The NCS boys soccer game at Sonoma Academy on Wednesday night took full regulation time, plus two overtime periods and 18 penalty kicks combined by each team before a winner was finally declared. The game featured all the drama of a World Series game 7, which happened to be played at the same exact time, except this match-up featured the visitors from the Athenian School in Danville and the Sonoma Academy Coyotes. In the first half neither team could find the back of the net, though ball possession was domindated by Athenain. In the second half of play it was the Coyotes who took advantage and had a few more quality chances at scoring, but they also could never break through for the winning goal, which meant at the end of 80 minutes of play the score was tied at 0. After regulation both teams played two overtime periods of ten minutes each, if either team had scored the match would have ended with that team claiming victory and moving on to the NCS Quarterfinals. With the night air getting colder and the players growing fatigued, neither team managed to have any real threat of scoring in the overtime periods, so it was on to penalty kicks. After the first five players from each team had an opportunity to take their penalty kick the score was still tied at 4-4. From there each team alternated kicks until one team scored and the other missed. This would take four more players from each team, but ultimately it was Athenian who took the one goal advantage and would be recognized as the winner. Though it is a loss in the record books for the Coyotes everyone was proud of the effort, energy, and perserverance the boys showed throughout the match. The loss marks the end of the SA boys soccer season, but everyone in the program should be proud of the progress they made and the accomplishments they achieved.