MOSCOW — In chilly weather and under a cloudy sky at the Moscow School District Community Playfields on Thursday, during Moscow’s senior night, the Bears and the Coeur d’Alene Vikings girls soccer teams played 80 minutes to finish with a 1-1 draw.

It was the second time this season that the 5A Bears (8-2-3) and 6A Vikings (6-4-4) had battled to a 1-1 tie on the pitch.

Moscow assistant coach Seth Vieux said that he felt good about the team’s performance, even though it ended in a tie, because they held the Vikings to few possessions.

“Really hard-fought match,” Vieux said. “We kind of got a bad break at the end, but (we) feel really good about how the team played; the effort was really strong. I think that we controlled the entirety of that match and didn’t quite put away enough of our own chances.

“And soccer is a game like that. They get very few chances, and they get one to go down for them.”

How the goals went down

Moscow put up a “one” on the scoreboard first.

The Bears’ goal came off a second-chance opportunity. Moscow shot a goal toward Coeur d’Alene goalkeeper Macy Walters, and she deflected it to keep it out of the net.

However, Bears forward Winnie Colvin was following closely. The ricocheted ball found her foot and she kicked it high and into the back of the net, narrowly missing Walters on her second attempt to save the ball.

Vieux complimented Walters multiple times for her efforts in keeping the ball out of the net for most of the first half. He said that Walters “probably kept a good three or four goals out of the net.”

Vieux credited Colvin’s goal to her discipline in following coaching.

“Winnie Colvin does what she’s coached to do, and that’s crash goal,” Vieux said. “She followed in and got a free one out, and she put it right where it needed to be; the keeper about recovered and made the second save. So really nice (and) tidy finish from Winnie on that one, but that’s a ‘player discipline’ goal.

“That’s a player doing what she’s coached to do, which was, ‘Hey, if I’m a striker, if I’m a winger, and the shot comes from somewhere else, I’m crashing goal.’ So she did that. And she was rewarded for it.”

Moscow proceeded to keep the lead for the next 52 minutes of game time.

Coeur d’Alene tied the match up with just 11 minutes left in the second half.

The Vikings’ Payton Brennan, a freshman midfielder, shot a lob toward the Moscow net. Moscow goalkeeper Bailie Brown jumped up to try to save the ball, then she tipped the ball and it fell backward into the net for a Vikings goal.

Moscow’s elite defense and control of the match

The Bears had control of the ball for the majority of the match, and most of that was spent on the Vikings’ side of the field.

Moscow managed 29 shots during the contest.