Girls' Soccer: Tartans Can Paint the Town Plaid After Beating Hemet

They played a regulation championship match, then two overtimes, and then went through five penalty kicks—and still St. Margaret's and Hemet couldn't determine a champion.

But then goalkeeper Ellie Schwartz made a save, and Katie Donahue drilled the ball to the back of the net and St. Margaret's had won its second consecutive Southern Section Division 6 title.

A year after shutting out San Dimas, the Tartans scored a 6-5 victory in penalty kicks over top-seeded Hemet. The match, played Friday at Mission Viejo High, ended 1-1 in regulation.

McKenna Marmelstein gave St. Margaret's a 1-0 lead on a header off a corner kick from McCaully Patch in the early going.

Hemet answered before the first half was over as Rosie Robinson scored.

Neither team scored in the second half or two overtime periods. But they couldn't miss in penalty kicks as each team scored in the best-of-five format—until Schwartz blocked Hemet's Mackenzie Boyd.

Then Donahue stepped up and put St. Margaret's in the record book—again.