Walden Grove is on the map. Well, technically the school has been for four years, but winning a state title tends to make one's presence more authentic.

Top-seed Walden Grove's girls soccer team locked up the school's first-ever state title Friday night playing 110 minutes with Fountain Hills before taking a 5-4 shootout triumph in the Division III championship at Campo Verde High School.

"This is incredible," Walden Grove coach Carey Bauer said. "We've been underdogs all season. We ended up ranked No. 1 and I think everyone still doubted us. To play as long as this game lasted, and finish with a win is huge."

Walden Grove (25-1) and No. 3 Fountain Hills (19-3), the defending D-III champs, engaged in a feverishly-pace contest with a number of good chances on both sides in the 80 minutes of regulation, 20 minutes of overtime and 10 minutes of golden-goal time. Several of those chances were saved by the respective keepers -- Walden' Grove's Malia Vanisi and Fountain Hills' Charlotte Tornee. Vanisi racked up 14 saves and Tornee eight. Each team's top scorers had opportunities -- Fountain Hills Leah Carillo and Sierra Jarriel and Walden Groves' Bella Solorza and Rachel Carrell.

But as has been the case in many girls' matches this postseason it came down to penalty kicks. Vanisi stayed in goal for Walden Grove and Fountain Hills opted to use Jarriel, who is tall with a big reach.

"We worked on that this week because she is tall and has a large wing-span," Fountain Hills coach Alsion Mabery said.

Although neither team could score during regular play, the first eight players in then shootout converted their PKs for a 4-4 tie. Jarriel came up with her only save of the shootout on Walden Grove's fifth attempt, setting the stage for a possible win. Vanisi wasn't having it. She stopped Fountain Hills fifth attempt to keep iteven at 4.

Walden Grove's Molly Trave notched what proved to be the match winner to start the sixth round of kicks. Fountain HIlls chance to tie again  was wide left giving the newest school in Sahuarita its coveted first crown. Carrell, Solorza, Natalie Licht and Daelyn Mayer converted the other PKs for Walden Grove.

"We played in a shootouy earlier with Sahuaro and we had a couple players that took their kicks out of the rotation I wanted," Bauer said. "When the second five-minute overtime was going I jotted down the order I wanted if we went to PKs. I made sure we didn't deviate from it this time."

Fountain Hills, disappointed not to win a second straight title, still had a fine season.

"It was a fast-pace game," Mabery said. "Every ball throughout the game was contested. ..You've heard it before. No one wants to to end up going to PKs."

D-III BOYS

Top-seed Yuma Catholic beat Chandler High to the punch. The Shamrocks won the D-V football title back in November and added the futbol title on Friday night by edging defending champ Coronado, 1-0, at Campo Verde High.

Junior Fernando Negrete's header off a corner kick by Jorge Ruiz in the 69th minute was the only tally. Ruiz led Yuma Catholic in goals this season with 29 and added 25 assists, tied for best on the team. The championship was the fourth state title in boys soccer for Yuma Catholic, the other three coming in 2004, 2006 and 2007. Yuma Catholic finished the season 19-0-1. Coach Ralph Evans club had to go through the most recent D-III powers Cortez and Coronado, to come away state champions.

Coronado, the No. 6 seed playing in the title match for the fourth year in a row, came up runner-up for the third time in  very entertaining 1-0 match.

Chandler High, which won the D-I football title in November, takes on Sandra Day O'Connor on Saturday evening at 6:30 at Campr Verde for the D-I futbol championship.

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