BANGOR, Maine — The George Stevens Academy Eagles from Blue Hill put on an impressive display of attacking soccer on Wednesday night, scoring three unanswered first-half goals en route to their first Class C North championship since 2002 with a 4-0 victory over Mount View High School of Thorndike on a frigid Wednesday night at Cameron Stadium in Bangor.
George Stevens, the fourth seed, improved to 13-2-2, while sixth seed Mount View finished up 12-5.
GSA will play the winner of the Mt. Abram-Traip Academy of Kittery in Saturday’s state championship game at Mount Ararat High School in Topsham.
Midfielders Reed Pambianco and Rowan Gagne, and striker Fred Coit, all juniors, scored in the first half as the Eagles dominated possession and had a 13-3 edge in shot attempts.
Coit added his second in the second half.
Pambianco opened the scoring 12:42 into the game when he received the ball at the top of the penalty area and neatly fired a shot inside the post to the left of Bernie Dodge.
Just under 10 minutes later, Coit expanded the lead thanks to a beautiful through ball from Pambianco, whose pass sent him in alone on Dodge.
Coit tucked it past the goalkeeper from nine yards out.
Four minutes later, the Mustangs came inches away from cutting the lead to one.
Mount View was awarded a free kick just outside the penalty area and Tanner Oathout’s well-struck free kick got through to keeper Haven Smith and bounced around on the goal line and appeared to on the verge of rolling over the goal line.
But GSA senior back Brady Pert came to the rescue, clearing it out of danger.
Eight minutes later, GSA made it 3-0 off a nifty give-and-go passing sequence that saw Dominic Levells take the ball to the end line before sending a low cross to the net front where Gagne ran on to it and guided it home from five yards out.
Coit scored from close-range midway through the second half.
Smith finished with five saves on 11 shots while Dodge wound up with nine stops on 20 shots.
Lightning-quick and talented striker Noah Hurd was dangerous throughout but the Eagles did a nice job getting numbers back to keep him off the scoresheet.
