Worcester Academy senior goalkeeper Alex Wood makes the game-winning PK stop. (Mike Gridley/New England Soccer Journal)
Editor's note: This story appears in our Winter 2019 magazine. You can subscribe to the print edition, or digital, here.
WINDSOR, Conn. – Finals, whether it’s on a stage as bright as the Champions League or as intimate as prep school soccer, are often decided by individual moments. And in recent years, Worcester Academy had to learn that the hard way.
Their NEPSAC Class A dreams had been crushed by Berkshire three years running, including in the 2016 and 2018 finals. But this fall, on a blustery day at Loomis Chaffee, Worcester Academy finally engineered its magical moment.
