Oct 23, 2025
Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Bishop Guilfoyle’s Hailey DeGol (right) celebrates her goal with Payton Ronan.
The Bishop Guilfoyle Academy girls soccer team is on a mission this season.
Boasting a wealth of experience, the Lady Marauders wasted little time asserting themselves by scoring just 41 seconds into the contest against Carroll-McCort.
Top-seeded BG added four more in the opening half en route to a 7-0 victory over the fourth-seeded Lady Huskies in District 6 Class 1A semifinal action on Wednesday night at Mansion Park.
“We want to get as far as last year and even further,” BG senior Hailey DeGol said. “This year we are really focused on working together as a team which is our main goal. Then from there, I think we can do anything as long as we work together.”
Bishop Guilfoyle moves into the championship match on Wednesday, Oct. 29, against tonight’s winner between West Branch and Richland.
10/22/25 Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski / Carroll-McCort goalkeeper Claire Long (23) makes a save on a corner kick above the head of Bishop Guilfoyle’s Lily Sapp.
DeGol got BG on the board when she tracked down a ball chipped over the Carroll-McCort defense by Delaney Lechner from the Guilfoyle defensive half. After taking three dribbles, she buried the ball into the net to the left of Carroll-McCort goalkeeper Claire Long.
“I thought Hailey did a really good job being aggressive tonight,” BG coach Joe DeLeo said. “We had a couple of tough games last week, so I was really pressuring them to make sure we were just as intense as last week.”
The Lady Marauders got another chip over the defense, this time from Lily Sapp about 50 yards away from the goal, as Meggie Ritchey ran onto it and pushed it past Claire Long for a 2-0 lead at 29:01.
“I think it (quick goal) definitely set the tone for the game,” DeGol said. “It was nice because we knew that their (Carroll-McCort) defense pushes high up towards the midfield. The game plan was to get it up over quickly towards the beginning, and we did exactly that (with the first two goals).”
Ritchey recorded the next two goals for Guilfoyle off corner kicks. The sophomore had the ball land at her feet, after it was partially cleared away, then spun and hit it in for a goal.
The next one that gave BG a 4-0 edge, saw Claire Long poke the ball out but then bounce off the foot of DeGol and go straight to Ritchey in the box, who lobbed it over the top of Claire Long before she could get back to knock it away.
“We came in with a dynamic group of freshmen girls that have really changed the speed of our game,” Carroll-McCort coach Suzanna Long said. “We have a tremendous goalie and we do a flat back, so our defense has been practicing and practicing with different levels of speed.”
DeGol gave the Marauders a 5-0 lead at the half on a great individual effort that saw her dribble along the endline, and twice keep the ball in even after Carroll-McCort players tried to slide and deflect it out, before she got an angle to kick the ball in with 11:25 left in the first half.
BG controlled the ball and kept itself on the attack for the majority of the half as it rifled 18 shots, 13 of which were on goal. As a result, Carroll-McCort managed just two shots on net and both came late in the first 40 minutes of play.
“We were happy with our possession (in the first half). That’s a good team (Bishop Carroll-McCort),” DeLeo said. “They beat a lot of good teams this year. So, we really wanted to focus on possessing the ball, and making the right plays at the right times.”
DeGol registered the hat trick and kicked the running clock into effect at 33:34 of the second half. That was when she received a pass from Calee Kennedy, ripped a shot from nearly 20 yards out that landed in the net, and then add her fourth of the evening nearly four minutes later for a 7-0 lead.
The Lady Huskies got a few more quality shots on goal as BG’s CeCe Rumfola was forced to make saves on decent scoring chances in the last 10-12 minutes of the match.
Bishop Carroll-McCort took nine shots in the second half with six of them requiring Rumfola to save them.
“That’s kind of been our thing with the girls is to try to get the girls to take the outside shots — to not try to dribble it in,” Coach Long said. “We were half a millimeter off. But our front line has tremendous footwork. It just wasn’t our day to score a goal.”
SCORE BY HALVES
Bishop Carroll-McCort 0 0 — 0
Bishop Guilfoyle 5 2 — 7
First half: BG–DeGol (Lechner), 38:19; BG–Ritchey (Sapp), 29:01; BG–Ritchey (unassisted), 25:41; BG–Ritchey (DeGol), 15:00; BG–DeGol (unassisted), 11:25.
Second half: BG–DeGol (Kennedy), 33:34; BG–DeGol (unassisted), 29:20
Goalies: Bishop Carroll-McCort — Long: 10 saves, 17 shots on goal; Bishop Guilfoyle — Rumfola: 8 saves, 8 shots on goal.
Shots: Carroll-McCort 11, Bishop Guilfoyle 26.
Corner kicks: Carroll-McCort 5, Bishop Guilfoyle 5.
Records: Carroll-McCort (11-8-0); Bishop Guilfoyle (18-1-0).
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