Minnesota high school soccer team wins state championship with one-in-a-million overtime goal

In soccer, some goals are scored with meticulous passing, movement and communication. Others are a little more straightforward.

In the Class A state championship game in Minnesota on Friday, The Blake School’s Keegan James opted to emphatically go with the latter category. It’s hard to fault his boldness, as the Blake Bears had played all of regulation and an overtime period to a scoreless tie against Bemidji High School.

Let’s just say it worked out.

Thanks to an aggressive decision, an amazing kick and just some plain dumb luck if we’re being honest, the top-seeded Blake team won their first state championship in a decade, according to the school’s athletic department.

However, this wasn’t the only kickoff goal made in the high school soccer world this week. Playing with slightly lower stakes — the opening of the second half of a state semifinal game — Carter Holmes of Highlands High School in Kentucky scored a very similar goal on the kickoff to put the Bluebirds up 2-0 in an eventual 2-1 win.

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