Girls Soccer: Northville and Novi Tie Game, 0-0

Northville and Novi high schools' girls soccer teams ended their Tuesday night match-up in a 0-0 tie.

Here's a recap from Northville girls coach Eric Brucker:

In physical and hard fought rivalry game, the defenses stood tall for 0-0 tie, Brucker said.

Novi put two off the cross bar in the first half. One on a shot from 25 yards out, another after a corner kick scrum. Novi controled the first half with a lot of possession but at the end of the first half Corner were even (2); shots were even (2); score was even 0-0.

Northville opened up the second half with several near misses as they started to hit the iron. Mallory Weber and Jamie Cheslik both got behind the defense a couple of times with Weber grazing the outside of the left post. Another shot hit the inside of the left post and was almost dragged into the net by the off-balance Novi keeper.   Novi had a last ditch effort with 30 seconds to play on a corner kick from the left side. The ball was played deep into the box but goalkeeper Kiki Hilmer was up to the challenge and punched the ball out of the box and out of danger as time ran out.  

"In end it was a very balance game. Lots of physical tackles and denying of the ball. . .and a lot of missed chances," Brucker said.

Junior Kiki Hilmer was in net for the shutout. The backline rotation of Alyssa Moulds, Cassidy Ebach, Alexis Mencotti, Tess Bradley, Sasha Gardner and Claire McHugh helped to preserve the shutout for Northville.      

Northville moves to 10-0-4 (6-0-1 KLAA Central) Novi moves to 7-1-5 (5-1-1 in the KLAA Central)