CPHS Soccer: Lady Sandites down Sapulpa 2-1 in overtime shootout

The Charles Page High School girls’ soccer team (1-1) picked up their first Highway 97 Rivalry win in several years Tuesday night at the Westside Sports Complex. The non-district match went into an overtime shootout that Julia Wolf won with a sudden victory penalty kick.

Sandite Pride’s soccer records are incomplete before 2016, but since then the Chieftains were 4-0 coming into Tuesday’s match and had outscored the Sandites 17-1 over those years.

Karsen Lynch became the first Lady Sandite to score on Sapulpa in two years at the 12th minute of the match, but Sara Arundell tied it up on a free kick with two minutes left in the half.

The second half was scoreless for both teams and because the match was non-district, it went straight to a shootout with no traditional overtime. Both teams got five penalty kicks, and both teams made three apiece to extend the overtime.

Arial Esparza, Carson Sargent, and Lynch made their kicks for the Sandites, while Arundell, Stormie Ramsey, and Khali English scored for the Chieftains. Sapulpa led 3-2 going into the final set of kicks and had the chance to clinch it, but Ali Day saved Paola Chavez’s attempt, setting up Lynch for the game-extender.

The second shootout was sudden victory. Ashtyn Wells missed high, giving Alyssa Perry an opportunity to win it. The Sandite was on goal but had her kick saved. Jessica Simmons’s kick followed the same path as Wells’s, and this time Wolf came up clutch with the game-winner.

The Chieftains (2-1) had nine shots on goal while Sand Springs had only five. Day recorded eight saves while Kayli Grant made four.

Sand Springs Soccer will return to action Thursday at 6:00 p.m. with a non-district home game against Muskogee (0-0). Sapulpa will take two weeks off before hosting Claremore (2-1).