The Smith-Cotton girls soccer team will have a new look on defense.
Gone are Ali Mateja and Lauren Azan and gone too is the Lady Tigers’ five-back system with a sweeper and a stopper in favor of the four-back system, something Shawn Cairer has never used in his eight years at Smith-Cotton.
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