Madisonville-North Hopkins led 2-1 at halftime on the way to claiming a 5-3 victory over Hopkins County Central in the girls’ 7th District soccer tournament semifinal on Tuesday.
The Lady Maroons (5-6-2) advance to Thursday’s district championship match, where they will meet top-seeded Caldwell County (6-4-1) at 6 p.m.
Abi Center and Kylee Coyle each had a pair of goals to help Madisonville turn back Hopkins Central (6-5).
Raelynn Blanford added another goal while Lillie Carman assisted on four of Madisonville’s five tallies. Lilly Pluimer also had an assist.
Kara Franklin had four saves in the Lady Maroon net.
Caldwell earned the No. 1 seed for this week’s district tournament after beating Madisonville 2-1 in a shootout earlier this month.
Both the Lady Tigers and Lady Maroons have already earned berths in the 2nd Region tournament next week at Henderson County.
