Kent Girls on Runner-Up Team for Ohio North State Cup Championship

Kent's Keely Leising and Katie Quinn nearly helped their teammates on Everest Soccer Club win the Ohio North State Cup Championship recently.

But the team fell to 2-0 in a hard-fought match to AFC, the Midwest's top ranked girls team.

It proved to be a rare loss for the team, which has and even matches .

Chuck Quinn shared this recap of the game from Thursday night:

An even game after 50 minutes, AFC finally broke through on a goal from Sarah Krause (Parma). Everest, then pushing players forward, looked for the equalizer.  

The tactic nearly resulted in a goal, but resulted in a breakaway goal by AFC in the final 90 seconds, again netted by Krause.  

Just before AFC's second goal, Kent's Keeley Leising nearly evened the contest by lifting a cross to the head of another Kent girl, Katie Quinn.  Quinn struck the ball well, but just could not get it past AFC's keeper, Lauren DeMarchi of Hudson, who made a brilliant diving save.