By Toriano L. Porter – toriano.porter@examiner.net
The Examiner
Posted Apr 17, 2010 @ 12:48 AM
Last update Apr 17, 2010 @ 12:58 AM

Blue Springs, MO —

Forgive Blue Springs’ Chelsea Tilbury if she couldn’t quite explain exactly what happened on the last of her three goals against rival Blue Springs South.

With a spanking new gold trophy on the line in the first Cancer Battler Cup to benefit the Jennifer Ireland Foundation, Tilbury somehow managed to fight off a Jaguar defender and goalkeeper Kirstie Warren as they converged on Tilbury and the ball in front of the Jaguars’ goal and scored the game winning goal less than three minutes into overtime.

The goal – it will remain a mystery if it was a kick, a deflection or a header – gave the visiting Wildcats an improbable 3-2 win Friday over crosstown and Suburban Big Seven conference rival Blue Springs South in a soon-to-be annual game dedicated to Jennifer Bles Ireland, a 1997 graduate of Blue Springs who died of cancer.