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This had been a special season from the start for the Richmond Academy Girls soccer team, but it got even better on March 21 when the Lady Musketeers defeated Salem while Harlem took down Morgan County, allowing ARC to claim the Region 4-AAA championship.
This had been a special season from the start for the Richmond Academy Girls soccer team, but it got even better on March 21 when the Lady Musketeers defeated Salem while Harlem took down Morgan County, allowing ARC to claim the Region 4-AAA championship.
ARC holds an impressive 12-2 overall record with a 7-0 mark in region play ahead of Thursday’s 5:30 p.m. clash with region nemesis Morgan County.
Richmond’s only two losses came to a pair of Class AAAAAA schools, Alexander and Dunwoody. Aside from that, ARC has dominated everyone in its classification, but no win has been as big as its 2-1 victory over Morgan County back on Feb. 29.
Morgan County had been the Musketeers’ thorn in the side for the last three seasons, but finally being able to get over that hump was something coach Kevin Scheyer said was monumental to his program.
“It means the world to beat Morgan County and win a Region Championship after being 0-6 and coming in second for three years,” said Scheyer, who is in his 19th year at the helm of the program.
“Our games have always been close. This year, it just clicked more. The continuous hunger and desire to win in our last year in this current region. And the girls will tell you, this win is for all the prior players who just couldn’t make it happen. This means everything to the Richmond soccer program.”
If you’re wondering if past players still cared about the Morgan County game, consider the gesture ARC alums sent the current squad before the February game.
“Three years of former players sent our girls a video wishing them good luck in that game against Morgan,” Scheyer said. “Then [they] subsequently sent texts and videos after hearing we won. These girls, all in college, felt the win and were just as happy for us as if they played in the game.”
The Musketeers continued their impressive play after that victory, winning their next five matches by a combined score of 42-2.
ARC is led by the sister tandem of Carolina and Caitlyn Rivers who also starred for the Musketeers’ volleyball team..
Carolina Rivers leads the team in goals with 24, and Caitlyn Rivers is second with 21. Those numbers place them at Nos. 6 and 10 respectively on the state’s leaderboard for goals.
This was also the Musketeers’ seventh region title and first since 2020.
ARC’s four seniors, Carolina Rivers, Dearing Eaves, Mary Broome, and Tyme Hankerson. All look to make a final run as Musketeers.
Now, when ARC plays Morgan County Thursday in the regular season finale, it won’t be to get the proverbial monkey off its back, but rather to keep building momentum toward what Scheyer and his team hopes will be a deep state tournament run.
“We are able to play them now, knowing that win or lose, we will be the 2024 Region Champions,” Scheyer said. “However, our plan is to continue our goal of beating them twice and being undefeated in the region.”
After that, Richmond will play host to a yet-to-be-determined opponent in the GHSA Class AAA state playoffs’ first round on April 16.
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