It wasn't even close.

After Federal Way had to go into a shootout to beat Todd Beamer in the South Puget Sound League boys soccer championship, the Eagles coasted to a 4-0 victory over the Titans in their rematch at the state quarterfinals Friday.

That sends Federal Way on to a 5 p.m. state semifinal at Lakewood's Harry Lang Stadium this coming Friday against Cascade, while the Titans' year is over.

The Eagles, who lost starting goalie Vinton Lane to a bone contusion in a knee cap in their previous game, had freshman Eddie Gomez take his place and earn a shutout.

"He did a good job," said Federal Way head coach Jason Baumgardt of Gomez. "What gained his confidence was the shutout."

Lane, a sophomore, may be back Friday, but three Eagle players won't be.

Carter Brossard, Lalo Moralles and Christian Munoz all received red card ejections in a fight that broke out against Beamer in the final minute. Brennen Hall was ejected for Beamer.

Moralles scored two of the Eagles' goals against the Titans, but Baumgardt is still confident his team can compete in the "final four" this weekend.

"We need to just continue moving the ball around and attacking," Baumgardt said.

Freshman Kelyn Rowe jump started the Eagles' offense with 29:39 remaining in the first half of Friday's game.

"He beat him to the right post, hit it, and it went in," Baumgardt said.

Moralles took an Omar Cruz free kick and scored with 24:04 to go before halftime, with the shot going from the right side into the left corner of the net.

Moralles scored again with 14:27 showing on the clock, this time on a Rowe assist.

The fourth and what turned out to be final goal of the game came with only 1:44 left before halftime.

John Mono hit the left side of the net on a Brossard assist.

Federal Way 2, Evergreen 1

The Eagles earned their way into the state quarterfinals by defeating Evergreen of Vancouver in a shootout Tuesday, May 15. The score was tied, 1-1, at the end of regulation and through two overtime periods before Federal Way won the penalty kick shootout round, 5-4.

"It's fun with the pressure," said Murphy, who scored the winning shootout goal. "It was loads of pressure."

The pressure began as the two teams battled to a scoreless tie until late in the second half.

Federal Way finally broke the ice with 12:56 left to play, when freshman Kelyn Rowe took a bounding ball from Lalo Moralles and punched it into the right side of the net.

The Eagles dominated regulation time, 25-7, in shots on goal with many of the tries near misses. But Evergreen scored when it counted to forge the tie.

A foul was called against Federal Way to give the Plainsmen a penalty kick opportunity with four minutes to go. Rubi Beltran did the honors for Evergreen, drilling the ball into the left side of the net.

After the game went into overtime, both teams took three shots over the two five-minute periods. But none of them went in, bringing both teams' seasons down to a shootout.

The goalies became even more important as they are alone in the net for the non-shooting team. Federal Way lost its starting goalie, Vinton Lane, to an injury at the end of the first half. He was whisked away in a cart, leaving Eddie Gomez to play the position.

The Eagles' crowd shouted, "Eddie, Eddie" as he took the field, and they were still enthusiastic when he faced the Plainsmen in the shootout.

Cody Camp stepped up first for Evergreen and drilled the ball into the left side of the net, and the Eagles' Rowe answered for the Eagles. Ben Ohrt was next for Evergreen and he scored, then Federal Way's Derek Paulino hit the left side.

The tide turned on Evergreen's next attempt by Jacob Hellen, who launched the ball only to have it blocked by Gomez.

"I knew he was going to go left," said Gomez.

Carter Brossard then knocked the ball in for a 3-2 Federal Way lead.

Evergreen got a score out of Rafael Contreras, then the Eagles' Randal Ventura hit the upper left hand corner for a 4-3 lead. The Plainsmen tied it at 4-4 when Beltran also found the upper left hand vee with a shot, which brought everything down to Campbell's feet. He smashed the ball right over the diving goalie for the score and a 5-4 shootout win.

Beamer 1, Kamiak 0

The look on Todd Beamer striker Sean Davis' face said it all.

