Story by Coach Grable
      Another beautiful night in Chillicothe at Jerry Litton Memorial Stadium where the Chillicothe Lady Hornets took on non-conference foe Mid-Buchanan Lady Dragons. The Lady Dragons came into the contest ranked 10th in the Missouri Class 1 rankings.
     The game would start out back and forth as both teams positioned themselves to try and mount attacks. Mid-Buchanan would have the better of play early as the Lady Hornet defense would hold strong and limit quality opportunities. Layla McKinnis worked the goal for the Lady Hornets and kept everything in front of her. The defense of Chillicothe consisting of Bynley Beemer, Anya Moore, Emerson Stefancik, Amyah McKinnis and Ashlynn Daugherty continued to stall any attack by the Lady Dragons. The Chillicothe attack would mount a few efforts late in the first half and create some quality chances, but couldn’t put anything in the net. The halftime score was knotted – 0-0. That would be the theme through the night.
      The second half was much like the first half – both squads making runs and attacking but not able to put anything between the pipes and the match was tied after regulation 0-0.
The first overtime, much like the first and second halves of regulation would remain at 0-0.
The second overtime, are you starting to get the theme, would remain 0-0 as both tired squads mounted solid efforts but couldn’t find the finishing touch. So the match remained tied 0-0 and we headed to penalty kicks.
     NFHS Rules indicate each team provide it’s first 5 shooters. Each team gets opportunities and the best of 5 will win the shootout. However, as you probably guessed, we were still tied after the first 5 shooters for each team were completed. Each squad was able to make 3 of the 5 shots and we headed to sudden death penalty kicks. Which means, each team has a shooter and it’s 1 to 1 at that point. If both make, we keep going. If both miss, we keep going. If one makes and one misses, we are over. The Lady Dragons went first and Layla McKinnis made the save. Anya Moore stepped up as the 6th shooter for Chillicothe and buried a shot in the right side of the net to win the match for the Lady Hornets 4-3 on penalties.