Bishop England girls soccer team to play for state championship – The Daniel Island News

PROVIDED BY BEHS – The 2025-26 BE girls' soccer team will play in the Class AAAA State Championship game Friday, May 22.
Linda Brady knows all about the agony of defeat. 
She was on the sidelines last May as an assistant coach of the Bishop England girls’ soccer team and watched as the Bishops failed to convert numerous chances in last year’s Class AAAA State Championship against A.C. Flora High School.  
She also saw the Falcons convert one of their few chances into a goal on a header off a corner kick in the 58th minute of the intense match.  
That was the difference as A.C. Flora prevailed for a 1-0 victory and was crowned state champs. 
Brady, who is now the Bishops’ head coach, is confident she and her squad will experience the thrill of victory when the Bishops and Falcons clash in the Class AAAA State Championship, which will be contested May 22 at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina. 
“We expect a hard game from a tough opponent,” Brady said. “The girls were heartbroken after last year’s match. They know we should have won.” 
The Bishops enter the match with momentum and an eight-game winning streak. The Bishops have outscored foes 97-14 on the season and have been impressive in the 2026 postseason. 
The Bishops opened the playoffs with a 13-0 victory over Crestwood High and followed that up with a 7-0 drubbing of Gilbert. The Bishops won a close encounter, 2-1, against Bluffton in a Lower State semifinal and punched their ticket to the State Championship with a 2-1 overtime victory over Gray Collegiate Academy in West Columbia. The Bishops outshot the War Eagles 27-6 but could only net two goals. 
The victory gave the Bishops revenge for a 4-2 loss to the War Eagles in mid-April. It also ended the War Eagles’ 21-game winning streak. 
PLAYOFF ROUNDUP 
While the Bishop girls found success in West Columbia against Gray Collegiate, the Bishop boys did not, as the War Eagles ended the Bishops’ bid for a second straight state championship. 
The War Eagles and Bishops were locked in a 0-0 game that was decided by penalty kicks. They converted four while Bishop England managed only one. 
The loss snapped the Bishops’ six-game winning streak and gave the Bishops a 15-6 record. Gray Collegiate Academy improved to 22-7-1 and will play Southside in the Class AAAA State Championship. 
Meanwhile, both of the Philip Simmons teams’ bids for state championships came up short in the Class AA Lower State playoffs. 
The Iron Horse boys, the No. 2 seed in the Lower State, dropped a 2-0, two-overtime decision to top-seed Academic Magnet. The Raptors will play Buford in the state title match this weekend. 
The Iron Horse boys finished with a 22-3 record. 
The Iron Horse girls concluded their season with a 6-3 setback to Atlantic Collegiate. The Iron Horses finished with a 14-10 record. 
 
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