ROUND ROCK — After watching the boys take care of business in the morning, the Covenant School of Dallas girls were not to be outdone. Kaitlin Swann made sure of it with two goals, as the Knights made it a clean sweep of Schertz John Paul II Catholic School in the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools Division III championship games.
“It was great motivation and a great job by them, too,” Swann said of watching the boys win in the morning. “Covenant came home with the wins, but great competition by JP2.”
Swann drew first blood in the 10th minute, calmly collecting a cross from Ellie Fox and slotting a shot into the bottom right corner. It remained 1-0 until after halftime, when Swann struck again off an assist by Margo Girtz. Girtz scored the dagger with less than 5 minutes left to kill off an attempted comeback.
Swann's goals were her 50th and 51st of the season, setting a new program record. She scored 27 goals last year as a freshman.
“I was motivated to break a record and had a great team to help me do it,” said Swann, who plays club soccer for Sting Dallas.
The high-powered Knights (20-3) scored 140 goals on the season — an average of more than six per game — including 30 goals and 17 assists from midfield maestra Fox. Covenant avenged a loss to John Paul last year, taking the final step in the program’s rebuild under third-year coach Redding.
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“Every year we’ve just gotten better,” he said. “My first year we were 13-5-4, last year we were 17-5-1 and then this year we go 20-3.”
Emilie Rompel scored the lone goal for the Guardians with a little more than 20 minutes left, when she got behind the Covenant defense on a counterattack.