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‘Beyond crazy’: Ottawa girls soccer wins first regional title · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Beyond crazy. Ottawa girl soccer wins first regional title. Written
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  by Brian Hoxy, This article is being read by an
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  automated voice brought to you by Everlett. There would be
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  many adjectives to describe Saturday's Class two A Girls' Soccer
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  Regional championship match between Ottawa and host Orion. Sherard united.
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  The word, and fittingly so, that was used by many
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  of the Pirates players was simply crazy. Ottawa held a
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  five goal lead at halftime, only to see the Chargers
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  score five consecutive times to begin the second half to
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  tie the match. But in overtime, the Pirates scored the
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  go ahead tally in the opening minute, then added two
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  more the rest of the way for a nine to
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  sixth victory. That was beyond crazy, said Ottawa senior keeper
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  Shalon Miller, who made twelve saves. I have so many
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  emotions right now, and I'm not sure I have words
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  for what just happened. It was just an incredible experience
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  and I'm so proud of everyone on this team. Ottawa
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  seventeen to four will return to Orion on Tuesday to
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  face Geneva June first, twelve in the sectional semifinals at
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  five pm. Oriyan Scherrard United ends the season at nineteen
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  to five. This team has come a long way from
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  the beginning until today, Ottawa sophomore midfielder Georgia Kirkpatrick said.
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  We've all worked very hard to improve and we have.
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  Today was a crazy match, but the one thing we
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  did that we've done all season is we stuck together.
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  This was a great team win. The Pirates bolted to
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  a five zero lead in the opening twenty five minutes,
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  with Chloe Carmona scoring three times, two off assists from
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  Kirkpatrick and the other by Kendall Hardy and kirkpeth Patrick
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  and Allison Power also finding the back of the net.
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  Kirkpatrick now has thirty two goals and twenty four assists
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  on the season. The Chargers broke the string with five
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  minutes remaining before halftime on a goal by Addie Jewett,
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  but Power made it six one seconds later with her
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  tenth goal of the season, often assist by Carmona Orion
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  Shashard is a very good team and a very good
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  offensive team, Ottawa coach Kevin Olison said. We talked at
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  halftime how they have the ability to score goals in bunches,
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  and to their credit, they showed that in the first
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  twenty or so minutes of the second half to tie
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  the match. I really don't even necessarily were playing passive
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  or bad in that stretch. They just really stepped things up.
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  To our girl's credit, they just kept pushing. Was it
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  deflating to have our big lead overcome, sure, but these
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  girls wouldn't be denied the goal they had. Bryan Schurrard
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  exploded out of the break as Jewett scored twice in
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  the opening five minutes. Then over the next eighteen minutes,
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  Takan Butler scored three times the final tally. With seventeen
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  minutes to play to tie the match at six sixth,
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  it was looking a little bleak for sure. Ottawa senior
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  defender Taylor Brandt said they had the momentum and we
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  just couldn't seem to get it back. They are such
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  a talented team and they showed they wanted this match
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  just as much as we did. We may have let
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  our guard down after halftime, but they also came out
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  ready to go. I'm not sure I would have believed
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  you if you'd told me this season would play out
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  like it has before it started. It's been so great
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  and I'm super proud of everyone on this team. I
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  can't believe how crazy today was. The Pirates took the
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  lead for good just fifty six seconds into the first
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  of two ten minute overtime periods, when Carmona took a
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  quick short pass from Kirkpatrick and hard shot into the
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  low left corner of the cage. Carmona added another off
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  a Kirkpatrick assist in the second to extra period, then
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  put the easting on the cake with a penalty kick
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  goal with four minutes left. Carmona's six goals in the
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  match now gives the junior forward and eye popping fifty
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  four on the season. That was such an intense, just
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  crazy match, Carmona said. We talked before overtime about how
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  we needed a strong start. We had to get the
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  momentum back. Then Georgia made the great move to start overtime.
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  The ball just ended up on my foot to me
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  and I was able to get a shot past their keeper.
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  It was like a huge weight was lifted off our
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  team's shoulders. They had already made an amazing comeback before,
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  so the key was not letting that happen again.