MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – While wrapped up in an embrace with assistant coach Joel Bradford after McCallie’s 3-2 soccer win over Montgomery Bell Academy on Thursday, head coach Chris Cushenbery told him, “The curse is over!”
The Blue Tornado had to slay their own personal dragon to do it.
Montgomery Bell Academy scored the first and last goals of the Division II-AA title game, but McCallie scored three in between at the Richard Siegel Soccer Complex to earn the program’s first state championship since 1999.
McCallie ends the season 14-1-4, the loss coming to Oak Mountain, the Alabama Class 7A state champion.
“The fact that we’ve gone down three years in a row in my time to MBA, luckily we had players looking to battle the entire time,” McCallie senior midfielder Will McGregor said. “We believed we could do everything possible to win this game. This was our year.