Mahtomedi defeated Holy Angels 2-0 Friday for the Class 2A girls state soccer title game played at U.S. Bank Stadium.
Senior midfielder Cecilia Emery scored in the 25th minute to put Mahtomedi on the board first. Her fourth goal this season marked just the seventh goal conceded by Holy Angels.
It also kicked off a successful revenge tour for Mahtomedi’s 11 seniors. They lost to Holy Angels in the 2022 Class 2A title game and lost in the 2023 Class 2A, Section 4 title game to Totino-Grace.
“Last year definitely was a reset for us,” one player said Wednesday. Another said the team doesn’t “want another ending like last year.”
Senior midfielder Aynslea Ulschmid gave the Zephyrs a 2-0 lead with her goal in the 65th minute. Ulschmid’s eighth goal of the season had opposing emotional effects.
Holy Angels coach Dave Marshak was half joking, half concerned when he said Mahtomedi might have the biggest girls soccer team he had ever seen. The focus of Marshak’s concerns was junior goalkeeper Harlow Berger, a 6-foot-3 kicker for the Zephyrs football team.
Mahtomedi’s last goal allowed was Oct. 5 at East Ridge, a Class 3A state tournament semifinalist. Since then, the Zephyrs rolled up six consecutive shutouts.
