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Members of the Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy girls soccer team celebrate after beating the Sugar-Salem Diggers to capture the program's fifth-straight state 3A championship on Saturday at The Fields in Post Falls.
October 25, 2020
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Hines, who scored game-winning goal as a freshman, scores game-winner as a senior as Coeur d'Alene Charter wins fifth straight state title
"We would have preferred to put a few more in the back of the net," fifth-year Coeur d'Alene Charter coach Stacy Smith said. "But we had to be creative and had to be persistent, and it paid off. It took us a little bit longer than we would have liked, but it paid off."