Newtown made its first SWC championship appearance since 2013 but will have to wait for its first title since 2004. Then Weston in PKs pushed us even further. We were so confident coming in and after beating the third seed in double overtime, it just pushed us. "We beat Barlow in the regular season, and all of these games were so close with these top teams. "We just knew we were better," Keane said. Goliath path to its first SWC title since 2019 may have come as a shock to the opponents it toppled, but it was hardly a surprise to those donning the red and white. As soon as he puts that kind of pressure, it opens up midfield for us and we can start finding some spaces." Sometimes we don't get the result we want with it, but he is always putting pressure on their backs and keeps them honest back there. "You see that every time we play the ball that he is on the end of it. "He is just a workhorse, he works his butt off," Mancini said. Keane was named the tournament MVP after he also scored the game-winning, double overtime goal against Barlow. "As a striker sometimes you have to be selfish, so I just took it across and laid it bottom right corner. "It came off a deflection and I heard people screaming, but I just ignored them," Keane said. 2 Brookfield, it was senior striker Nolan Keane who played the familiar hero with his team's lone goal early in the second half. While the championship game did not require double overtime like Pomperaug's first round win over No. Our stretch was a little shaky, but hopefully we are going to be ready to go for states too." Looking at the bracket was a little scary but, you know, we had some injuries mid-season so we were starting to get healthy. We lost to them 2-0 in the regular season, so it is a nice revenge game for us. "It is always an honor to play somebody like Newtown, they were number one all year.
"It is always nice to win an SWC, I think it may be sometimes harder than states because our conference is so tough," Pomperaug coach Joseph Mancini said. Top-seeded Newtown had only lost once all year, but Pomperaug rode the momentum of a double overtime victory in the quarterfinals and a semifinal win in penalties to a 1-0 win over Newtown, culminating a championship run that included beating the top three seeds.
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