By MICHAEL BOYLAN

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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