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<\/a>WILMINGTON ISLAND, Ga. \u2014<\/p>\nSchool may be out for the summer, but the work is not done for St. Andrew\u2019s boys soccer.<\/p>\n
The Lions are preparing for the GIAA Class 3A Boys Soccer State Championship after punching their ticket to the title match following a dramatic double-overtime semifinal win over Brookwood High School.<\/p>\n
The victory also carried a measure of redemption after St. Andrew\u2019s fell to Brookwood in last season\u2019s Final Four.<\/p>\n
Senior goalkeeper Morris Lane said the team leaned on resilience to advance.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year we lost to them in the state semifinals at their place, and it kind of went a similar way,\u201d Lane said. \u201cWe scored first, they scored right after, and I got a little nervous. But the team played so well. We weren\u2019t tired like the other team. We kind of gritted it out, wanted it more, and got the last goal. That\u2019s all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to St. Andrew\u2019s, the Lions are making their first appearance in a boys soccer state championship match since 2010.<\/p>\n
Senior center back Charles Strain said excitement around the team is high entering the title game.<\/p>\n
\u201cMood\u2019s all high. Everyone\u2019s excited,\u201d Strain said. \u201cWe made it, and we\u2019re about to win it too.\u201d<\/p>\n
St. Andrew\u2019s enters the championship with a roster far more experienced than the one that reached the semifinals a season ago. After having just one senior last year, the Lions now lean on a veteran group to lead the way.<\/p>\n
Head coach Blake Seal, now in his seventh season and leading the deepest postseason run of his tenure, said the maturity of this year\u2019s senior class has been important.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe only had one senior last year, so again we were relying on that senior to lead everyone else,\u201d Seal said. \u201cThis year, they\u2019re very receptive. I talk to them in the classroom, when we\u2019re in school, and also in the locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n
Standing between St. Andrew\u2019s and a state title is Westminster Schools of Augusta as the Lions look to finish off a historic postseason run.<\/p>\n
Lane said reaching the final also means something special for Seal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means a lot,\u201d Lane said. \u201cEspecially, I feel like we had to do it for Coach Seal. He\u2019s never made it to the final, and I think he deserves it. So to be able to do it all year and finally get here, it means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
St. Andrew\u2019s will face Westminster Schools of Augusta in the GIAA Class 3A state championship Wednesday at 5 p.m. in Macon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Andrew\u2019s boys soccer eyes state title after semifinal revenge win St. Andrew\u2019s boys soccer is one win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[291348,291369,4,450,291349,291350,291351,291352,291374,291355,291356,291357,291353,291354,451,291370,291358,291359,291360,3,152771,25283,291372,291361,291362,291363,291364,291365,291371,291366,126922,452,453,291375,291373,291367,291368,273932],"class_list":["post-666959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-blake-seal","tag-boys-soccer","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-brookwood-soccer","tag-charles-strain","tag-class-3a-soccer","tag-coastal-empire-sports","tag-demand-menu-subscribe","tag-georgia-high-school-soccer","tag-georgia-prep-sports","tag-georgia-sports","tag-ghsa-class-3a","tag-ghsa-soccer","tag-headlines","tag-high-school-soccer","tag-lions-soccer","tag-macon-georgia","tag-morris-lane","tag-news","tag-nowcast","tag-page","tag-privacy-notice-term","tag-saint-andrews","tag-saint-andrews-lions","tag-saint-andrews-school","tag-savannah-high-school-sports","tag-savannah-sports","tag-soccer-state-championship","tag-st-andrews-soccer","tag-state-championship","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-use-nextfre","tag-weekday-news-watch","tag-westminster-schools-of-augusta","tag-wilmington-island","tag-wjcl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}