STOCKTON —— Sudden death might not sound like a good thing, unless you were a Lady Falcon soccer player on Saturday afternoon.
That’s when Forest Lake Christian (18-7-1) downed LeGrand (14-3-4) in a sudden-death shootout to win the Sac-Joaquin Section Division VI championship by a 5-4 score at Lincoln High School in Stockton.
FLC sophomore Lia Hegarty and senior Morghan Pomeroy proved to be the lethal combination for the Falcons, who earned their second section championship in three years.
Hegarty was called to make the sudden-death kick against LeGrand’s senior goalkeeper Elizabeth Lopez, which was a call Hegarty was not expecting.
“I was going to pee my pants,” Hegarty said of when she heard her name called by coach Trenton Mol.
Hegarty went high to the left corner and made the sudden death’s game-winning goal.
“I called her (Hegarty) because she can do what she did,” said Mol.