For 40 minutes Saturday, the Seton-LaSalle boys' soccer players looked flustered and completely unsure of themselves in what their coach deemed one of the worst halves they had played all season.

What followed, though, brought a happy ending.

Instead, the closing 40 minutes provided the Rebels with one heck of a turnaround and the crown jewel of what was a golden season.

"It goes from desperation and things looking real grim to complete euphoria," Rebels coach Aaron Panczyk said.

Outplayed and out of whack early, Seton-LaSalle battled back against Camp Hill in the PIAA Class A title game, downing the Lions, 1-0, at Hersheypark Stadium.

The victory provided the exclamation point on a season in which Seton-LaSalle finished as the lone unbeaten team in the state (25-0). The Rebels posted 13 shutouts, outscored their opponents, 124-15, advanced to their fourth consecutive WPIAL final and, of course, captured matching WPIAL and PIAA titles.

A day after the final win, Panczyk perused the soccer standings on the Post-Gazette Web site one final time, but couldn't get a grip on the fact that, after everything was all said and done, a '0' still stood in the Rebels' loss column.

"To be 25-0," Panczyk said, then paused, "it really hasn't sunk in yet."

What did sink in quickly was the way the Rebels ended their brilliant run: a dramatic game-winning goal from Michael Liebert with just 5 seconds remaining.

Shortly before the climactic finish, Panczyk was preparing for what he was going to say to his players during the intermission before overtime. The Rebels have had some bad experiences in overtime games in their recent postseason history and Panczyk was concerned his team's confidence might not be where he would like it to be.

But Liebert put all of those potential worries quickly to rest. Moments earlier, Panczyk said that Liebert ran over to teammate David DelGreco and said, "This is my time," accurately foreshadowing the events that would follow.

"My heart was beating so fast," Panczyk said of Liebert's heroics. "It had to rise to at least 300 beats per minute. It was crazy."

Defensively, the Rebels were able to corral their counterparts throughout, getting a big performance and an even bigger save from goalkeeper Michael Zwolinski, who turned away a Camp Hill penalty kick with a little more than 13 minutes remaining.

The Rebels won despite a rare scoreless showing from DelGreco, who incredibly netted a trio of three-goal outings in the other state playoff games.. Just like every other team the Rebels faced this season, the Lions paid strict attention to DelGreco and were able to limit his touches, thus forcing more of the onus onto his teammates.

"They did a great job of denying balls into him," Panczyk said. "A lot of teams would try to deny him space, but they did a good job of man-marking him."

DelGreco was "the man" for the Rebels all season long, though. He scored a WPIAL-best 60 goals, ending his career with 110. He scored 14 of his goals in the Rebels' seven postseason games.

"Ever since he was a freshman, he had the innate ability to step up in big situations," Panczyk said. "He's not the fastest kid, but he's probably the best finisher we've ever had at this school. He just has amazing will, and hates to lose. Thankfully for him and everybody else associated with the program, we didn't lose this year."

No, the Rebels didn't lose, instead capturing their second state title in three seasons, while adding even more prestige to a program that become one of the WPIAL's elite.

"Of all the teams I've had, I really felt the closest to these kids," Panczyk said. "For me and the coaching staff, these kids just feel like little brothers. It was really a family atmosphere and what we did was really quite an accomplishment."