CAPE ELIZABETH — The Cape Elizabeth and York High girls’ soccer teams took to the field Thursday night in a crucial Western Maine Conference game for Class B South playoff positioning.

York is the No. 3 team in the region; Cape is No. 4.

Instead all that was determined was that both teams are resilient and able to handle any situation as they played to a rain-soaked 1-1 tie at Hannaford Field.

“These kids have played enough soccer in inclement weather that when it started raining tonight, none of my kids ever even said a word,” said York Coach Wally Caldwell.

“These girls don’t worry about anything, they don’t use any extra energy, they’re just really focused and just want to play. Once the game starts they just flip a switch. Some teams might fold or the level of play might drop, but the consistency of our field play has been there. We just do the job that we practiced for.”

Added Cape Coach Craig Fannon: “It was a superb effort and obviously we wanted the win, but that was a tough team we played out there. We haven’t had much rain this season so we literally haven’t seen the field in it yet. We talked about getting the body behind the ball instead of just trying to use the legs to settle it so that if it slipped, at least they didn’t have a clean chance to get by us. The girls did a nice job with it today.”

The Capers (6-5-2) scored first with freshman Liv Cochran competing for a loose ball in the York box midway through the first half.

She sent a shot attempt toward the net, and it bounced off a Wildcat defender and into the net for her first career goal.

“She’s just got such a great engine,” said Fannon. “She’s just a freshman but she goes for days. She never stops. Whenever we see a chance to go win the ball, the girls have the freedom to go and try to do that. She saw her chance and took it, and got the reward of her first varsity goal.”

York (6-2-4) was able to tie it with 23:31 left when Payton Humphrey scored on a corner kick that went untouched finding the back of the net.

“She’s done that before,” said Caldwell.

“She has the green light out there. Anything from inside 40 (yards), she can score on, and has scored on from her freshman year up.

“But that’s why she plays the back positions and takes all the dead-ball kicks. Payton is a strong athlete and just has what seems to be some kind of sixth sense out there. Sometimes she might look like she’s out of control, but even when she’s like that she’ll hold possession and scare the heck out of the other team.”

Alison Ingalls turned away six shots for Cape Elizabeth, including two potential winners in overtime.

Anna Baker turned away seven shots for York.