Colonie, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Championship week has arrived in the Section 2 boys soccer playoffs, and two Class AA semifinal matchups at Colonie High School on Monday set the stage for next weekend\u2019s title game.<\/p>\n
In the first Class AA semifinal, Burnt Hills knocked off reigning sectional champion Columbia, 4-1, to advance to the championship.<\/p>\n
Burnt Hills struck early while already leading 1-0, earning a penalty about 10 minutes in. Senior Dylan Geren converted to make it 2-0. Columbia pulled within a goal before halftime, but Burnt Hills answered late in the first half on a corner kick when Columbia couldn\u2019t clear the ball from the box and Maxum Nafus headed home a goal to send the Spartans into the break up 3-1.<\/p>\n
Burnt Hills extended the lead in the second half, led by two goals from Colby North, to close out the 4-1 win and eliminate the reigning champs.<\/p>\n
In the night\u2019s second semifinal at Colonie, top-seeded and nationally ranked Bethlehem faced Niskayuna with a championship berth on the line. Bethlehem beat Niskayuna 9-0 in the regular season, but the semifinal was scoreless through regulation and two overtime periods.<\/p>\n
The match went to penalty kicks, where it remained tied through five rounds before moving to sudden death. Bethlehem\u2019s Kaleb Murray scored to put the Eagles ahead 6-5, and goalkeeper Parker Mooney then made a save on Niskayuna freshman Sam Gaspari to end it.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem advanced to the championship after winning the penalty kick shootout, 6-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colonie, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Championship week has arrived in the Section 2 boys soccer playoffs, and two Class…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-315047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}