GIRLS SOCCER: Charloe puts finishing touch on Oologah rout of McLoud
OOLOGAH — With the outcome already decided and only seconds remaining, most players would have been content to let the clock expire. Allie Charloe wasn’t settling for less. After intercepting a pass inside the box in the final moments Friday night, the Oologah junior forward blasted a right-footed shot over the goalkeeper from 10 yards out with just eight seconds left, putting an emphatic exclamation point on the Lady Mustangs’ dominant 5-0 victory over McLoud in the Class 3A state quarterfinals.
The late strike was Charloe’s second goal of the night in a match that saw Oologah overwhelm McLoud [8-5] from start to finish. “They were mouthing the whole time — ‘You’re only up 2, you’re only up 2,’” Charloe said. “I think that just really made us want to score and got us all mad.
” The Lady Mustangs outshot the Lady Redskins 37-2, had an additional 2 goals wiped away by offsides and forced McLoud’s goalkeeper into 14 saves while advancing to the state semifinals for the third-consecutive season. Oologah [15-1] accomplished all of that without one of its most important players. Star midfielder Brynlee Sweet was unavailable after receiving a red card in the first-round victory over Locust Grove.
Sweet normally handles the Lady Mustangs’ corner kicks, forcing coach Sam Bowers to adjust Friday night. “We run set pieces on corners,” Bowers said. “We just try to mix it up.
I think that's the old football coach in me — you run plays. We spend a lot of time on them, and I've always done that. We have shoe, we have knee, we have waist, we have head and we just make the signal, and then they run them.
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