PARIS — Oxford Hills girls’ soccer goalkeeper Breanna Martin has seen the onslaught every day in practice since the regular season ended.

One by one, until everyone has taken a crack, the Vikings tee it up and pelt their senior net minder with penalty kick after penalty kick. Good exercise, considering how many playoff games are settled in that two-dimensional universe.

“You just try to read the hips, because unless they’re able to spin the ball when they’re kicking it, typically their hips give it away pretty well,” Martin said of her unenviable task. “Some of them are tricky.”

Not tricky enough, apparently. Three saves, a rattled crossbar and an outright miss left Martin unblemished Tuesday night and made No. 3 Oxford Hills a 1-0 winner over No. 6 Mt. Blue in an Eastern Class A quarterfinal that went the distance at Gouin Athletic Complex.

Martin made 15 saves during 110 total minutes of regulation and two overtime periods. Then she stonewalled Jaycee Mullen, Makenzie Conlogue and Rachel Karno in the shootout.

The goalie also took her turn against Mt. Blue counterpart Gabrielle Foy in the sequence of alternating penalty kicks. Like three of her Vikings teammates, Martin couldn’t convert.

But Oxford Hills’ second sniper, Mikayla Morin, made the most of her one-on-one opportunity, planting the ball into the lower right corner of the cage. It stood up as the margin of victory.

“We practiced (penalty kicks) multiple times during the week,” Oxford Hills coach Cortney Sirois said. “I didn’t tell them (who would be shooting) until they actually were going to take them, because I didn’t want them to get nervous or anything. But we made sure everyone was ready.”

Oxford Hills (8-3-4) advanced to a Saturday semifinal at No. 2 Brunswick. Game time is 11 a.m.

Defense drove the Vikings into the next round, as has been their calling card. Martin and Oxford Hills have given up only eight goals all season, and never more than one in any game.

Martin logged her ninth shutout despite Mt. Blue’s 24-12 advantage in shots on goal.

“We played so well. She was a hot goalie, and we knew that coming in,” Mt. Blue coach Fred Conlogue said. “She had some great saves. I thought we were pretty well matched up, but she definitely made a difference.”

Liz Libby, Kiersten Zufelt, Joanna Murch, Lacey Landry and Abbie Eastman led an Oxford Hills defensive wall that forced Mt. Blue (8-6-1) to unload many of those shots from long range.

When the Cougars did put point-blank pressure on Martin, she was sensational. Highlights were a fingertip denial of Marina West in the first half, another tip save against Conlogue early in the second half and a leaping grab to snuff out a would-be game-winner by Zyrah Giustra in the first overtime.

Five minutes later in that extra session, Martin went to her knees and barely pounced on a centering pass from Makenzie Thompson before Conlogue got there. Martin needed more than a minute to recover from the resulting collision but didn’t require a substitute.

“We were putting a lot of pressure on her, but you’ve got to give her a lot of credit. She hung in there and stayed in the game. She’ll probably be a little sore tomorrow,” Fred Conlogue said.

Mt. Blue enjoyed an extended run of about 20 minutes in Oxford Hills’ end of the field after intermission, unleashing the first six shots of the half. Martin made four saves in that span.

After that flurry, the game seemed to have penalty kicks scrawled all over it.

“Our defense has kept us in many, many games. We just have trouble getting offense going sometimes,” Sirois said. “I just told the girls this was their time and they needed to pick up their game or it was going to be done.”

Oxford Hills twice lost 1-0 to Brunswick during the KVAC campaign.

The Vikings hadn’t faced Mt. Blue. The Cougars stormed into the tourney with five straight wins after dropping consecutive games to Lawrence, Bangor and Mt. Ararat by a combined score of 14-0.

“That was actually good for us. It prepared us for the last five games,” Fred Conlogue said. “We would have liked to have won another one.”

Martin, one of eight Oxford Hills seniors, wouldn’t allow it.

“I knew PKs were going to be hard to stop,” she said. “It’s in the back of your mind, but you don’t want it to come down to that.”

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