It took the Garden City girls soccer team all of 91 seconds to prove it wasn’t messing around in its title defense.

The Trojans scored less than two minutes into their season opener and that was all the offense they needed in a 1-0 victory over host Massapequa in a Nassau Conference AAA/AA-I girls soccer match on Thursday. After winning a county championship last year , Garden City spoke throughout the offseason about wanting to continue the program’s legacy. It didn’t take long for the words to be put into action.

“The expectations are high and that creates pressure, but in a way it also creates motivation as well,” coach Scott McAuley said. “They know that they are filling big shoes, that the whole community is kind of expecting it. It’s Garden City in general, you know how the sport

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