Two senior soccer players — St. Thomas Academy defender Devin Kennedy and Northfield goalkeeper Cristian Fuentes-Rivera — stood 12 yards apart in the second overtime of Thursday’s championship with a potential game-winning penalty shot at stake and so much on their minds.

Kennedy ultimately fired the ball low to the left. Fuentes-Rivera dived not quite far enough in pursuit. The goal gave the No. 3 seed Cadets (18-4) a 1-0 victory and the program’s first Class 1A state soccer title.

The Cadets’ Logan Davis drew the decisive penalty kick by getting fouled inside the 18-yard box. Before their showdown on the U.S. Bank Stadium turf, both Kennedy and Fuentes-Rivera spent time in their own heads.

“Amanuel [Bird] came up to me right before and said, ‘Are you sure you got it? Do you want me to take this?’ ” Kennedy said. “I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll take it. I’ve done it in practice. Let’s do it.’ ”

Fuentes-Rivera, on the winning side of penalty kick shootouts in two previous playoff games, also felt certain.

“I’m good at PKs; I’m the best goalie in the state,” said Fuentes-Rivera, so confident that he actually made Kennedy doubt himself a bit.

“Grabbing the ball, I was confident until I made eye contact with the goalie,” Kennedy said. “He was kind of staring me down, making me a little nervous, making me second guess where I was going to kick.

“In the end, I just stuck to what I did best and went lower left,” said Kennedy, whose team’s made “Be Brave” its mantra this season.

Fuentes-Rivera, whose fifth-seeded Raiders finished with a 16-4-3 record, showed similar courage in defeat.

“I hesitated at the last second,’’ he said, “and it went in.”

St. Thomas Academy defeated Northfield 1-0 in the second overtime of the Class 1A boys’ soccer state championship game played Thursday at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Devin Kennedy drilled home a penalty kick with 6:55 left in the second 10-minute extra session for the victory. The Cadets were awarded the kick after Logan Davis got hauled down inside the 18-yard box.

No. 3 seed St. Thomas Academy (18-4) won its first state title. The Cadets took second in 1999. No. 5 seed Northfield (16-4-3) took second in state for a fourth time.

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