Cicenia finishing with three saves in the second half.
The Thunder coaching staff had praise for the aggressive goaltending play of Cicenia, who replaced starting keeper Izsa in the net because the Denville coaches wanted to give Izsa some time in the field.
Cicenia was particularly adept at attacking the ball before a West Morris forward had time to settle the ball and get off a shot. She endeared herself to her coaches and teammates on a play where she went out to face a West Morris forward only to take a hard shot right on the face.
Disoriented a bit from the shot, Cicenia nevertheless scrambled to regain her position only to get beaten by a quick shot in spite of her great effort.
"It was a great and gutsy effort," said head coach Jen Perna after the game. "She took a good hit to the face but still wanted to get back into position to stop another shot."
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Perna, Izsa lead way for Thunder, 2-1
DENVILLE - Maddison Perna scored two first-half goals when the Denville HUB Soccer Thunder U10 girls travel team defeated Chatham, 2-1, as the teams opened play in the fall season of the Morris County Youth Soccer Association game at Todd Johnson Field here on Sunday, Sept. 12.
Anna Gebur and Casey Morren had the assists on Perna's first goal while Isabella Patterne and Danielle Mills assists on the second.
Tori Izsa played the entire game in goal for the Thunder and finished with 11 saves - seven in a scoreless second half when Chatham pressed in an effort to tie the score. She made her best save of the game in the final minute of play when she stopped a shot that the Thunder coaching staff described as "..a spectacular save that was talked about by fans on both sides long after the game."
The coaches also had praise for the Thunder defense led by newcomer Anna Gebur, Emily Piser and Gabby Lara and for midfielders Danielle Mills and Perna.
Next up for the Thunder is a 1 p.m. match on Sunday, Sept. 19, against the West Milford Pumas at West Milford.
