Cape Coral’s Ronald Lind (4) tries to head the ball into the goal Wednesday night against Ida Baker in the District 4A-11 quarterfinals. More photos are available online at: cu.cape-coral-daily-breeze.com. Photo by Michael Pistella

The regulation 80 minutes was not enough to settle the difference between No. 2 seeded Cape Coral and No. 7 seeded Ida Baker Wednesday night.

Not even two 10-minute overtimes could determine which team would move on the the boys’ District 4A-11 soccer tournament at Cape’s Dave Warkentin Field. It took penalty kicks.

Junior Nathan Stone was the fifth and last hope of the Seahawks with the PKs tied at 3-3. Stone’s blast went off the hands of Baker keeper Rush Manterola and into the back of the net to lift the Seahawks to a 2-1 shootout victory.

“I felt a lot of pressure,” said Stone. “There was a lot on me to make the shot on a great keeper. I had decided to go left of the keeper, but at the last second I backed out and sent it down the middle, and he almost had it.”

Manterola, who had 13 saves through the 100 minutes of play, saved one PK in the shootout, the third shot by Juan Cano keeping the PK score at 2-2 at the time.

His counterpart, Cape’s Daniel Villamil, saved five shots before the penalty kick session. He saved two PKs, the first taken by Baker’s Oscar Trujillo and the fifth taken by George Kucera. The last save kept it 3-3 and set the stage for Stone’s game-winner.

“That second save was outstanding,” said Bulldogs coach Doug Palow. “He got a fingertip on it and glanced it off the post. A huge save.”

The win preserves the Seahawks’ unbeaten season (19-0-3) and sends them to the semifinal round at 5 p.m. Friday against Mariner, which beat South Fort Myers.

“I just tried to save those hard shots Baker was firing at me,” said Villamil. “I knew it would be a tough game from the start and just followed coach’s advice. I knew it wouldn’t be easy.”

The entire first half wasn’t easy, but uneventful with shots very even (9-9).

For awhile it seemed the second half would be a carbon copy until Baker (11-11-1) broke the scoreless tie at the 19-minute mark.

Senior Nick Presti set up for a throw-in even with the penalty box on the left sideline. His throw toward the middle cleared the crowd and found senior Daniel Sharkey stationed at the far post for the tap-in goal.

Until that point, both teams’ defensive play had been almost flawless. It really wasn’t a defensive breakdown that led to goal either.

For the final 21 minutes of regulation time, the Seahawks launched an all-out assault. Shot after shot, pass after pass deep in the scoring zone was cleared away or redirected by whichever Bulldogs defensive backs were in the game at the time – Kucera, Yuri Bykau, Kyle Morris, Mike Arenz, John Dunham, Jed Cicoria and Luis Madrid. And Manterola had six saves along the way.

The Seahawks played the last 30 minutes a man down after Kevin Lopera was issued a red card. Not long after that, the Seahawks tied the game 1-1 with 7:25 to go when Oscar Camacho headed in a free kick from the left wing.

The Seahawks had two throw-ins close to the box in the final two minutes. One was cleared out and the second was shot too high over the crossbar. Junior Caio Amaral chased down a long pass over the defense and tried to tap it past Manterola, who was charging to the free ball. Manterola deflected it and Amaral tumbled to the ground as the ball bounded harmlessly wide and left of the net, followed by the end of regulation time.

Both teams had at least two scoring chances in each of the overtime periods.

“Rush is an outstanding keeper who made a couple of point-blank saves,” said Seahawks coach Aldo Nardiello. “He did what a good keeper has to to to help his team. We know how gifted and talented Baker is, no question we were always under the gun.”