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By Brian Pitts
Enterprise Record

Enjoy this. Smell the roses. Don’t take this Davie girls soccer season for granted.
The War Eagles rallied for a 1-1 tie at Reynolds on April 9. The tie and a shutout win over Glenn kept them in third place and in contention for second.
How significant would a second- or third-place finish in the CPC be for the War Eagles? They haven’t finished better than fifth since 2005, when they tied for third. What’s more, they have already achieved the most wins (nine) in 17 years.
Davie and Reynolds went at it for 100 minutes as overtime failed to deliver a winner.
“It was what I expected when we walked into the game,” coach Corbin Kopetzky said. “They are a very competitive team. They’re young, but they’ve got some good talent and they’ve got a really good bench, so they’re able to put people in.”
It was scoreless at halftime and the Demons (5-3-3 overall) seized a 1-0 lead early in the second half.
“We left a girl wide open in the middle,” Kopetzky said. “They played her a good ball. Our step was late and she was able to put it in the back of the net.”
And then: “That what might have been our only mishap of the whole game. I think this is one of the best games we’ve played all season. Everybody showed up to play. We’re finally at the point: It’s not ‘if we don’t work hard, Davie is going to scare us. Now it’s ‘we’ve got to work hard or Davie is beating us.’ It’s nice to be at that point.”
The War Eagles could finally exhale when top-scorer Lanna Robinson found the back of the net midway through the second half.
“Lanna did what she does,” he said. “She put it lower 90 on the left side.”
That was it as far as scoring. When the dust settled, Davie and Reynolds remained in third and fourth place, respectively.
“I think we controlled a little more of the game,” Kopetzky said. “We had a few shots that just didn’t fall for us, but overall, if I was sitting in the crowd, that would have been the best game to have watched this year.
“We’re not a team that’s going to be outworked. We walked away without a loss and that was a good feeling.”
Senior defender Monica Ramirez played a huge part in the tie.
“She played on their best player,” he said. “If you’re going to play well, you’ve got to take the best player out of the game and she locked her down. I know how she can show up, but in that moment the level of soccer she produced the whole game and how tired she was when she walked off the field was a testament to how hard she showed up for 100 minutes. (She sat out) maybe two minutes. She said: ‘Coach, I just need to come off and get a sip of water and I’m going right back in.’ We didn’t sub a lot. We had a lineup that was working. Most of them played 100 minutes.”
Davie 4, Glenn 0
One night later, Davie was hardly perfect but didn’t have any trouble blanking hapless Glenn on the road.
All the scoring was done in the first half. Robinson had half the goals, while Kate Chaffin and Lydia Postell had one each.
“We didn’t play a great game,” Kopetzky said. “We played 100 minutes the night before and it was pouring down rain. The field conditions weren’t great. In the second half, we didn’t leave our offensive half very much, but we took too many shots and didn’t put enough of them in the back of the net.”
There’s beautiful chaos in the CPC standings. While West Forsyth is standing in first at 6-0, there’s little separating East Forsyth (4-1), Davie (5-2-1) and Reynolds (3-1-2).
Notes: Davie (9-2-2 overall) has the most wins since going 12-8-1 in 2008. It has the most CPC wins in 10 years. … Robinson, a junior, has 17 goals after putting in 14 in 2024. It’s the most goals by a War Eagle in 11 years (Brooke Hedgspeth had 25 in 2014). … The Bobcats fell to 2-8. They’ve lost 12 straight to Davie, including seven straight shutouts by an aggregate score of 54-0. … The 1-1 score with Reynolds was reminiscent of the 2024 matchups, when Davie lost 1-0 before tying 1-1 in Winston-Salem.