Sports Editor

The Region 4-AAAA All Region girls' high school soccer

team recently announced and Fayette's local teams made a mark. Of

the 12 players selected, ten were from either Fayette or Coweta County.

McIntosh High's strikers, Julie Herdic and Keri

Pendergrass, were selected to the two striker positions. Both are

sophomores at McIntosh and this was the second time that they had been

voted to the team. Herdic scored 59 goals this year and recorded

21 assists, while Pendergrass scored 25 times and notched 14 assists.

Diana Chang and Mandy Kovach of Fayette County

High School were both selected as midfielders. Chang, a senior,

and Kovach, a junior, each scored 13 goals. Chang assisted on 10

goals while Kovach assisted on four.

It was a return appearance on the team for Chang. East

Coweta's senior Ashley Martin also was selected as a midfielder.

She scored six goals and recorded nine assists this season for the

Lady Indians.

For defenders, McIntosh and Newnan each had a player

selected and Fayette County had two players selected.

Freshman Melanie Schneider of McIntosh scored 10 goals as defender

and recorded five assists.

Fayette County's Megan Stewart, a sophomore, and

Kelly Braziel, a junior, were both selected as defenders to the

region team. Stewart notched a goal and an assist in her second time

selected to the team, while Braziel scored twice and assisted

three goals.

Senior Anne Barrow of Newnan made the team as defender.

She scored five goals and assisted a goal. She had been selected to

the team before.

The goalkeeper selected to the team was sophomore

Cassie Coggins of Fayette County High. She had a goals allowed

average of 1.2 this season, allowing 24 goals in 20 games. She

recorded nine shutouts this season.

Other players receiving votes were Micki Stone and

Karen Varisco of McIntosh and B. Sewell of East Coweta.

The best attacker in the region went unanimously to Julie

Herdic of McIntosh. It was the second year in a row that she won

the award. Melanie Schneider of McIntosh won the best

defender award.

For the second year in a row, Diana Chang of Fayette

County High School was selected the most valuable player.

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