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High school boys soccer regionals: St. Francis heads to state for 1st time in 23 years
LIMA, Ohio — St. Francis de Sales soccer continued its magical season on Sunday with a 3-0 victory over Kings Mills Kings in a Division II regional final to clinch its first trip to state since 2003 at Lima Shawnee High School. It was the 17th shutout of the season put up by the Knights, who improved to 17-0-4 on the year with the win. Heitor Derlann had two of the St. Francis goals while Cayden Gordy banged in the other. Derlann made it 1-0 just three minutes into the game. That margin held until the 35:08 mark in the first half, when Gordy extended the lead to 2-0 which would be the halftime margin. Derlann’s second of the game with 13:39 remaining put it out of reach. St. Francis is set to take on Avon at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Clyde High School in a state semifinal. DIVISION IV WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN 2, LIBERTY-BENTON 1 MARION, Ohio — Liberty-Benton let a first-half lead slip away in its loss to Worthington Christian. The Warriors secured the game-winning goal with 1:14 to play as Nolan Schoonover redirected a corner kick into the net. Trevor Gebhardt scored the Liberty-Benton goal with help of