It turned out to be worth the wait.
After a weather delay of just less than two hours, the Capital City Lady Cavaliers scored three goals in each half Friday in a 6-0 victory against the Branson Lady Pirates at Capital City High School.
The start was anything but slow. “One of our biggest problems last year was we weren’t really clicking, high-intensity, focused during warmup,” Capital City coach Travis Cairer said Monday night after the Lady Cavaliers scored four times in the first eight-plus minutes in a 7-2 victory against the Warrenton Warriors at Capital City High School. “That led to a lot of slow and sluggish starts, so we’ve been harping about coming out of the gate firing. We don’t want to be put back on our heels early, that happened too much last year.”
It was the defense that won it. That might have been difficult to see at the start Tuesday night as the Capital City Lady Cavaliers and Father Tolton Lady Blazers were tied at 2 midway through the first half at Dwight T. Reed Stadium. It just took a little change in strategy to turn the game around for the Lady Cavaliers.