Sophomore Maxwell Marquette’s role on the Andover boys’ soccer team is to give his fleet senior teammates an occasional breather.

He took their breath away Thursday, completing a 2-on-1 breakaway to score the game-winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Minneapolis Southwest in a Class 2A boys’ state quarterfinal at Chisago Lakes.

It was Marquette’s first varsity goal.

“It wasn’t much for me,” he said. “All I had to do was pass it in the net. It was really Emmanuel [Ekunseitan]. He had a nice run and fed me a perfect pass.

“I wasn’t really thinking. I was just running as fast as I could. When it went in, I was incredibly happy.”

Marquette’s inaugural goal ousted the tournament’s top seed.

But Andover senior Andrew Bird, who scored the Huskies’ first goal on a breakaway, said his team wasn’t thinking of itself as underdogs.

“We’d already knocked off the top seed in Blaine going into the sectional tournament,” said Bird, whom Marquette replaced for a few minutes. “We never had a doubt in ourselves that we can play with any team in the state, and I think now we’ve proved that we could.”

As for Marquette, who turned his five minutes of playing time into the memory of a lifetime, Bird said: “That was huge for us as a program and for him as a player. That’s probably the biggest thing he’ll ever remember.”