CLINTON — Warren Central got the resulted it wanted, even in a loss.

Clinton got two first-half goals and another within the first four minutes of the second, but Warren Central kept the Lady Arrows off the board the rest of the way to get the final 3-0 result Friday night.

That was good enough to clinch a Class 6A playoff berth for WC (11-8-2, 3-3 Division 3-6A). After beating Vicksburg 2-1 on Thursday night, Warren Central had four goals to spare Friday against the Lady Arrows (15-4-4, 6-0). A five-goal loss, coupled with Vicksburg’s win at Greenville-Weston, would have left Vicksburg and Warren Central tied by divison record, head-to-head goal differential and divisional differential. The final tiebreaker is a coin toss.

It didn’t come to that. Warren Central will instead head to DeSoto Central on Tuesday.

“We got the result we needed,” WC coach Trey Banks said. “Once we got 2-0 down, we just wanted to maintain the score. We were a lot more cohesive in the second half. They did not get that many quality chances in the second half.”

Down 3-0, Banks dropped back his top two forwards, Lindsey Barfield and Lindsey Burris, to play defense. Clinton had two more quality chances in the final 25 minutes, the first with 16:45 left.

The Lady Arrows’ Heather Miller took a corner kick and the ball was stopped in the middle of the box, but WC keeper Katie Humphries came up with the ball to stop the threat.

Four minutes later a foul on WC gave Clinton a free kick from the top of the box. Miller’s 30-yard shot hit the high post and the miss ended the sequence.

Clinton used its advantage and WC’s defensive shell to get 17 shots on goal to the Lady Vikes’ 1. Twelve of the shots came in the first half. “We knew we had to hold them, so we played pretty defensive,” Humphries said. “It was crazy back there at times.”

(B) Clinton 2, WC 1

Clinton (19-2-2) outshot the Vikings 30-3, but did not get the go-ahead goal until the 73rd minute when Jimmy Noonan scored.

The Vikings (14-4-3), who played without defenders Alberto Capeleto and Jade Pollock, will head to DeSoto Central on Tuesday night in a first round Class 6A playoff game. Capeleto is expected back for the playoffs.

Ahstin Greer gave the Vikings a 1-0 lead at the 20:18 mark in the first half. Clinton made it 1-1 when Zaac Crosby scored off a free kick by Doonan.

(G) Vicksburg 8,

Greenville-Weston 0

Mikayla Banks, Raven London and Raven Lawrence scored two goals apiece, and the Vicksburg Missy Gators rolled past Greenville-Weston in their season finale.

Carley East and Deserae Duncan each scored once apiece for VHS.

(B) Vicksburg 8,

Greenville-Weston 1

Garrett Watson scored three goals, Daniel Sluis had two, and B.J. Clark and Kyle Davidson netted one apiece as Vicksburg (5-13-3, 2-4 Division 3-6A) finished its season by beating Greenville.

(G) St. Andrew’s 1,

St. Aloysius 0

Elisabeth Gaillet scored in the 17th minute of the first half for St. Andrew’s, and it stood up as the game’s only goal in a win over St. Aloysius.

St. Al finished its season with a 13-7 record, but missed the playoffs for the first time since the 2008-09 season. The Lady Flashes had several quality scoring chances Friday night, but couldn’t capitalize.

“No playoffs, but still a great year,” St. Al coach Suzie Channell said. “We ended the season with a loss, but it was still positive. We played one of our best games of the season tonight.”

(B) St. Andrew’s 2,

St. Aloysius 0

Ben Henry and Mark McMullan each scored a goal in the first half as St. Andrew’s beat St. Al in the Flashes’ season finale.