HOLLAND — For the 12th time this season, Perrysburg’s defense put up a clean sheet as the girls soccer team shut out Toledo St. Ursula, 1-0, to win a Division I district girls soccer championship Thursday at Springfield High School.

Perrysburg, ranked fifth in the state coaches’ poll, says unbeaten at 19-0-1 while the Arrows bow out at 12-6-2.

Like the Yellow Jackets have done throughout the season, freshman Tori Trzcinski played in goal the first half and senior Elizabeth Motter was in net the second half.

During some shutouts this season, the pair had to handle only a few goal kicks, punts, and on a couple occasions, the Yellow Jackets back line did not even allow a shot.

In the win over the Arrows, they were busy. Trzcinski had two saves in the first half, three goal kicks, punted five times and dealt with a corner kick. In the second half, Motter had four saves, three goal kicks, three punts, and a CK.

You would think with one being a senior and the other a freshman, there might be some issues. Not in this case.

“I love her,” Motter said. “This is the part I really miss about it — having that person to warm up with. It helps me go harder, I help her go harder, and I love having her there.

“It’s an upperclassman and lowerclassman, and that is fine. I take her to practice, take her home — we have a really good relationship.”

Motter said St. Ursula’s offense brought their A-game, trying to go direct the first half and score on possession the second half.

“Their offense, I was kind of shocked, they had some girls who can kick it. I honestly was kind of scared, but we did it,” Motter said.

Credit for the shutout also goes to Perrysburg’s back line, says coach Jorge Diaz.

“This is a tribute to all of them,” Diaz said. “We have great goalies but it took our defense to shut them down.”

Meanwhile, Motter saw her offense, which had an 18-9 shot advantage, including 16-6 in shots on net, get the only goal of the game, but there were multiple shots bouncing off crossbars, posts, and quality saves by St. Ursula junior keeper Sara Olson.

“We pulled it through. We did well,” Motter said. “We had our chances. We put one of them in and we could have had more. Our goal scorers really hustled.”

It took a goal by sophomore midfielder Camille Francis, assisted by sophomore forward Emma Ogdahl, to get Perrysburg on the board for the game’s only score just two minutes and 49 seconds after the opening kickoff.

“I like the fact that we played a very good game, quick, we scored right away and that set the tempo for us to do a little bit of other stuff, like play defense,” Diaz said.

Ogdahl took a through ball, dribbled down the left side, and sent a cross right to Francis, who one-timed a 15-yard shot past Olson.

“I knew this was a big game and obviously there won’t be a ton of chances because they are a very competitive team and they are very good,” Ogdahl said.

“So when the ball got sent through to me I knew I had to make something out of it because it was such a great ball — it was amazing.

“I had to play it into Camille because I know Camille finishes anything that is put next to her. I knew something had to happen on that play because it was such a beautiful opportunity.”

After that, Perrysburg’s strikers were not having success getting past the Arrows’ back line. St. Ursula coach Scott Reed, who saw his team lose to the Jackets, 4-1, during the regular season, had his team prepared.

“It’s just discipline, discipline, discipline and being patient, not playing outside of ourselves, limiting options for the other team to play,” Reed said.

“I knew whoever we put in there they were going to be good and they were going to be ready. We had a game plan. Make it simple, you know. Create, don’t give them any chances and commit to the ones they do have.”

Diaz knew the Arrows had a talented defense.

“All those kids, (junior) CeCe (James), were amazing and their outside backs did a very good job,” Diaz said. “We tried to throw everything at them and they stopped us.”

However, the Jackets were prepared, too.

“That back line was amazing tonight. It was a real struggle for any of us to get by it,” Ogdahl said. “Obviously we practice, we play against some of the best defenders.

“We play against (senior) Ashlyn Haeft, (sophomore) Kinsley Jones, (freshman) Kendyl Mefferd, (junior) Kendollyn Sadowski, (junior) Amaya Peterson — we play against all the great defenders.

“I mean, they are all great and it really just helps to practice against those great players because we are so deep in our back line.”

Trailing by one goal the final 76-minutes plus of the game, St. Ursula pressed more and more to get the game-tying goal, and even had a substantial wind at their back the second half.

“With the big wind, that was kind of what we were hoping,” Reed said. “We just didn’t quite get the bounce that we needed. We had one late in the first half that we thought was going to get in there and it just snuck outside.”

St. Ursula plays an independent schedule because their league, the Detroit Catholic High School League, like all Michigan schools, plays girls soccer in the spring. So, Reed was proud that his unranked Arrows were able to hang with one of Ohio’s best.

“I’m proud of their work rate, their effort,” Reed said. “The big thing we’ve been talking about is family. It’s a big family, they are so tight with each other.

“Our five seniors are blood, sweat and tears for the past four years, so it’s their team. I’m the captain just driving the boat. They’re taking everything in one direction and I’m incredibly proud. Just a silly game sometimes. You play really well and it doesn’t go your way.”

Perrysburg advances to take on Toledo Notre Dame (12-6-1) in a 7 p.m. regional semifinal next Tuesday at Springfield. The Eagles defeated Anthony Wayne (12-6-2), 2-1, Thursday to advance.

“We played them at the very beginning of the season and we have a lot of film,” Diaz said. “They have great kids and we only won 1-0.

“They have tremendous defense. At this level, it’s going to be a nail biter over time, penalty kicks, we don’t know, but we’ll be prepared for any scenario.”