LAUREL — Severn Run girls soccer players embraced each other on the sideline, on the field. They ran to their fans when the Class 4A state semifinal ended.

But the tears that wracked them afterward weren’t happy ones. Not with Bethesda Chevy-Chase celebrating a 2-0 victory several feet away.

Emotion struck sophomore Shayna Tobin, the hero of the state quarterfinal, too. As she returned to the bench after the postgame handshake, she donned a small smile. We got it next year, she told her fellow underclassmen.

“Everyone did it together. They’re emotional because of how hard they worked,” Wolves coach Theon Francis said.

One of the final two Anne Arundel teams still competing for a title on Saturday night has only existed for two seasons. The Wolves set a modest goal of winning the Class

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