SCARBOROUGH — Scarborough’s Mark Diaz and Portland’s Rocco Frenzilli have coached long enough to appreciate and accept the result of Saturday afternoon’s showdown between their Class A boys’ soccer contenders.

Scarborough’s Khalil Ghosheh scored with 8:44 to go in the first half, Portland’s Baptista Muanda answered just 51 seconds before halftime, and neither team could find the net again as they settled for a 1-1 draw.

Both squads are now 5-1-1. Portland is ranked fourth in the latest Varsity Maine poll, while Scarborough is fifth.

“This is a fair result,” said Frenzilli, whose quest for his 300th career victory will have to wait another day. “Both teams, I thought, played back and forth. I’m very pleased with how the boys played.”

“It was a good game and it was just what we expected, two good teams and a playoff atmosphere,” said Diaz, who has 327 career victories. “We would have liked to have gotten (all the Heal) points, but we feel good about our team.”

Ghosheh nearly produced the game’s first goal midway through the first half, but Portland goalkeeper Marco Cifuentes-Robles made the best and biggest of his nine saves, diving to tip the ball away with his right hand.

Later in the half, Ghosheh wouldn’t be denied. After the ball glanced off teammate Matthew Booth, Ghosheh ripped a shot that Cifuentes-Robles deflected, but not enough to keep out of the net.

“That was a really nice goal by Khalil,” said Diaz.

The Bulldogs weren’t able to generate much until the final minute, when Muanda served a corner kick. The ball bounced back out to him, then he dribbled into the box and bent a shot into the far corner with his left foot, just past Scarborough goalkeeper Seamus Corry (eight saves).

“In my mind, I knew I had to shoot,” said Muanda. “I didn’t see the goal, I only shot. I was trying to go far corner.”

“We could have easily folded after that first goal, and we fought back,” Frenzilli added.

Portland had some great looks late in regulation, but Isaac Rodrigues-Nkanza was denied by Corry and Paulo Joao missed just high. Then, with just under 10 minutes left, Rodrigues-Nkanza crossed the ball in front to Joao for a header that was just wide.

The Red Storm then carried play in overtime, earning a pair of corner kicks late in the first OT. Cooper Mallar got a great look in the box, only to shoot high, and finally Finn Coburn missed wide with a header off a corner in the final seconds of the second overtime.

“(Portland’s) a good team,” Coburn said. “It was a competitive game. Both teams had good chances.”