COLORADO SPRINGS — In its first game since winning last season’s Class 4A state championship, the Mullen boys soccer team went out and lost a 2-0 contest to Evergreen.
That defeat — which happened way back on Aug. 20 — turned out to be the catalytic event the Mustangs needed to ignite a run towards a second straight state title, which they got Saturday evening at Weidner Field with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Kent Denver.
Senior Alexander Escala scored the only goal of the game with just over three minutes left in regulation and top-seeded Mullen withstood a chance in the final seconds to claim the program’s third all-time state championship…