Article: DIFFERENT RULES IN SOCCER PLAYOFFS UPSET SOME.(Rocky Preps)

Byline: Scott Stocker & Shane Fitzgerald Rocky Mountain News Staff Writers

To our knowledge, high school soccer is the only sport in the state played by rules in the playoffs different from those in effect during the regular season.

Case in point: During the regular season, overtimes are played in two five-minute periods, with the winner the first team to score. Call it sudden victory or sudden death, it makes no difference.

But in the state playoffs, they play two 10-minute periods and it doesn't matter which team scores first or how many goals are scored. The full 20 minutes is played. If the teams are tied, they go to a shootout.

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