“We are the champions my friends.” The Queen classic is music to the ears of the Wendell Trojans boys soccer team after winning the 4A state championship over the weekend.
There’s no trojan horse here, just a bus filled with state champions as the Wendell Trojans boys soccer team returned to Wendell around 3:45 p.m. Sunday afternoon after the long bus ride from Post Falls.
Three of our area teams were looking to take home first place at the state soccer tournaments today and one of those was in 5A, as the Wood River boys were looking to repeat as state champs.
With the Wood River boys and Buhl girls losses earlier in the day, it all came down to the Wendell Trojans boys soccer team to bring a state championship back to the Magic Valley and District IV, and they would do just that with a 1-0 win over Coeur d’Alene Charter.
After a surprising, and thrilling run through the state soccer playoffs the last week or so, the Buhl Indians girls soccer team took on Sugar-Salem in the 4A state championship game on Saturday.
Nine of our area soccer teams are heading to their respective state tournaments this weekend, find out who and when your favorite team is playing here.
The fifth-seed in 4A girls soccer, the Bliss Bears, traveled to Wendell to take on the fourth-seeded Trojans in the opening round of the 4A girls district soccer tournament and thanks to two goals from the boot of Morgan Notman, the Bears claimed a 3-1 upset win and ended Wendell’s season for the second straight year.
An exciting soccer game between some of the top teams in the 4A High Desert Conference on Monday as the Buhl Indians girls team (8-3-2, 7-2-2) hosted the Kimberly Bulldogs (9-4-0, 8-3-0).
The Wood River Wolverines boys soccer team entered Saturday with only one loss, their opponents, the Century Diamondbacks, entered the game undefeated, and in a battle of two 4A soccer heavyweights Wood River prevailed 5-3.
The Wendell Trojans boys soccer team defeated Filer 5-1 in a road contest, while the Buhl Indians girls soccer team took down the Bliss Bears in shutout fashion, 4-0.
Senior captain Santiago ‘Santi’ Perez scored the lone goal in the first half off a corner kick by senior Isaias ‘Yaya’ Hernandez to give the Bulldogs the win.
Sophomore Ethan Huerta scored a hat-trick for the Wildcats, while senior Teagan Easterday and sophomore Mmunga Elengwa scored two each. Freshman Josia Ortiz and sophomore Aydyn Burns also added a goal each.
For Conrad, she was a standout player for the Riverhawks (12-7-2) in the fall, helping lead Canyon Ridge as Great Basin Conference runners-up, and a state tournament appearance.
Minico High School’s athletic programs have a long history of success, and one man by the name of Greer Copeland has given countless hours of his time back to the school, and as such he is being rewarded by having the school’s athletic complex named after him.
Goalkeepers Abigail Haymore of the Lady Bobcats has signed on to play collegiate soccer at Central Wyoming College, while Neftali Arellano of the boys’ team will play at Centralia College in Washington.
CSI is getting a fantastic player in Nieves, who led the state in both goals (38) and points (82) his senior season, all while helping lead his team to a conference championship.
Saturday marked the final day of the 2023 Idaho State soccer season and Middleton High School was the site of the 3A and 4A boys and girls championship matches.
