HOLLY SPRINGS -- The Fuquay-Varina boys soccer machine rolled on Monday with a 6-0 shutout victory over Holly Springs.
The Bengals improved to 8-0 overall, 4-0 in the Tri-Nine Conference, and continued their impressive run of not allowing a goal this season. Fuquay-Varina is currently ranked fifth in North Carolina and will host Green Hope, last year's 4-A state runner up, on Thursday.
"I'm just very pleased with the overall effort tonight," F-V coach James Mountford said. "We never imagined we would get to this point in the season having not allowed a goal. The guys are taking a lot of pride in the shutouts."
There was one tense moment for the Bengals, with about 8:30 left in the game, when Golden Hawks senior Ryan Gillespie nailed a shot from about 35 yards away from the F-V goal.
Bengals goalkeeper Adam Sedivy leaped in the air and corralled the ball as he landed on his back, stopping Holly Springs' best scoring opportunity of the night.
"It would have been great to get that one in," Holly Springs coach David Lanuti said. "This is the best Fuquay-Varina team I've seen, period. They were fired up and took advantage of us with their speed."
Fuquay-Varina was the quicker team to the ball much of the contest. The Bengals led 2-0 at intermission but then broke through the Golden Hawks defense for four second-half goals.
Bengals senior Davis Meyer and junior Andrew Sotak each scored twice, while David Sizemore and Andrew Starnes added one apiece.
Meyer scored his second goal off a perfect pass from Jonathan Rembecki to make the score 4-0 midway through the second half.
"At the beginning of the game Holly Springs put a lot of pressure on us," Mountford said. "In the second half I think we got settled, and then things started to open up in the middle for our offense."
Cole Schwietering and Jonathan Furr helped anchor the Bengals defense, while Sedivy notched six saves.
Golden Hawks starting goalie Tyler Ragsdale posted 11 saves before coming out of the game after Fuquay-Varina scored its fourth goal.
