Boys soccer falls in semis
After experiencing heartbreaking losses in the regional tournament the past two years, the Lady Colonels’ soccer team was finally able to break through to claim the 2nd Region championship for the first time since 2023.
Both the 2024 and 2025 seasons ended with losses in penalty shootouts, but it would be Henderson who would prevail when it made all five of its penalty kicks to complete a shorthanded, comeback win over University Heights on Thursday night at Colonel Field.
“It’s super surreal,” senior Olivia Joyce said. “We obviously were down quite a bit in the first 20 minutes or so and that set in pretty fast. You get in your head thinking about all the possibilities. Being able to make all five PKs was really, really good for us.”…