The Soldotna girls pushed one of the state's top girls soccer teams and nearly won Friday in the state semifinals at Anchorage Football Stadium.

Unfortunately, the ending was not a happy one for the Stars, who lost 2-1 in overtime to South Anchorage, who is moving on to Saturday's state championship soccer game against Service.

"It's just so frustrating," said Soldotna coach Jimmy Love. "They did everything they could do, and it just wasn't enough."

Preserving a shutout in goal is a difficult thing to do as a soccer goalie.

Doing it at a state tournament against a team that has vengeance on its mind? That’s another level up.

Kenai Central sophomore Alli Steinbeck managed to do just that against Wasilla in Thursday’s opening game of the Alaska School Activities Association state soccer tournament at Eagle River High School.

The Kardinals topped the Warriors 2-0 to move on to Friday’s semifinals against Service at 1 p.m. at Anchorage Football Stadium.

The 3,200-meter race that Kenai Central’s Allie Ostrander ran on Friday at Dimond High was not unusual for the 5-foot-1 junior. In fact, it didn’t even break her personal best.

But one thing it did count for, finally, was a new Alaska state record for high school girls.

With a time of 10 minutes, 13.87 seconds, Ostrander broke a 28-year-old mark that everyone could see coming from two miles away (pun intended).

“To me it seems like any other race,” Ostrander said. “I guess it hasn’t really sunk in. I think it’ll hit me when I see it on paper.”

The final meet of the year is here. The 2014 Alaska School Activities Association state track and field meet.

This year’s state clash will feature the best tracksters, throwers and jumpers at Dimond High School in Anchorage. In all, 62 of those athletes hail from the Kenai Peninsula.

Here is how is all breaks down between schools: