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NA’s Cruz: Making good on an early season promise goal producers in northern New Jersey with 25 goals and for good measure has It was early September at added 15 assists for the Riverside County Park in Vikings, who are enjoying Lyndhurst and the reporter a sensational 14-3-1 record was at the soccer field to do that included two wins in his weekly Athlete of the the recent Bergen County Week feature on a North Ar- Tournament for the first lington soccer player Tiago time in school history. Alves. Incredibly the Vikings At that time, another were seeded 28th in the BerNorth Arlington soccer gen tournament, but upset player stepped toward the Westwood and Lyndhurst to reporter and asked a simple advance to the quarterfinals, question. where they fell to Paramus. “What about me?” North The Vikings now head to Arlington girls’ soccer the state playoffs as the No. sophomore forward Lia Cruz 4 seed in the NJSIAA North said. “When are you going to Jersey Section 2, Group I write about me?” tournament against BrearCruz was informed that if ley Regional of Kenilworth. she continued to score goals They played at Rip Collins and lead her team to victoTuesday and with a win, ries, chances are she would they could face rival Secauget honored with the weekly cus in the next round Friday feature. at the Rip at 2 p.m. Lo and behold, the time No question, junior Aranhas come to feature the per- cha Antunes deserves a lot sonable and confident young of credit for the Vikings’ lady. Cruz has scored at success with 16 goals, but least one goal in six straight there’s no denying the rapid games. She is among the top improvement of Cruz, who
scored only nine goals last year as a freshman in the truncated COVID-19 schedule. Going from nine goals to 25 in a single season is a dramatic improvement. “I think we’re seeing her do all the little things,” said North Arlington head girls’ coach Mike Vivino. “She’s doing more tactical things. She’s made herself a little more well rounded.” The goal explosion just might be tied to a position change, going from center midfield to forward. “She did play center mid, but there was no doubt in my mind that she was going to be a forward,” Vivino said. “We kind of went back and
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