Williams earns 200th career win as Eastern Tech downs Towson for the Baltimore County girls soccer championship

Kim Williams had to sweat out her 200th career win as Eastern Tech’s girls soccer coach.

That’s because a feisty team from Towson (8-3-2) was giving the No. 9 Mavericks(11-2-1) all they could handle until senior back Alexis Keller-Posen went airborne to finish junior Abigail Lee’s corner with 8:17 left in regulation of the Baltimore County girls soccer championship Tuesday night at CCBC-Essex.

Keller-Posen, a College of New Jersey commit, said that she was getting nervous in the second half while facing the Generals, whose one-and-two-touch passes helped them to possess the ball for good portions of the match.

However, with senior forward Emma Koller shielding Towson senior keeper Mary Claire Huebeck, Keller-Posen was able to break the deadlock with her sixth goal of the season to secure ET’s eighth county crown during Williams’ 22-year reign.

”We were taking a lot of pressure,” Williams said. “It got a little bumpy, but I had faith in my girls that we could pull it out. And when we got that corner, I felt like we could find Alexis’ head.”

While there were exceptions, neither team created very many scoring chances in the first half, although the Generals did threaten on a shot that rattled off the post in the early going before a 25-yard direct kick by sophomore midfielder Koto Davis bounced off the crossbar in the 39th minute.

And the Mavericks had a promising opportunity as well when Koller’s left-footed drive was gobbled up by Huebeck with 3:50 left in the half.

Other than those sequences, both teams’ defenses maintained a rigid posture throughout the first 40 minutes.

That trend continued after the intermission, only with Towson getting the better of play and coming within inches of spurting ahead when senior forward Estelle Gerber’s point-blank shot smacked the post and rolled into a group of players congregating near the goal.

The Generals were denied again a few seconds later when the ball ping-ponged from the scrum toward the right corner until it was brushed aside by junior goalie Ellen Williams (no relation to Kim Williams).

”It was beautiful — and heartbreaking,” Towson coach Lauren Hanley said. “It was everything we worked on all season. The girls did everything we asked them to do. We did a great job of containing their best forward.”

Led by seniors Claire Boudreau, Dylan Dickensheets and Lucy Vettori, Towson’s backline never faltered.

The same can be said for ET defenders — seniors Keller-Posen and Sophia Johnson, junior Elaina Williams and freshman Lillian Hutchings.

Kim Williams said that she and her staff had figured that 200 wins was doable this fall.

”We saw it could happen this year,” she said. “We just kept piling up wins.”

BALTIMORE COUNTY GIRLS SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP

(at CCBC-Essex)

NO. 9 EASTERN TECH 1, TOWSON 0

Towson 0 0 — 0

Eastern Tech 0 1 — 1

Goal: ET-Alexis Keller-Posen

Assist: ET-Abigail Lee

Saves: Towson-Mary Claire Huebeck 4; Eastern Tech-Elaina Williams 5