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After beating rival Snider in the semifinals, Dwenger bounced back with a 4-0 win over Harrison (West Lafayette) in the title match of the Snider Semistate on Saturday at Hefner Fields.

Dwenger (19-3-1) advances to the state finals at noon Saturday at Kuntz Stadium in Indianapolis and will play No. 13 Evansville Central (20-3). Unranked Lake Central (15-5-2) and No. 6 Zionsville (16-3-2) play in the other semifinal. The championship is at 8 p.m.

"I am not surprised at all," Dwenger coach Jason Wisniewski said. "I have seen what they are capable of. I knew the girls had it in them, and it happened."

Out of Dwenger's top dozen players, only two are seniors and eight are either freshmen or sophomores. But Wisniewski said the team got battled-tested with a seven-penalty kick shootout with Carroll in the sectional championship, an overtime win over Homestead in the regional and a 2-1 win over Snider in the semistate's first round.

"We have had some tough games to get where we are at," he said. "This is the strongest team we have ever had. The best players, you can't say that, but we are a team."

"It is amazing," Underwood said of heading to the state finals. "We have come a long way over the season. (Varsity) takes some time to get used to. Once you get into the swing of things, it just rolls."

"It is hard to motivate them for a game like this; they are tired, mentally and physically," Wisniewski said. "The girls did their own motivating. Most of it is mental because it is such a long day and playing a tough game against Snider and then sitting around and waiting all day long, and it is on your mind. Then you get those two goals, and it is like ‘We did it.' But there is time left on the clock."

"I don't want to give everything we had to win this game and lose the next game; that would be disappointing," Forsythe said after the semifinal.

After Snider tied the score at 1 with about three minutes left in the first half, Dwenger got the game-winner on a Forsythe floater over Panthers goalkeeper Ashley Scatena about a minute later.

"I thought we did a great job of overcoming that and getting the goal back, but they just came back and hit us really hard again," Snider coach Tony Cardenas said. "(Dwenger) realized that is when we are the most vulnerable and capitalized on that."

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