WATERVILLE — Of the three goals Kyle Kenny scored on Wednesday afternoon, it was the final one that meant the most.

Kenny scored on a breakaway early in overtime to lift the Ellsworth boys soccer team to a 4-3 victory over Waterville in a Class B North quarterfinal at Bill Alfond Field at Colby College.

“I wasn’t ready for my soccer career to be done yet,” said Kenny, a senior. “It was amazing.”

Kal Laslie added a goal for the No. 5 Eagles (12-3-0), who will meet the winner of No. 1 John Bapst/No. 8 Presque Isle in the semifinals on Saturday. Cormac Wilcox, Garrett Gendreau and Gabe Cedeno each tallied goals for the No. 4 Purple Panthers (13-2-0).

Mere minutes into overtime, Kenny received a long pass, managed to break away from a Waterville defender, and kick the ball past diving goalie Dustin Bearce and into the left corner of the net for the game-winning goal.

“I saw (Laslie) get the ball, then he passed it to Haven (Controneo),” Kenny said. “Haven looked up, made a (pass), I was wide open and I put it away.”

“Both teams were tired, (overtime) comes down to digging deep, who wants (the win),” Ellsworth head coach Mark Ensworth said. “It just comes down to who is going to make the special play.”

Ellsworth set the tone early, notching its first goal three minutes into the game when Kenny sent a screaming shot past Bearce and into the left corner of the net for a 1-0 lead. The Eagles jumped out to a 3-1 lead by halftime with another goal from Kenny and one from Laslie, who placed a shot perfectly into the top-left corner with 3:35 to play before halftime.

Waterville, which had only trailed on two other occasions during the regular season, flipped possession on Ellsworth in the second half. With just under 19 minutes left, Gendreau — from open space 10 yards from the goal — knocked a shot past Eagles goalkeeper Cooper Mitchell to cut the score to 3-2.

Waterville’s Cedeno, positioned right in front of the net, took a cross and fought through a scrum, and bumped the ball past Mitchell and into the net to tie the score 3-3 with 8:51 left in regulation.

“I couldn’t be more proud of the team,” Waterville head coach Dylan Dillaway said. “They fought back from a 3-1 deficit, that doesn’t happen often. They won the second half.”

“Having watched Waterville a lot, we knew how talented they are, we knew it was going to be a dogfight to the end,” Ensworth said. “They can score goals quick.”

It was the final match for 11 Waterville seniors, a group who led the team to 12 straight wins to close the regular season after a 4-2 loss to Mount View on Sept. 10.

“We’ve got lots of seniors, and they were the heart of the team,” Dillaway said. “We worked from Day 1 for the team to gel as a unit.”