MARYSVILLE — After 90 minutes of scoreless soccer in regulation and two overtimes, Lakewood took a shootout victory 5-3 over Archbishop Murphy in a girls soccer match at Lakewood High School Thursday night.
The first five-minute period of overtime in Thursday’s game yielded a prime scoring opportunity for Archbishop Murphy, the top team in the Cascade Conference entering the game, but Lakewood keeper Miranda Head saved a ball in the 85th minute as the first overtime was coming to a close.
“She is definitely our field general out there,” said Lakewood head coach Jeremiah Wohlgemuth of his keeper. “She’s just got a calming presence back there.”
And after Archbishop Murphy’s Anna Whitehouse made an 88th-minute save, the game went to penalty kicks, where Miranda Head, Lakewood’s senior leader and last year’s Cascade Conference defensive MVP, shot and scored the first goal of the shootout for Lakewood.
“We’re in double digits with PK games the last few years, and we’ve only lost two of those” said Wohlgemuth. “We feel really confident, we’ve won enough of them. And a lot of our confidence comes from Miranda (Head). She usually gets to at least one, so we know that we have a great opportunity to win in a shootout.”
After Head connected on her shootout kick, Kiley Brown, Kennady Bonnallie, Arianna Barrio and Tayler Steele all scored on their kicks for Lakewood.
The shutout is Head’s third straight for Lakewood (5-1 league, 5-1-1 overall). Archbishop Murphy drops to 5-1, 7-1 with the loss.
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