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The Corbin soccer program christened their new complex Monday night with a sweep of the Pulaski County Maroons. The new field is located adjacent to Corbin Primary School off 5^th Street. When completed it will be a state of the art complex for Corbin High School soccer.

Coach Eric Steeley’s Lady Redhounds opened the night with a 1-0 win over Pulaski County while the Redhounds thrashed the visiting Maroons, 7-1.

“That’s the way you want to start the season,” said Steely. “It’s nice to open our new complex with a win. It’s exciting for the girls and the fans.”

The win gave Corbin a win over a team it lost to last season and got the Lady Redhounds off to a good start. Pulaski County took a 2-0 win in Somerset last season.

It was a battle in the heat for the two teams that took a break every 20 minutes. Neither team was able to score in the first twenty minutes but Corbin had its chances. Amerah Dixon broke loose for a shot with 33:35 in the opening half but missed. She fired two more times but was unable to connect.

Sophomore Kaitlin Baker got the Redhounds on the scoreboard for what was the winning goal at the 5:21 mark.

Pulaski County came right back and nearly tied the game with a goal on an indirect kick. However, the ball didn’t touch a PC player and was disallowed. The Lady Redhounds went to the half with a 1-0 lead.

The second half was a defensive battle as neither team could break away for a goal.

Steely said he was pleased with his team’s play but like many still have things to work on.

Corbin will travel to McCreary Central Thursday for a 6 p.m. contest. The Lady Raiders opened the season with Middlesboro Monday night with a 10-0 loss.

Corbin 7, Pulaski 1

“We came out with a lot of energy which is good,” said Corbin Coach Armando Cima. That energy spilled over to a 7-1 rout of the Pulaski County Maroons as Corbin opened the season with an easy win.

The Redhounds used the first ten minutes of the game to feel their way round the Pulaski County defense. Corbin posted three scores in the ten minutes then added two more late in the half for a 5-0 lead at the break.

Junior Drew Farley got the Redounds on the scoreboard when he got past the Pulaski County defense for a shot at the 27:19 mark. Less than two minutes later the Redhounds were knocking at the door when one of the Corbin players was tripped up in the box. A penalty was called and sophomore Brody Freeman nailed the one-on-one shot for a 2-0 lead with 25:35 on the clock.

With the defense making quick work of the Maroons, Corbin got control of the ball and headed back down field. It didn’t take long for senior Chris Moye to show his skills and get the ball in the corner of the net for a 3-0 lead at the 23:00.

With Cima sending in subs to keep his team from overheating, the teams settled into another defensive battle before senior Joseph Partin lofted the ball over the defense for a 40-yard goal with seven minutes in the half.

Corbin rounded out the scoring at the 2:22 mark when junior Cameron Lambert put the Redhounds ahead, 5-0.

Corbin’s sixth goal came right off the bat when senior James Grinter scored less that 65 seconds into the half (38:58).

Cima kept the game from really getting ugly by settling his team in a defensive mode. Pulaski County was able to break into the scoring column when Matt Williams scored on a breakaway with 17:25 left in the game on what should have been an off-sides.

Partin added his second goal with 13:14 left in the contest for the 7-1 win.

“We played much better today than we did in our scrimmage against Estill County Saturday,” said Cima. “Once we got on them we just started doing the things we talked about before the game and that was move the ball from side to side and keeping our spacing.”

“We played with a lot of energy and won the second balls and just did all the things we talked about. That lent a lot of options which led to a lot of people scoring,” Cima said.

The Redhounds will host the Ryle Raiders Saturday at 4 p.m. Ryle took a hard-fought 1-0 win over the Redhounds last year in the heat.

“They play in a tough part of the state…northern Kentucky,” said Cima. “Last year we played them at their place in just horrible weather, we had kids dropping right and left because of the heat and had to take breaks every 15 minutes. And it was one to nothing.”

“They lost a lot of good players from last year and we lost a lot of good players, it just depends on who reloaded better,” Cima said.