The Wilson girls soccer team has gone through a roller coaster of emotions in the past week.
A week after nearly being eliminated in the first round of the District 3 Class 4A playoffs, the Bulldogs are heading to the championship game.
Macy McDonough scored with 7:20 left Tuesday night to lift third-seeded Wilson to a 2-1 win over No. 7 seed Ephrata.
McDonough headed in a pass from Keira Levengood to advance the Bulldogs (22-1-1) to their first District 3 championship game since 2013.
“I think I might have stolen Keira’s goal,” McDonough said. “I wanted to make sure it was going to go in. You never know.”
The Bulldogs didn’t know if they would make it out of the first round when they trailed at home in the final minute of regulation against Cedar Crest a week earlier. But Wilson scored in the final minute of that game to force overtime and is headed to Hersheypark Stadium Saturday at 7:30 p.m. to try to win its first District 3 title since 2006.
Wilson will face Central Dauphin, a 2-0 winner over Carlisle.
Levengood scored the first goal on a scramble in front of the net to get Wilson out to a 1-0 lead. Ephrata tied it later in the first half on a goal by Kiersten Doutt.
The teams battled back and forth in the second half until Wilson made one strong run at the Ephrata goal. Mounts goalie Sophia Gonzalez stopped the initial shot and Levengood sent the rebound toward the other side of the goal. Nearly in the goal, McDonough got her head on the ball to make sure it would go in.
“I was a forward, I would have done the same thing,” said Wilson coach Tim Fick. “You’ve got to make sure it gets in.”
Levengood, one of seven seniors in the starting lineup, was the one who saved the Bulldogs’ season a week earlier when she headed in the tying goal off a carom from the crossbar in the final minute of what became a 3-2 overtime victory.
“She was in some good goal-scoring positions to make something happen,” Fick said. “If Liz (Estrada) or Nat (Vicari) aren’t able to find each other and get a goal, then someone else has to.”
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