That may be all these two schools share.

Warsaw Community High School is a 5A school with 1,900 students that prides itself in turning out quality athletic programs and views itself as one of the premier high schools in the state. Culver Community High School is a 1A school with 300 students that experiences limited success in athletics.

None of this mattered when the schools' girls soccer teams clashed in Wednesday's Oregon-Davis Sectional.

Warsaw coach Brent Wildman expressed relief earlier in the week about Warsaw no longer running into state-ranked Homestead, the team that beat the Tigers in the last four Columbia City Sectional championship games.

Instead, little school Culver shocked big school Warsaw not in the sectional championship but in the second round of the Oregon-Davis Sectional. Culver beat Warsaw 2-1. Culver improves to 10-6-1, while Warsaw's season ends at 10-3-4. Culver meets 12-4-1 Argos in Saturday's 4:30 p.m. championship game. Argos advanced by beating Plymouth (12-3-3) 3-0.

The IHSAA moved Warsaw from the Columbia City Sectional to the Oregon-Davis Sectional after last season.

Despite the number of wins for each team, people who watched the game considered it an upset, based on school size and Warsaw's 3-0 win over Culver during the regular season.

Press box attendants called it an upset.

The coaches agreed.

"Yes, it is," Culver coach Greg Combs said when asked the upset question.

"When we played Warsaw before, they had their way with us."

Warsaw coach Brent Wildman offered a more blunt assessment that extended beyond this year.

"Culver has never given us a game," he said.

Until Wednesday at Argos High School, site of the Oregon-Davis Sectional.

While the idea of no more Homestead relieved Wildman, he also expressed concern about Warsaw's path to the sectional championship almost seeming too easy: beat Culver Community in the bye game to advance to Saturday's sectional finals.

What seemed like a trap game for Warsaw turned out to be a trap game.

The size of the trap grew for Warsaw when sophomore starting forward Claire Beckett hyperextended her knee during pregame warmups by banging her knee against another Warsaw player in an offense-defense drill. She missed the first period then returned and played 10 minutes in the second period.

"Claire is our fastest attacker," Wildman said. "She gives us speed down the side and gets the ball across the middle."

Culver took a 1-0 lead at the 32:19 mark when Warsaw's Katy Ellis unintentionally deflected the ball into Warsaw's goal. Because Culver's Mary Lee was closest to the ball, she was given credit for the score.

Upstart Culver kept the pressure on in the second period, scoring five minutes after the break. Stacy Stevens drove the ball past Warsaw goalkeeper Liz Wiggins, who came out front, on a jailbreak. Megan Girton assisted Stevens to make it 2-0 at the 45:40 mark.

Warsaw's Kim Kurosky scored the Tigers' lone goal at the 54:20 mark to make it the eventual final of 2-1.

"This is the best I have ever seen Culver play," Wildman said. "Ever."

Combs made adjustments from the first game. He left swepper/stopper Nichele McCune and a couple of others who he felt had "good ball skills" back on defense near the goal, sacrificing their offense.

"I thought we could play with Warsaw if we played better defense than the first time," Combs said.

Culver took it to Warsaw in the first half, controlling the field. Warsaw became the aggressor in the second half but only after Culver led 2-0.

Warsaw had a few shots at the goal in the opening minutes of the game and could not convert.

"If we would have scored in the first 10 minutes," Wildman said, "the game would have been over. (Warsaw) kept expecting it to happen, and it never did. The circumstances of the game kept giving Culver the momentum, and our players didn't change that."

Warsaw finished the game with eight shots on goal to Culver's seven, while Culver had five corner kicks to Warsaw's one.

Afterward, Wildman sounded like a coach who watched his team fall prey to a trap game.

"They were looking forward to the Plymouth (or Argos) challenge (in the finals)," Wildman said of his players. "When we lost Claire Beckett, they completely lost their focus.

"When we were at Columbia City, Columbia City always gave us a tough game. If we would have played any other team besides Culver ... they haven't been through the experience of getting themselves up for a game."

Wildman was referring to his youthful team. He can take solace that only one starter - Kris Kurosky - was a senior, and Warsaw's junior varsity team went 16-0 and outscored opponents 57-3 this season.

But that's the future. Giving the choice of taking solace or winning the game, coaches choose winning the game every time.

On this given night, Culver had Warsaw's number.

"You have to look at it from that aspect," Combs said, "that they're a big school and we're a small school, and we beat them."

OREGON-DAVIS SECTIONAL

Culver Community 2, Warsaw 1

Goals

First half

C - Mary Lee, 1-0 C, 32:19

Second half

C - Stacy Stevens (Megan Girton assist), 2-0 C, 45:40

W - Kim Kurosky, 2-1 C, 54:20

Total shots - Warsaw 11, Culver 8

Shots on goal - Warsaw 8, Culver 7

Corner kicks - Culver 5, Warsaw 1

Records - Culver 10-6-1, Warsaw 10-3-4 [[In-content Ad]]