They got knocked down. And, just as in the song, they got back up again.

The Skyline Spartans beat Woodinville 2-0 Saturday night in a rough and tumble 4A state soccer championship in Lakewood.

Sophomore Madi Barney was injured and was walked off the field by coaches less than six minutes into the game. Junior Kayla Shim also was forced from the game with injuries in the second half; both she and Barney returned to the field. Senior Mindy Nation sustained several tackles, but remained in the game. Woodinville players were issued two yellow cards and committed several other penalties.

Physical nature of the game aside, the Skyline girls kept up a theme they’ve had going all season: No one scores on the Spartans.

“We really preach that defense wins championships, and tonight that was evident,” coach Don Braman said after the game. “They are great champions. … It’s really rewarding. The girls work so hard for each other.”

Skyline has given up just one goal since September.

Although Skyline had three shots on goal and several scoring opportunities — drawing excited cheers followed closely by groans from the crowd — the team didn’t score its first goal until the 36th minute. Junior Shea O’Donnell moved the ball to the side of the field, then rocketed it back to sophomore Alisha Connors, who drilled it in for the score.

The play in the game mimicked a drill called “crossroads” that the team had been running through in their warm-up.

“Shea (O’Donnell) saw me and did a perfect pass to me and I slotted it in there,” said Connors, describing her fourth goal of the season. “It felt really good to get a goal in the championship.”

Braman said O’Donnell and Connors “really delivered” on that play.

Skyline’s second goal came 17 minutes into the second half, when junior Coral Anderson received the ball from senior Kiara Williams with her back to the net. Anderson spun and slammed the ball into the side netting.

“I was just happy to get another one up and take luck out of the game,” Anderson said.

Braman said Anderson had great composure when she knocked that shot into the net.

“The way we scored goals tonight was different from the way we scored last night and the night before that,” Braman said. The previous night, Skyline won a semifinal game against Mead High School 1-0. “Each night, the girls find a little something extra to contribute.”

In what was perhaps Woodinville’s closest shot of the game, the Falcons launched a corner kick to a player on the field, who booted it off one of the corner posts of Skyline’s goal.

This was the third game this season that matched the Spartans against the Falcons. Skyline tied Woodinville 1-1 in regular season play, then beat them 2-1 in the KingCo 4A championship. Asked about this win, Anderson said, “It just proved that the first game when we won wasn’t a fluke.”

Braman said that he and the team did have high expectations this season, but that the accomplishment took a lot of hard work.

“The girls buckled down. They just got it done,” he said. “I think they’ve made a good statement about soccer at Skyline and in the Sammamish community.”