Oak Lawn’s Rene Prado was put on the spot twice late in Monday’s game, being called upon to take penalty kicks with the game on the line.

But it was no sweat for the sophomore midfielder. After all, Prado knows all about pressure kicks now. He’s kicking for the football team for the first time this season — and doing so on varsity.

“Kicking for football, that’s more nerve-wracking than this,” Prado said. “Man, that pressure of kicking in front of all the people at those games and then having guys come at me while I’m kicking, that was something else.

“That makes this seem easy.”

Prado stayed cool and composed, scoring on both penalty kicks to help host Oak Lawn rally for a 2-1 win over Chicago Christian.

Majed Saadeh added an assist, drawing the first penalty for the Spartans (5-1-

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