HIGHLANDS RANCH >> The moment has never been too much for Broomfield soccer’s Ms. Big Shot, Victoria Choren.

Many of the program’s best moments, in the biggest spots, have come by way of her heroics the past four years. And on Friday afternoon, in the No. 10 seeded Eagles’ 2-1 win over No. 7 Rock Canyon in 5A’s state tournament second round, she added to it.

On her 77th-minute winner, Choren, with possession, pushed past midfield, got by a defender and took a few steps into the box before delivering a no-doubter into the top of the net with 3:02 remaining.

“It’s amazing to see the growth in Victoria as a player, but even more so as a person,” coach Jim Davidson said. “And I think it was both of those things in that moment. The maturity, the poise, the grit, the concentration. Which I think are all things that she’s developed as a person. You could see it all manifest in that moment.”

Choren’s gamer-winner, under the sun at Halftime Help Stadium, came just 10 days since her last.

Against crosstown rival Legacy on April 29, Choren’s 67th-minute goal beat the Lightning and pushed the Eagles to the top of the 5A Granite Peaks League, which they would win two days later after beating Erie.

A similar moment Friday. But now on a razor’s edge to the end of a career for her, the team’s other seniors, and Davidson, who is retiring at spring’s conclusion as the state’s most-winning soccer coach in history, the feel was different.

“This is my last playoffs, and it’s my coach’s last playoffs,” Choren said of Davidson, who won eight state titles with the boys before stepping away after the 2021 season and has two (so far) with the girls. “Being the head coach of this program that he’s led for so long, I just want to make him proud. And I feel like everyone on the field feels that way.”

The 27th career goal for Choren followed teammate Kohyn Pottorff’s opening score in the 10th and Rock Canyon’s equalizer from Rebecca Aguerrevere in the 53rd.

Tied 1-all, on the road, an underdog to the reigning 5A runner-up, Davidson credited the winning response, which included clearing a corner kick away in the final moments, to his players’ unflinching mentality.

“We bent a couple of times, and it was scary a couple of times,” he said. “But we did a really good job ultimately keeping the play in front of us. I think our girls dug in a little bit and didn’t get rattled. And that says a lot about a team that lacks some experience.”

The Eagles will face the winner of No. 2 Cherry Creek and No. 15 Northfield in the quarterfinals. Though they lost to both teams back in March buy 1-0 scores, Davidson said things for his team are different now.

“I think what’s been going on with this team since spring break is really special,” he said. “I think we are in the discussion (for the crown).”