Salado Lady Eagles found themselves in a rare position in their bi-district match against the Alvarado Indians, trailing at the half. But the girls turned it around in the second half to score four points for the 4-1 win to advance to the Area round of the 4A soccer playoffs.

Shelby Hollywood had her deflection on a corner kick into the Alvarado goal called back on an offsides call 11 minutes into the match.

The Alvarado goalkeeper made a diving save to defend against Hollywood’s penalty kick in the 19th minute of the match.

Salado goalkeeper Fran Blancaflor made a save on a penalty kick by Alvarado to keep the game scoreless in the 29th minute of the match.

Alvarado took advantage of a direct free kick to get their only goal of the night in the 31st minute of the match.
Salado tied the game at 25:28 in the second half on a header by Haley Piatak with the assist coming from Lexi Rice.

Less than a minute later, Rice put the ball in the net on an assist by Shelby Hollywood to put Salado up with 24:41 left to play to go up 2-1.

The score remained close until the final nine minutes of the game.

Jillian Taylor scored on a rebound off of the crossbar by Hollywood on a corner kick with 7:20 left to play to go up 3-1.

A half minute later, Rice gave an assist to Piatak for the goal with 7:50 left to play for the final score of 4-1.

Salado Lady Eagles will face Decatur in the Area round of the playoffs at 5:30 p.m. Tues. March 28 at Kennedale ISD Stadium.