A mishandled shot and an empty tank ended the Greenbrier boys soccer team's season in Tuesday's Class AAAA state semifinals with a 1-0 loss to Chamblee.

Greenbrier (20-2-0, AAAA No. 1) scored the only goal of the game, but the shot went into the home team's net with less than two minutes left in the first half.

Chamblee (14-3-0, AAAA No. 8) got the goal after senior Nick Austin took the shot off a corner kick that went sailing toward the net's lower right corner. Wolfpack senior Luke Gibb made a stab with his foot to save the ball but instead deflected it into his own goal.

"If I said they scored a real goal I'd be lying. We gave it to them," Greenbrier goalkeeper Jonathan Shackelford said.

Shackelford made seven saves on the night, but the Wolfpack offense failed to convert several shot attempts during a sloppy second half.

After Chamblee took a 1-0 lead into halftime, a heavy dew settled on the field during the second half that made ball control a problem for both teams.

"When the sun went down the dew hit, and there was a lot of slipping and sliding," Greenbrier coach Chip Warren said. "That went both ways though. It was our touch that was terrible tonight."

The season-ending loss came only hours after a national ranking released on Tuesday by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America listed Greenbrier as the No. 8 team in the country.

The ranking came on the heels of state tournament wins against AAAA No. 7 Woodward and AAAA No. 2 St. Pius X.

"To me we didn't have the same intensity that we had against St. Pius," Warren said. "The guys gave it everything they had, but it looked like the tank was empty."

Chamblee brought pressure early on the Wolfpack defense and, Chamblee coach Uwe Neuhaus said, executed its game plan perfectly.

"The strategy we had absolutely worked," Neuhaus said. "We played with a pre-sweep and made their No. 10 (Will Dunaway) not even a factor."

The Wolfpack mustered one last chance to tie the game late in the second half. On a Greenbrier corner kick with just more than a minute to go, Shackelford came out of the Wolfpack goal and crossed the entire field to make a play on the corner kick.

The senior goalkeeper connected on a header but just missed the net wide right.

"We didn't know much about them, but they knew what we were going to do," Shackelford said. "They shut down our key players."

Reach Billy Byler at (706) 863-6165 or billy.byler@augustachronicle.com.