{"id":689642,"date":"2026-05-24T01:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689642\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:02:08","slug":"beyond-crazy-ottawa-girls-soccer-wins-first-regional-title-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689642\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beyond crazy\u2019: Ottawa girls soccer wins first regional title \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

There would be many adjectives to describe Saturday\u2019s Class 2A Girls Soccer Regional championship match between Ottawa<\/a> and host Orion\/Sherrard United.<\/p>\n

The word, and fittingly so, that was used by many of the Pirates players was simply … Crazy.<\/p>\n

Ottawa held a five-goal lead at halftime only to see the Chargers score five consecutive times to begin the second half to tie the match.<\/p>\n

But in overtime the Pirates scored the go-ahead tally in the opening minute, then added two more the rest of the way for a 9-6 victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was beyond crazy,\u201d said Ottawa senior keeper Shaelyn Miller who made 12 saves. \u201cI have so many emotions right now and I\u2019m not sure I have words for what just happened. It was just an incredible experience and I\u2019m so proud of everyone on this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ottawa (17-4) will return to Orion on Tuesday to face Geneva (12-6-1) in the sectional semifinals at 5 p.m. Orion\/Sherrard United ends the season at 19-5.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis team has come a long way from the beginning until today,\u201d Ottawa sophomore midfielder Georgia Kirkpatrick said. \u201cWe\u2019ve all worked very hard to improve and we have. Today was a crazy match, but the one thing we did that we\u2019ve done all season is we stuck together. This was a great team win.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pirates bolted to a 5-0 lead in the opening 25 minutes with Chloe Carmona scoring three times (two off assists from Kirkpatrick and the other by Kendall Hardee) and Kirkpatrick and Allison Power also finding the back of the net. Kirkpatrick now has 32 goals and 24 assists on the season.<\/p>\n

The Chargers broke the string with five minutes remaining before halftime on a goal by Addie Jewett, but Power made it 6-1 seconds later with her 10th goal of the season off an assist by Carmona.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Orion\/Sherrard] is a very good team and a very good offensive team,\u201d Ottawa coach Kevin Olesen said. \u201cWe talked at halftime how they have the ability to score goals in bunches and to their credit they showed that in the first 20 or so minutes of the second half to tie the match. I really don\u2019t even necessarily were playing passive or bad in that stretch, they just really stepped things up.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo our girls\u2019 credit, they just kept pushing. Was it deflating to have our big lead overcome? Sure, but these girls wouldn\u2019t be denied the goal they had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orion\/Sherrard exploded out of the break as Jewett scored twice in the opening five minutes. Then over the next 18 minutes Tegen Butler scored three times, the final tally with 17 minutes to play to tie the match at 6-6.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was looking a little bleak for sure,\u201d Ottawa senior defender Taylor Brandt said. \u201cThey had the momentum and we just couldn\u2019t seem to get it back. They are such a talented team, and they showed they wanted this match just as much as we did. We may have let our guard down after halftime, but they also came out ready to go. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure I would have believed you if you\u2019d told me this season would play out like it has before it started. It\u2019s been so great and I\u2019m super proud of everyone on this team. I can\u2019t believe how crazy today was.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pirates took the lead for good just 56 seconds into the first of two 10-minute overtime periods when Carmona took a quick, short pass from Kirkpatrick and hard shot into the low left corner of the cage.<\/p>\n

Carmona added another off a Kirkpatrick assist in the second extra period then put the icing on the cake with a penalty kick goal with four minutes left. <\/p>\n

Carmona\u2019s six goals in the match now gives the junior forward an eye-popping 54 on the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was such an intense, just crazy match,\u201c Carmona said. \u201dWe talked before overtime about how we needed a strong start, we had to get the momentum back. Then Georgia made the great move to start overtime, the ball just ended up on my foot to me, and I was able to get a shot past their keeper. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like a huge weight was lifted off our team\u2019s shoulders. They had already made an amazing comeback before, so the key was not letting that happen again.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There would be many adjectives to describe Saturday\u2019s Class 2A Girls Soccer Regional championship match between Ottawa and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,71369,59907,59895,12721,59894,561,82],"class_list":["post-689642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-girls-soccer","tag-mywebtimes","tag-ottawa-preps","tag-premium","tag-prep-sports","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}