With the spotlight shining on the winning team after each state tournament game, it's often easy to miss the emotional impact of the sudden ending on the losing team in the single-elimination event. A bunch of teams had to deal with that after falling in the opening or quarterfinal rounds last week.
For Gloucester County Institute of Technology senior Natalia Croce, the final chapter of her standout career was written in a 3-0 loss to Kingsway in the South Jersey Group 4 quarterfinals.