What do you get out of two 40-minute halves, two 10-minute overtime periods and five penalty kicks?

For the Maclay girls soccer team, a trip to the Region 1-2A championship game.

On one of the coldest and windiest nights of the year, the Marauders (17-4-2) exhausted all options, but finally edged out Rocky Bayou 5-4 in a sudden-death shootout.

"I cannot tell you how many heroes there are tonight," Maclay coach Paul Dickson said.

Maclay had to make do without sweeper Lindsey Sanders, who was not cleared to play due to injury. Amanda Hunter filled in for Sanders.

The Knights (11-9-3) got on the board first in the 15th minute of the second half on a Jamie Williams goal. But the Marauders answered back with a goal by seventh-grader Reanna Leoni.

The score remained the same even after two 10-minute overtime periods, calling for a dramatic penalty kick shootout.

Jenna Peck and Madeline Loeb translated Maclay's first two penalty kicks into goals.

"I never played a game in overtime so just to go there was pretty freaky," Loeb said.

After saving Rocky Bayou's first attempt, Maclay goalkeeper Callie Corbin-Langford couldn't keep the next two from hitting the net. But after Emily Steele's kick got past her, Corbin-Langford went out and scored on her own penalty kick. She was so excited she almost forgot to go back to the goal to defend the next kick.

"I got confused," Corbin-Langford said. 'I went and sat down. I was so excited."

Corbin-Langford's excitement would be short-lived when Knights freshman Jane Ellen Brown scored on the very next attempt. It didn't help that Maclay's next attempt was denied.

But Rocky Bayou sophomore Esther Aldredge's kick was no good, leaving it all up to Hunter, who easily found the top of the net and was immediately mobbed by the entire team.

The Marauders play St. Johns Country Day School in the regional championship game on Friday