Mounds Park Academy was peaking at the right time entering the state boys soccer tournament.
Scoring just 21 goals in its 15 regular-season games, the Panthers scored 11 times in winning three straight section games, including Masen Donohoo’s overtime winner in a victory over St. Croix Prep in the final.
However, the good vibes came to an end Wednesday in a 2-1 double-overtime loss to No. 2 Stewartville in a Class 1A quarterfinal at Farmington High School.
Cole Kropp scored with 5:03 remaining in the second overtime, sending the Tigers (20-0-0) to a semifinal match at 7 p.m. Tuesday in U.S. Bank Stadium. They’ll play the winner of Thursday’s quarterfinal between No. 3 St. Cloud Cathedral and unseeded Cristo Rey Jesuit.
Wiktor Sroka nearly won it for the unseeded Panthers in (7-8-4) the