However, St. Clairsville could not complete their odyssey on Saturday, falling 4-0 to Beaver Local and ending tournament play as OVAC runners-up.

“They got talented kids that scored on us obviously,” St. Clairsville head coach Wes Stoner said. “I mean, we played pretty well. First 10 or 15 minutes I thought we did excellent. We missed a lot of chances, unfortunately, with a couple breakaways. That could have made it at least a little bit closer. But, just some breakdowns on defense. It happens. We had breakdowns and they capitalized on most of them.”

Beaver Local’s Jansen Ours found a shot in-close through a dense crowd in the 19th minutes to break open the day’s scoring.

Peyton Dunn put through another goal for the Beavers in the 26th minute to send St. C. into the locker room down 2-0.

A very well-placed through ball by Leah Stewart allowed Dunn to get off another clean shot in the 47th minute for a Beaver goal, and Dunn made it a hat trick with a long-range snipe which snuck just under the crossbar in the 57th minute.

St. Clairsville, who have been without multiple starters for the whole season or parts of the season, went into the game at less than full-strength, but Stoner was happy with the fight his team has shown this season.

“We’ve played great so far,” Stoner “I mean, especially the last couple games without those three [Kendall Sall, Ashlynn Lednik and Ava Borkoski], they played well. They did well today too, we were just on the wrong side of several really good shots and a couple breakdowns defensively.”

Keeper Kiya Kyer had an even 10 saves for the Red Devils.

St. Clairsville was looking for back-to-back OVAC Championships after defeating Weir in the 4A title game last year, but will have to settle for second this time around. The Red Devils get back into the regular season swing on Monday at John Glenn.