{"id":505171,"date":"2026-10-23T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505171\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:40:13","slug":"stewarts-creek-soccer-tops-oakland-on-pks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505171\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewarts Creek soccer tops Oakland on PKs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRed Hawks win second straight region title
JEFF NEAL<\/a>
Main Street Media\t\t<\/p>\n

\"\"Stewarts Creek soccer players celebrate after defeating Oakland on penalty kicks to win the region championship Thursday night at Oakland. RONNIE YAGLE<\/p>\n

Stewarts Creek and Oakland soccer battled to a 0-0 tie in regulation Thursday night, meaning penalty kicks would decide the winner of the region championship.<\/p>\n

The Red Hawks walked away with their second straight league title, outdueling the Patriots 3-2 in a thriller at Ray Hughes Stadium.<\/p>\n

Stewarts Creek will host Cleveland on Saturday at 7 p.m. in a sectional, and Oakland will travel to Rhea County looking to return to the state for the second time in three years.<\/p>\n

Central Magnet lost to Tullahoma 2-0 and will play at Signal Mountain in a quest to go its first state tournament since 2022.<\/p>\n

Oakland and Stewarts Creek battled for 100 minutes as Red Hawks\u2019 Graciela Dent and the Patriots\u2019 Avry Wilson would not budge as goalkeepers.<\/p>\n

Stewarts Creek won the coin toss and opted to go second on penalty kicks.<\/p>\n

Oakland\u2019s Lala Southammavong went first and had to go again because Dent was across the goal line. Her second attempt went over the goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just try to get in their head and make them think that they might make a mistake,\u201d Dent said of her mindset during penalty kicks.<\/p>\n

Taylor Genova of Stewarts Creek also missed as Wilson made the save just as she did in the regular season meeting at Ray Hughes Stadium on Sept 15.<\/p>\n

Kenzie Dugan and Gianna Mastrosimone scored for Oakland against Dent, and Abigail Pennington and Addison Fletcher scored against Wilson.<\/p>\n

It was sudden death, and Oakland junior Madi McManee missed her chance. It came down to Dent, who stepped up and buried the kick for the thrilling victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs disappointed as we are, we have to forget about this and tomorrow morning forget about it because we have a game that we have to go play and win,\u201d Oakland coach Jeff Boynton said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Stewarts Creek\u2019s Graciela Dent celebrates scoring the winning penalty kick in sudden death against Oakland in the region championship Thursday night at Oakland. RONNIE YAGLE.<\/p>\n

\"\"Oakland\u2019s Madi McNamee and Stewarts Creek\u2019s Kinsley Newton move in on the ball during their region championship game at Oakland Thursday night. RONNIE YAGLE<\/p>\n

\"\"Stewarts Creek\u2019s Addison Fletcher controls the ball against Oakland during their region championship game at Oakland Thursday night. RONNIE YAGLE<\/p>\n

\"\"Stewarts Creek\u2019s Chloe Surles controls the ball as Oakland\u2019s Gianna Mastrosimone looks on during their region championship game at Oakland Thursday night. RONNIE YAGLE<\/p>\n

\"\"Stewarts Creek\u2019s Abigail Pennington kicks the ball against Oakland during their region championship game at Oakland Thursday night. RONNIE YAGLE<\/p>\n

\"\"Oakland\u2019s Norrah Vaovasa controls the ball as Stewarts Creek\u2019s Cameron Kiddoo pursues during their region championship game at Oakland Thursday night. RONNIE YAGLE<\/p>\n

\"\"Stewarts Creek\u2019s Abigail Pennington and Oakland\u2019s Emmie Bradley battle for control of the ball during their region championship game at Oakland Thursday night. RONNIE YAGLE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Hawks win second straight region titleJEFF NEALMain Street Media Stewarts Creek soccer players celebrate after defeating Oakland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-505171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}