On May 5th (not sure of this date), the Lady Charger soccer team won a thrilling game over Creston in a shoot out, 4-3. The match was tied 2-2 at the end of regulation and Chariton won the shootout, 2-1, to get the win. With the victory, Chariton moved to 4-1 on the season.
Creston wasted no time in showing that they were intent on reversing a previous 3-0 loss, as they scored two goals within the first six minutes of the game. Finding themselves down 2-0, Chariton tried to shake off the rust from a nearly two-week layoff duer to weather related postponements. With just 13 minutes left in the first half, Chariton got on the board when sophomore midfielder Deni St. Lawrence gathered a ball on the left side and angled toward the goal, sending a shot into the box, which eventually found the back of the net. The Lady Chargers went into halftime trailing 2-1.
The second half was evenly played, with Chariton gradually creating more scoring chances. With under four minutes left in the game, goal-keeper Bayley Morris gathered the ball and sent a great punt down field, which senior midfielder Emily Grismore ran on to get. Grismore outraced two defenders and put the ball into the right corner of the goal to tie the game.
The Lady Chargers continued to attack and with just over a minute left in the game forward Kourtney Nichol took a shot which the Creston keeper could not handle and Grismore put it in the net, only to have the goal denied on a much disputed call. Regulation time ended with the scored tied 2-2 forcing "sudden victory" overtime. Two 10-minute overtime periods could not break the deadlock, so the game went to a penalty kick shoot-out in which five players from each team take a penalty kick from 12 yards out against the opposing keeper.
Chariton goal keeper Bayley Morris made a save on the first Creston shot and Grismore stepped up and drilled a shot into the upper left corner to give Chariton a 1-0 lead in overtime. Both Creston and Chariton missed their next three attempts with Morris making another nice save. Creston's final shooter tied the score with a hard shot into the upper netting. It all came down to Chariton's final shooter, junior defender Jayme Pierschbacher, who calmly stepped to the penalty spot and sent a low ball past the outstretched hand of the Creston keeper giving Chariton a dramatic 4-2 come from behind overtime win.
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