Catalina Foothills sure knows how to destroy a good story.

But the Falcons goal this season isn't to play second fiddle to anyone. They want another boys soccer championship and revitalized Marcos de Niza was in its way on Saturday.

No. 6 seed Catalina Foothills scored twice in six minutes late in the first half and that was the difference in turning back No. 3 and previously undefeated Marcos de Niza, 3-1, in a Division II quarterfinal match at Marcos de Niza.

Catalina Foothills improved to 15-4-4 and is set to face Notre Dame,  a 3-1 winner over Verrado in wednesday's semifinals at Paradise Valley High School. Game time for that match is 5 p.m. Marcos de Niza suffered its first loss to finish 13-1.

Catalina Foothills, last year's 4A-I boys champ, was dealing in strength with a 1-0 lead 10 minutes into the second half and was seeing few challenges at its end from Marcos de Niza.  On what should have been a benign throw in, the Padres Brian Drew heaved the ball that  junior midfielder Jose Seguera managed to leap between defendersand head in for the tying goal in the 52nd minute.

It's the kind of goal Catalina Foothills coach Julie Walters said she has seen her team give up too many times this season. But they've also shown a knack of recovering from them as well.

The start of themost recent  recovery came in the 65th minute when the Falcons Rodrigo Cordeiro cleaned up a deflection to notch the tie-breaker. Catalina Foothills put the match away in the 71st minute with Justen Glad taking a cross and blasting it past Padres keeper Victor Sanchez for a 3-1 advantage.

"The first half we were trying to find a rhythm," Walters said. "We kept our composure after they tied it. We were developing more patience that produced more possessions and scoring opportunities."

Catalina Foothills struck first n the 13th minute on a free kick from about 25 yards out by Jack Ferguson. Ferguson shaped the kick nicely around the Marcos wall in front of him into the right corner of the net. It was the side Sanchez  figured his teammates had covered. Having several players share the scoring load(three different players scoring on Saturday)  has been a strength for the Falcons.

"'We've had balanced scoring, don't rely on one or two people to score," Walters said. "It comes down in part from unselfish play."

Marcos de Niza, which played more than half its schedule in the final two-plus weeks of the season, had several notable accomplishments undercoach Daryl Chavez. An unbeaten regular season, it's first playoff appearance since the 2007-2008 campaign and its first postseason win in more than a decade (last Tuesday against Washington).

"This was a good year, especially for the seniors," Chavez, a state championship coach several times over at Seton in the past, said. "Prior to this year they'd won seven games in three years...

"In the second half we got out of our game. We were hanging back too much in the defensive third. We were run down a little. We''ve played from behind before this season, but sooner or later it will bite you. It did today."