Davis' free kick shot with 16 minutes to go in the game became the game-winner in a 1-0 win over the Kamiak Knights of Mulkiteo in the first round of the 4A state playoffs at Sunset Chev Stadium Tuesday.

The South Puget Sound League's No. 2 seed, the Titans, improved to 11-1-4 while the Knights' season ended at 12-5-1. Kamiak came into the game No. 2 from the Wesco.

Davis' goal came on a free kick ran brilliantly by a dummy run from Brennen Hall, who ran over the ball and faked the goalie out. He leaned left and corner pocked it right.

"I didn't even see the ball go into the net, said Davis, the Titans' season leading scorer, who curled the ball around the wall and by the Kamiak keeper that dove the right way, but did not reach any fingertips on the great shot, lower right corner put and with accuracy and pace. "I turned around to celebrate. I knew it was in."

And, just like that, the Todd Beamer Titans have quietly erased what was a disappointing 3-2 shootout loss in the SPSL North versus South battle for the No.1 seed a week played before this Kamiak game. The Titans cannot feel anything but good now that they have continued to advance each of the last three seasons in the state tournament.

"We have gone a little farther every year," said Titans head coach, Adam Kulas.

The Titans went just far enough in this game to be victorious, it was a great game with non-stop shooting action and great saving from both keepers, but mostly it was the Titans' senior captain, TJ Young, putting on quite a show.

The shots on goal favored Kamiak, 13-11, for the game, but Davis' blast was the difference on that end and on the other end it was the gritty play of senior captain Brennen Hall, playing sweeper, heading out a lot of 50/50 balls and just making great passes forward and leading.

Young made two saves near the end of the game that were of the spectacular variety. With 10 minutesl left, a Kamiak striker dribbled by one Titan before having a look at the goal from the top of the 18-yard box. As he went to kick the ball, Young came flying out of goal and made the most amazing kind of save. Young's hands could not reach the fireball shot at him, but something else did knock the ball away from surely going by him into the net. Young's face.

"I came out of goal and the guy took the shot and I blocked it with my face," said Young. "Whatever it takes."

Whatever it takes.

These Titans look destined to get a lot farther than losing to Auburn, 2-0, in this round of 16 game last year at this time. And before that, they lost in districts preceding state after a very successful season, including winning the South Puget Sound League. Thomas Jefferson went on to be the talk of the town, though, including winning the state championship that 2005 season.

But now it's the Titans' time, perhaps.

Things look really good, with Young making not only that great save said above but also with only two minutes to go and Kamiak fighting for their playoff lives, a Kamiak player rifled the ball to the goal. Young was not in a great position.

"I thought the ball was going to go over me and came out and then I realized it was not," said Young. All everyone needs to know after that is how Young spectacularly went airborne to stop that shot sideways jumping and holding onto the net amazingly with one hand as he somehow, someway blocked that shot.

"I pinned the ball against the post, the crossbar," said Young. "Whatever it takes."

hearing a recurring theme from Young?

It's not just Young either.

"Hall was a workhorse out there," said Kulas.

He was. He ran all over the place, side to side in the back, being the last man back and heading out balls looking to be dangerously headed toward Kamiak strikers. But not only did Hall take the balls out of the air most of the time when it was anyone's ball, Hall's nose was bigger than usual after the game and he talked nasally.

But asking him what did that to him, all that one could know is that it was not one time that did it.

"The first time I went up for the ball and someone headed my nose with their head," said Hall. "The second time was when TJ pinned that ball on the post and I went up for it in that time and came down and a guy stepped on my face."

Kulas made a position change before the game. Hall, in the last two seasons of success, was the team's sweeper, but this season Kulas moved him up to play midfield. But for this game, Kulas moved Hall to the sweeper spot again.

As much as Hall was involved in this game, it was a great coaching move.

Hall was glad he could be back there, after being in the midfield during the season and scoring eight goals and having four assists, only behind Davis' 12 scores and 15 assists.

"I just want to help the team however I can," said Hall. "I want to be a leader and show leadership out there however I can."

Whatever it takes.

--Ed Shepherd wrote the Todd Beamer vs. Kamiak portion of this report.