Jamestown's Bailey Christian scored two second-half goals Tuesday night at Bailey Field, lifting the top-seeded Eagles past York in the Bay Rivers District girls soccer tournament semifinals.

While the 2-0 victory had no effect on Jamestown's seeding for next week's Region I tournament, the result was significant since it means the season is over for York.

The Falcons, seeded fifth in the tournament, had beaten No. 4 Warhill in the quarterfinals, but would have had to win the tournament to advance.

In the second game, second-seeded Tabb used Bri Jasenak's second-half goal to knock off No. 3 Grafton 1-0.

Jamestown and Tabb play for the district tournament championship at 6 p.m. Thursday at Wanner Stadium in James City County, but the match will have no effect on seedings for the regional tournament.

Jamestown is the No. 1 seed, Tabb No. 2, Grafton No. 3 and Warhill will be No. 4.

Christian's first goal came with 8:55 left, ending a 70-minute string of frustrations for Jamestown and several defensive stops by the Falcons.

"Their defense was just so strong," said Jamestown's Nicolette Young, the district Player of the Year.

There were at least three shots just over the top of the crossbar, one shot that clanged off the right post, two near-misses with the goal wide open and several diving stops by York keeper Elizabeth Nickerson.

"Oh my gosh, it was the most frustrating thing," Jaelyn Coates said. "We were doing well, but shots were just wide or they hit the crossbar. We just had to keep after them."

Finally Christian took a pass from Young, found an opening and this time, the ball didn't miss. Asked to describe the goal, she initially couldn't remember who the pass came from until Young, standing beside her, laughingly reminded her.

"There was so much ball movement," said Christian.

On the second goal, Aaliyah Lyttle set her up on the left side of the goal. Again, the goal was wide open for her and she didn't miss.


Halftime: 0-0. Goals: Christian 2. Assists: Young, Lyttle. Saves: Jamestown, Sams 1, Nickerson 7.

Tabb 1, Grafton 0

Tabb finally scored with 22:54 left. Bri Jasenak and a teammate got the ball past a Grafton defender, and Jasenak slotted the ball into the right side of the goal.

Five minutes later, she almost scored again, but her shot went over the top of the crossbar.

Grafton had a chance to equalize with a minute left when Madison Spratto centered the ball in front of the Tabb goal, but the Tiger defense cleared the ball away.

Unlike the first game, there were very few first-half chances in this one. Grafton had one shot bounce off the bar and the teams combined for only three shots on goal.


Halftime: 0-0. Goal: Jasenak. Saves: Tabb 3, Grafton 6.