The Barrington soccer team scored six straight penalty kicks after double-overtime to beat Cranston West 2-1 (6-5 in pks) during a Division 1 quarterfinals game at home on Thursday night. The Eagles move on to play North Kingstown in the semifinals at RIC on Thursday, 10/29, at 7:30 p.m.

“That was a rollercoaster,” said senior goalkeeper Zach Sheinberg. “It was nice to win in front of our home crowd. But we have a game next week. We have to play better.”

Eagles head coach Don Denham agreed.

“Today was not a good game for us,” he said. I know we can play better and we need to figure it out. I give credit to Cranston West. They were absolutely phenomenal.”

After a scoreless first half, Eagles senior midfielder Veer Rege blasted a kick by West goalkeeper Jack Payne during a Barrington corner kick for a 1-0 lead at the 36 minute mark.

“I was playing in the back of the box,” said Rege. “The ball popped out and hit me in the chest, fell to the ground and I kicked it hard toward the goal.”

Rege and his teammates celebrated with the fans in the stands as the stunned Falcons recouped.

Midway through the second half, Cranston West head coach Yair Correa was given a red card and thrown from the game by the referee for blatantly arguing an on field call that occurred in the Barrington goal box. A group of Falcons fans standing along the fence began screaming obscenities at the referee through the rest of the game.

Cranston West continued to pressure the Barrington defense and tied the score on a free kick by Falcons forward Luke Johnson with 16:33 to play. Johnson lofted a kick from the left sideline at the 25-yard mark, that  flew over the outstretched arms of Eagles sophomore keeper Cooper Robertson and into the right corner of the goal. The game ended tied 1-1 in regulation.

The Eagles couldn’t take advantage of several scoring opportunities in the two 5-minute overtime periods and the two teams determined the game by penalty kicks.

Penalty kicks

The Falcons went first as the two teams alternated penalty kicks. Cranston West scored five goals in a row against Eagles senior keeper Zach Sheinberg, who made several bigs saves and played a scoreless first half and two scoreless overtime periods.

Barrington senior midfielder Mason Wildeman placed a kick by Payne, the Falcons keeper, and Atharva Ananthakrish, Jack Lutrell, Kelly Hill, Oliver Cope all followed suit and score was once again tied 1-1, 5-5 in PKs.

Sheinberg, decided to switch up his tactic and dove to his right to make the save on a kick by Falcons senior Ryan D’Errico, who fell to the ground in a heap.

“I was trying to go off how their hips were turning, Sheinberg said. “It just wasn’t working, so I went full guess to the right and he kicked it right where I was.”

“I had trust in our guys making kicks. All of them went top corner.”

After the Cranston West miss, Eagles sophomore midfielder Fatih Abul lined up his kick and blasted it by Payne into the top left corner for the game winner.

“I was really stressed,” he said. “But my teammates really supported me. They said you got this Fatih, it doesn’t matter if you miss or score. With their support, I felt like I could do it. I saw the goalie diving to the left and I knew that I had to get the ball up and I did it. It felt perfect.”