Summit’s Eleanor Rylant, from left, steals the ball from Caldera’s Shaelyn McCarl, as Summit’s Sterling Lundy looks on during a girls soccer game at Caldera High School in Bend Wednesday evening.

Soon, there will be an Intermountain Conference championship trophy in the mostly empty trophy case at Caldera High School. And before long there will be banners hanging in the gym to remember its conference-winning teams.

For now, there is only one team to reach the heights of IMC champion in the three-year school history. And it all came together on a frigid Wednesday night at Caldera.

Bend’s newest high school won its first ever league title when the Wolfpack girls soccer team rallied with two goals in the final 15 minutes to beat Summit 2-1 on the final day of the regular season.

“Setting a legacy here is so cool,” said senior forward Sienna McCarl. “It is incredible.”

“We worked really hard for this,” said senior defender Hadley Williams. “And it shows.”

For the second consecutive season the Storm and the Wolfpack — having tied in their first meeting this season — met on the turf field at Caldera to determine the IMC title. Summit got the better of Caldera last year, putting an end to the Wolfpack’s unbeaten season.

The Wolfpack did not forget having their conference title hopes dashed on their home turf.

“We learned from last year what to do this year,” McCarl said. “We took that into account.”

Wednesday night’s match offered two ways for Caldera (11-1-3 overall, 9-0-1 IMC) to claim the title.

A win or a tie against Summit (7-5-2 overall, 7-2-1 IMC) was all that was needed thanks to Mountain View handing the Storm a loss earlier in the season. A win for the Storm would give them back-to-back IMC titles.

The Wolfpack were not looking to back into a conference title. They wanted the program’s first-ever victory over Summit.

“We wanted to win,” said Caldera coach Gavin Meyers. “We came out here to win today.”

But from the onset Summit appeared destined to play spoiler, with multiple threatening attacks in Caldera’s half of the field.

On multiple occasions, the Storm got past the Wolfpack back line and had only junior goalkeeper Reese Bradbury to beat. But each time Bradbury stonewalled the scoring chances.

“She has been huge for us,” Meyers said. “She comes up with big saves when we need them. We try to not make her have them, but when we need her, she steps up.”

After 40 minutes of scoreless soccer in the first half, the worst of the three scenarios began to take shape for Caldera when Summit senior defender Reagan Dealy scored off an assist from freshman forward Coco Skovborg within the first two minutes of the second half.

Dealy’s goal was the first goal scored between the two teams in more than 120 minutes of action over the two matches.

“(The goal) gave us motivation,” McCarl said. “It was time to turn it on.”

Twenty minutes later, in the 65th minute, the Wolfpack finally broke through with a goal off a corner kick.

Sophomore Shaelyn McCarl whipped the ball into the crowded box and found Williams in the mass of players.

Williams, known as a pesky defender, got her head on the ball and into the back of the net to even the match 1-1. Williams has scored a total of three goals the past two seasons, and two of them happen to be game-tying goals against Summit.

“That is something I have been working on all season,” Williams said. “Sienna and I are ones that like to put our face on the ball, as (Meyers) likes to call it. So they like to look to us in those situations.”

All the Wolfpack needed to do was hold on for the next 15 minutes to earn a tie and claim the IMC title. But settling for a tie is not in Caldera’s DNA.

“We were looking to put two in the back of the net,” Williams said. “Our team is not the team that looks to tie. It is not in our mindset.”

As snow began to fall and minutes began to tick away, McCarl put the exclamation point on the thrilling match when she flipped the ball over a charging Caroline Tom and watched it find its way into the goal for a 2-1 Wolfpack lead with three minutes left.

“I couldn’t really see anything and I’ve run a lot so I’m really tired,” McCarl said. “I got a foot on it and I was lucky that it went in with a little chip.”

With a league title under its belt and its only loss on Aug. 29 at Wilsonville, Caldera — along with Summit and Mountain View, who also qualified for the postseason — will await its playoff fate. The OSAA rankings will freeze Saturday night and the 16-team 5A state playoff bracket will be released shortly thereafter. First-round games are slated for Tuesday.

“We are pumped,” Williams said. “We are driven and ready to go.”