St. Laurence’s Juan Hernandez collected the ball around midfield, made a defender miss and saw nothing but green turf ahead of him as the clock ticked inside the final minute of overtime.

That left the senior forward with 45 yards of dribbling and plenty of time to think about his golden opportunity to send the Vikings to state. Pressure? It was no sweat for Hernandez.

“I thought, ‘I got this,’” he said. “I was like, ‘This is my own show. I’ve got to do what I’ve got to do.’ I just put the ball in the net.

“I do have a little swagger. My coach always says that the games come down to the little moments and you just have to take it. You have to have some swag with it. That’s what I did.”

Hernandez delivered with what he called “the biggest goal of my life” Monday night, finishing on th

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