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Beimfohr Has the Scorer's Touch

Katie Beimfohr led Millburn soccer in scoring and led them to a state title

One of the names most synonymous with the greatest Millburn girls soccer team of all-time is Katie Beimfohr. She led the team in scoring, was among the team leaders last season and was such a vital piece to Millburn's Group 3 championship puzzle this fall. "It's certainly gratifying to know that after everything we've done and all of our hard work, we were able to end on such a high note. So we're all pretty happy," Beimfohr said. She finished the season with a team high 15 goals and assisted five times in leading the girls to a 17-6 season, the program's second ever sectional championship and its first ever Group 3 championship. She scored the game winner in the Group 3 semifinal, scored in the county semifinal game and in a bunch more …

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Sood to Play in Senior Showcase on Saturday

The Miller is part of the girls soccer championship team.

A member of the Millburn girls soccer state championship team has been selected to play in the North vs. South Senior Showcase this Saturday. Tanya Sood will play in the game scheduled for 1 p.m. in Metuchen. The game is organized and selected by the New Jersey Girls Soccer Coaches Association, the same organization that grants All-State honors. Millers head coach Andy Sones said no other Millburn player has been previously selected as far as he's aware.

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Greatest of All Time: Looking Back on the Championship Season

The Miller girls soccer team completes the best season in team history.

Anytime someone mentions the Beimfohrs, Tanya Sood, Nikki Willens, Tori Graessle and the rest of the 2010 Millburn girls soccer team, the words "greatest ever" will have to be mentioned likely the next 20 years. "I've had a big goofy smile on my face since we won it, and it hasn't left since," said Millburn head coach Andy Sones. "This is the biggest and most exciting highlight of my coaching career so far." In winning Group 3 championship, the Miller girls have won the highest possible championship that any Group 3 team can win. Barring a Miller team going undefeated on the way to the group championship, all future Millburn girls teams can hope for is to be just as good—it would be hard to imagine a team being better. When you consider …

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Miller Girls Rally to Win Group 3 Championship

The Millburn girls soccer team comes back to win its first ever state title.

A journey four years in the making came to a victorious conclusion on Saturday morning at The College of New Jersey. The Millburn girls soccer team completed its playoff run with an impressive 4-2 win over Hopewell Valley, earning the team its first ever Group 3 championship. "This is so amazing. It's just really great that we were able to come this far," said Miller senior Taylor Perretti. "This was our year. We were able to work so well with each other and just play off of each other." The Hopewell Valley Bulldogs came into the game with just one loss, 16 shutouts and allowing six goals all season. The Bulldogs had never surrendered more than a goal in any game this fall. The Bulldogs still had no answer for the Miller girls who …

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Millburn Soccer Club Round-Up: MAPS Fall Challenge

A round-up of action from the traveling soccer league last weekend.

The U-12 Pythons emerged as the champions of the MAPS Fall Challenge after battling some fierce opposition in last weekend's tournament in Ft. Dix. The Pythons opened the tournament on Saturday shutting out Everton America, the top ranked U-12 team in Connecticut, by a score of 3-0. The Pythons dropped their second game to the Yardley Makefield Inferno (Pa.) by a score of 5-1. The Pythons blasted back on Sunday morning with a 4-3 victory over the Tap FC Barca (Md.), which moved the Pythons into the semi-final round. Another 3-0 shutout, this time against the NE Aztec Soccer Boys (Mass.), propelled the Pythons into the finals to face the Yardley Makefield Inferno, the one team to which they had lost so far. At half-time during the finals …

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The Magic Continues: Miller Girls Move on to Group 3 Title Game

The Millburn girls soccer team beats Ramapo 1-0 to earn a shot at the championship.

The Millburn girls soccer team has gone 420 minutes this postseason without surrendering a goal and extended their shutout streak to six consecutive games with a 1-0 victory over Ramapo in the Group 3 semifinals on a rainy Tuesday night at Ridge High School in Basking Ridge. "I knew that their objective was going to be to score more goals than us and I knew that our objective was to concede less than they did," said Millburn head coach Andy Sones. "I knew that if we could shutout, that we could score a goal, and we did." A great first half goal by Katie Beimfohr and another superb performance by the Millers defensively, including 10 combined saves from keepers Tori Graessle and Courtney Brosnan, led to Millburn's first ever trip to the …

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Millburn Girls Soccer Wins Section Title

The girls won their first section championship in 20 years

An early goal by sophomore Jenny Olensky, backed up by Millburn's fifth consecutive shutout and fourth of this postseason, led to the Miller girls soccer team capturing its first state sectional championship since 1990 Friday afternoon. Fifth-seeded Millburn held off a relentless late push by the third-seeded West Morris Central Wolf Pack in Chester on Friday afternoon and won the North II Group 3 section 1-0. "We talked about trying to score early," said Millburn head coach Andy Sones. "It was never going to be a pretty game on this field. But on a field like this, you'd rather be hanging on to a lead than chasing." Following a throw-in by Miller co-captain Emily Beimfohr, Olensky settled the ball just outside of the goalie box in Wolf …

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Miller Girls Advance to Sectional Finals

The girls soccer team beats top-seeded Scotch Plains on the road.

For the second consecutive season the Millburn girls soccer team has gone on the road and knocked off the top seed in the North II Group 3 playoffs to advance to the finals. A shutout performance by Miller keeper Tori Graessle and the Millburn defense, coupled with a 35-yard beauty of a goal from Emily Beimfohr in the second half, led to a 1-0 semifinal victory over Scotch Plains on Tuesday. "It was character today. They played better soccer than us in the first half, we were hanging on for the last 10 or 12 minutes and somehow we did hang on," said Miller head coach Andy Sones. "Second half we were a little more into it, it was obviously a defensive game for us today. But we've got players who are capable of going and picking one out at …

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Millburn FC Wanderers Tie Bergen in Showcase

The team finished the second half of the season at 5-2-2.

The Millburn FC Wanderers rebounded from a 2-7 spring soccer season, and finished the second half at 5-2-2. On Sunday the Wanderers faced the Bergen United Pirates in the USL showcase in Millburn, tying at 2-2.  The Wanderers scored on Ian Blackman's league-leading 11th goal of the season.  United brought the game level just before halftime. Bergen took the lead 10 minutes into the second half, but with 15 minutes remaining, the Wanderers Captain Charlie Guevara fired a low shot to the corner of the goal, tieing the score at 2-2. The Wanderers will return to Division 2 of the USL in the spring with the hopes of earning promotion to the USL's Premiere division in 2012.

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Millburn Soccer Club Round-Up: Halloween Weekend Action

A look at action from Oct. 30-31.

The Millburn Soccer Club continues its season. Here's the latest round-up of the club's action: The Magic made it look easy last Saturday with a convincing 8-3 victory over the Bridgewater soccer club Galaxy. Chloe Zegas led the avalanche of scoring with 2 goals. Gabby Kowalcyk, Avani Kabra, Ally Lindsey,Amber Jacobsen, Kaylee Donnelly, and Morgan Darrow who also had an assist all scored a goal each. The Millburn Missiles defeated the Metuchen Fire 2-1 last Saturday behind goals from Koby Cohen and Benjamin Lipkin and stellar defense from William Maddox and Austin Wolk.  Annie Beckerman and Ava Belcoure each scored a goal for the Hornets, sparking a 2-1 win over Berkley Heights last Saturday at the Millburn stadium.  Keeper Katherine …

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