Sean Suber took an extra second and bounced the ball a couple of extra times before he stepped up to the stripe to face Hartford goalkeeper Antony Siaha.

All that was at stake was a postseason victory, the Riverhounds SC season and a spot in the USL Championship Eastern Conference semifinals.

“I wasn’t really too nervous, just clearing my head and getting ready for the moment and put it in the bottom-right corner,” Suber said. “I was just waiting for him to get back on his line. I don’t want to go through my routine and then he starts backing up and I have to restart my routine.”

Suber took an extra second after he set the ball at the 12-yard marker, looked over the net and watched Siaha bounce up and down on the balls of his feet along the goal line. He’d taken this shot 1,000 times in

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