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Title run terminated in overtime thriller
As Southern Cayuga took the field in the first overtime against IAC rival Marathon in the Section IV, Class C soccer championship on Saturday, Chiefs senior Jon Hughes didn't have time to think about how worn out he and his teammates were. He could only think about scoring his third goal of the game and keeping his team's dream season alive.
Hughes, who has scored in all four sectional playoff games, led his team back from a 2-0 first-half deficit by scoring one goal in each half, including the game-tying score at 17:00 on a free kick. That didn't matter in overtime, though, just like it didn't matter that the No. 5-seeded Chiefs upset the No. 1 seed earlier in the week to reach the finals. All that mattered was scoring just one more goal.
That goal never came for Hughes or the Chiefs.
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