Fairfield Warde Girls' Soccer Team Advances to Class LL Championship Game

The Fairfield Warde girls’ soccer team is heading to the Class LL state championship game after a thrilling 1-0 victory over Ridgefield in the final seconds of Tuesday night’s semifinals.

Sixth-seeded Warde (17-3-3) will play the winner of Wednesday night’s semifinal contest between top-seeded Glastonbury (17-1-0) and No. 4 Simsbury (14-1-3) in the Class LL final Saturday at a site and time to be determined.

Amanda Orvis, who was recently substituted into the game, scored the game-winning goal with only 21 seconds to go in regulation to send the Mustangs to their first title game since winning it all in 2007, according to GameTimeCT.com.

“It’s great,” Warde coach Tom Cunningham told Andy Hutchison of GameTimeCT. “It’s great to be back in the finals. That was by far one of the toughest games we played all year.”

Read the full story at GameTimeCT.com here.

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