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Girls Soccer Booted From Playoffs in Penalty Kicks
Wayland tied Tuesday's quarterfinal game at 1-1 in the second half before Wilmington earned a penalty kick victory to advance to the North Division 2 semifinal.
The Wayland girls soccer team notched one overtime upset in the North Division 2 bracket. It took penalty kicks, but Wilmington made sure the Warriors couldn't make it two.
The sixth-seeded Wildcats took a 1-0 lead just before halftime and held onto that edge until midway through the second half.
But the upstart Warriors, the tournament's No. 14 seed, tied the game on a Wilmington own goal in the second frame. After 20 minutes of sudden death overtime with no winner decided, the teams went into penalty kicks.
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Maddy Jones and Morgan Fletcher each connected on their penalty kicks to give Wilmington a 2-1 edge, but Wildcat goalie Kim Woods stuffed the other three tries, including a final Wayland attempt to tie it.
The loss came one round after the Warriors stunned third-seeded Danvers in ocertime. The team's season comes to an end with a record of 9-7-1 while Wilmington advanced to face Hamilton-Wenham on Friday in the bracket semifinal.
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