Lions outlast Bucs in marathon final

CENTREVILLE — Taylor Napier may have felt like she had wandered onto the set of Braveheart.Napier had just scored when she turned and saw a pack of wide-eyed, screaming teammates charging across the field toward her at full throttle.“I’ve played with some of these girls for like 12 years,” Napier said. “So just to turn around and have them running towards me is a great feeling. And to have Bea in goal is a great feeling.”Bea Holthaus stopped two of the five penalty kicks she faced before Napier parked her PK into the right side of the net for the game-winner Tuesday night, lifting top-seeded Queen Anne’s County to a 2-1 victory over No. 2 seed Kent Island in penalty kicks for its second Class 2A East Region II girls soccer championship in three years.It appears the Lions (13-0-1) will be the top seed in the 2A state tournament and host No. 8 Bel Air (8-5-1) on Friday in a quarterfinal.“I thought we were the better team tonight,” Queen Anne’s head coach Mike Kern said. “We dominated.

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