Both Chargers soccer teams defeat Horn Lake

Published 9:28 am Friday, January 17, 2025

By Bruce Newman

Oxford girls won 7-0 in a mercy rule match while it took Oxford boys extra time to defeat Horn Lake 3-1 in high school soccer at Oxford Middle School on Thursday.

Caroline Love got the Chargers on the board first followed by a goal by Jane Irwin to make the score 2-0. Madison Strum added a goal from 18 yards on an indirect kick to make it 3-0 after the Horn Lake goalkeeper was whistled for punting the ball outside the box.

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Conley Clark made it 4-0 before Irwin and Strum each added their second goals to make it 6-0 at halftime.

Oxford’s final goal was the result of a Horn Lake own goal.

In the boys match Horn Lake scored first on a penalty kick before Oxford tied it later in the first half on a Carson McCready screamer from about 40 yards out.

A scoreless second half sent the match into extra time. In the first 10-minute period the Chargers’ Jerry Dudley was fouled in the box and Asiel Rodriguez converted the penalty kick to give Oxford its first lead. Colton Webb added a goal to make it 3-1 at the end of the first extra time period, where the score would remain.