Penalty Kick

Glenelg's boys soccer team passed what it considered a key test yesterday, dominating visiting Bel Air for a 7-0 victory.Bel Air, ranked No. 11 last week, trailed only 2-0 at halftime, but fell apart in the second half against a slick-passing Glenelg attack that has scored 28 goals in four games.The Gladiators' defense, led by goalie Russell Payne and sweeper Keever Frye, has allowed just one goal all season."After we won our first two games against Thomas Johnson and Edgewood we still weren't sure how well we matched up with other county teams," Glenelg coach John Bouman said.

WALDORF -- Centennial coach Bill Stara said no one wanted to listen when he tried recently to push senior midfielder Morgan Kershner for the Maryland Association of Soccer Coaches' all-state team.Kershner made a believer out of Thomas Stone coach Tom Parker yesterday by scoring two goals and getting one assist, as the third-seeded Eagles beat the host Cougars of Charles County in the state Class 3A semifinal, 3-0.Top-ranked Centennial (13-1-1), two-time defending Class 3A champion, now advances to next Saturday's 5 p.m. state final at Old Mill against Whitman, which defeated Franklin, 2-0."

A pair of county soccer teams captured regional championships and advanced to the state tournament with some clutch individual performances Saturday.North Carroll's Ashlee Douglas scored two first-half goals, and goalie Jenny Heindel led the defense, as the Panthers recorded their fourth consecutive shutout, 2-0, over Towson to claim the Class 1A/2A Region II girls crown.Chad Norfolk scored on a penalty kick with 11 minutes remaining in the match, lifting Liberty past North Carroll, 2-1, to win the boysClass 2A Region I title.

Brian Peterson's second goal of the game, on a penalty kick with 9 minutes, 50 seconds to play, lifted fourth-ranked Severna Park over host and No. 6 Broadneck, 2-1, in a key Anne Arundel County 4A League game last night.The penalty was called when Broadneck's Mark Patrick, a junior defender from Harrogate, England, committed an inadvertent hand-ball when Peterson's direct kick struck him in the face.Peterson drilled his penalty shot past Bruins (0-1, 1-1) keeper Sean Tettemer and into the lower, left corner.

For visiting Hereford, getting outshot, 29-10, didn't matter. Nor did coming within several eyelashes of giving up a half-dozen goals.That No. 8 Towson outplayed the unranked Bulls in most aspects of yesterday's Baltimore County 1A-2A League game was of little importance to Hereford coach John Mackert or his players.They scored a 2-0 upset win over the previously unbeaten Generals in a game Mackert said his team had waited for all season.John Wingeart scored off a throw-in by Matt Saunders, and Paul Diangelo put in a penalty kick for the Bulls.

All season, the Fallston boys soccer team found ways to win, having little trouble scoring and proving comfortable in the close games with positive results. In yesterday's Class 3A state championship game against upstart Tuscarora from Frederick County, the No. 4 Cougars didn't play any differently but left UMBC Stadium unfulfilled after the Titans captured their first state title in the program's fifth year on penalty kicks. After 100 minutes of soccer ended with the teams tied at 1, it was the young Titans who showed a little more poise in taking a 2-1 victory after a 4-2 decision on penalty kicks.

McDonogh soccer coach Steve Nichols knew his team would have problems with an unranked Curley team that had vanquished three ranked teams. But despite being pleased that his visiting fourth-ranked Eagles escaped with yesterday's 2-1 double-overtime win on Kyle McHugh's goal with 1:56 left, Nichols was conciliatory to the host Friars. "Curley is a well-coached team," Nichols said of the Friars (3-7-2, 3-6-2 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference). "They deserved a better result than they got."

Mamadou Kansaye McDonogh, soccer The center-midfielder was the dominant player in the No. 1 Eagles' 6-1 win over Mount St. Joseph in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship game Nov. 10, scoring two goals and adding two assists. Kansaye, a junior in his third year on the varsity, set up Connor Rockefeller for the game's first goal and then scored the game-winner when he sent a free kick from 20 yards through a six-man wall for a pivotal goal with five minutes left in the first half.

JOHANNESBURG — One was the hope of its continent. The other was an afterthought on its. One was in the World Cup quarterfinals just four years after first qualifying. The other hadn't been that far in 40 years. So when Ghana met Uruguay on Friday, it wasn't about settling scores or renewing rivalries. It was about two teams trying to keep their fairy-tale runs from ending. And wouldn't you know it? With neither team wanting to go home, they played 30 minutes of extra time tied at 1-1 before Uruguay extended its improbable stay on penalty kicks, sending it on to a semifinal Tuesday against the Netherlands.

Sophomore Ryan Kutchey scored the game-winning goal for Lutheran midway through the second half as the Saints recorded a 2-1, come-from-behind victory over St. John's-Prospect Hall in the first round of the MIAA C Conference playoffs yesterday. Lutheran (8-5-1) trailed in the first half, but rallied to tie it at 1 on Alex Heil's goal. The win was Lutheran's second over the Vikings (6-8) this season. The Saints advanced to the quarterfinals, where they will face Glenelg Country School on Tuesday.