As usual with the girls, the best teams prevail. All four finals feature the No. 1 vs the No. 2 seed.

The boys are a little more mixed. Although all four top seeds made it and two of the No. 2s, there’s a No. 6 in there and a No. 14. As far as anyone remembers, that No. 14 (Somers) is the lowest seed ever in a title game.

Boys soccer will be at Arlington. Girls are at Yorktown. Here are the complete schedules.

Boys soccer
Finals, at Arlington HS
Class AA: No. 1 Arlington vs. No. 2 Horace Greeley, 2:30 p.m.
Class A: No. 14 Somers vs. No. 1 Byram Hills, 5 p.m.
Class B: No. 6 Rye Neck vs. No. 1 Edgemont, 2:30 p.m.
Class C: No. 2 Blind Brook vs. No. 1 North Salem, 7:30 p.m.

Girls soccer
Finals, at Yorktown HS
Class C: No. 1 Solomon Schechter vs. No. 2 North Salem, 10 a.m.
Class B: No. 2 Bronxville vs. No. 1 Briarcliff, noon
Class A: No. 2 Eastchester vs. No. 1 Rye, 2 p.m.
Class AA: No. 2 North Rockland vs. No. 1 John Jay-East Fishkill, 4 p.m.

Just got back from Purchase College, where No. 14 Somers stunned No. 7 Port Chester in PKs. The Tuskers will play No. 1 Byram Hills in the Class A sectional final.

I will post score updates here as they come in.

Blind Brook 2, Valhalla 0: In the Class C semifinal game at No. 2 Blind Brook, Matthew Christal and Jeffrey Babat both scored. Teammate Ryan Seguljic had eight saves. Matt Whitman had eight saves for the No. 3 Vikings. The Trojans will play No. 1 North Salem/No. 4 Solomon Schechter in the championship game at Arlington on Saturday at 7:30.

Arlington 2, Scarsdale 0: In the Class AA semifinal game at No. 1 Arlington, Daniel Kelly had six saves for No. 4 Scarsdale. Arlington will play at home against No. 2 Horace Greeley on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. for the championship.

North Salem 3, Solomon Schechter 0: In a Class C semifinal at North Salem, Matt Huntington, Jesse Levy, and Peter Swetz scored and Geoffrey Semmens made five saves for No. 1 North Salem. Robby Markowitz had six saves for No. 4 Schechter. The Tigers play No. 2 Blind Brook in Saturday’s 7:30 p.m. championship at Arlington.

Horace Greeley 4, John Jay-East Fishkill 1: In the Class AA semifinal game at No. 2 Horace Greeley, Stephen Reisert had two goals. Teammates Zach Fried and Drew Felsenthal also scored in the win over the No. 11 Patriots. The Quakers will play at No. 1 Arlington on Saturday for the championship at 2:30 p.m.

Rye Neck 2, Bronxville 0: In the Class B Semifinal game at No. 6 Rye Neck, Ivan Martinez and Mike Goncalves both scored. Teammate Dalton Mendez had 10 saves. Thomas Dawson had seven saves for the No. 7 Broncos. The Panthers will play No. 4 Albertus Magnus/No. 1 Edgemont in the championship at Arlington High School on  Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

Byram Hills 1, Rye 0: In a Class A semifinal at Byram Hills, Andrew Erlic’s goal 1:45 into the game held up for the top-seeded Bobcats. Josh Weiner made eight saves while Michael Linehan made six for No. 4 Rye. Byram will take on No. 14 Somers in the 5 p.m. Saturday championship.

Edgemont 1, Albertus Magnus, 2OT: In the Class B Semifinals at No. 1, Adam Glanzman scored on a rebound from Justin Orden with one minute left. Teammate Ben Gottesdiener had five saves. Tim Morris had seven saves for the No. 4 Falcons. The Panthers will play No. 6 Rye Neck at Arlington on Saturday in the championship at 2:30 p.m.

The gist is that what was supposed to be a close game was anything but. There was a little suspense at halftime when Kazumasa Ikenaga’s spectacular twirling goal against six defenders cut the lead to 2-1. But Byram cashed in a corner kick less than three minutes into the second half and it was all over.

Honestly, I wouldn’t have gone to this game if I knew there’d be a four-goal margin. For most of the year I’ve been assigned to games at the discretion of my editors. Finally in the playoffs I convinced them to send me to Byram, anticipating that it would be a great game. Whoops. The Monday morning quarterback would send me to Rye-Eastchester, which went to PKs.

Bottom line is Byram looks great. I know they haven’t done well against Rye this year but you still have to like them playing at home. Keio, while a little run down, is still one of the more disciplined teams around. The fact that Greg Shaheen carved them up so bad says something about Shaheen and Byram.

The last thing I wanted to mention was something I could only mention in passing in my article. Yesterday was the last game for Ikenaga, an underappreciated player because of the school he played for. Playing against bigger schools every day, Ikenaga put up 53 goals and 13 assists (25 and 10 this year) over the last two seasons. He singlehandedly saved Keio in a playoff against Pearl River last year and against Beacon this year. The guy had a tremendous shot and is definitely one of the best players I’ve seen in my couple of years covering boys soccer.