Bowling Green and South Warren made major revisions to the District 14 boys’ soccer tournament script Tuesday night.

The fourth-seeded Purples bumped off top seed Warren Central 1-0 in Tuesday’s first semifinal at Drakes Creek Middle School, then No. 3 South Warren did the same by a 1-0 score against No. 2 seed Greenwood to set up something of a surprise championship Thursday night.

So much for seeding.

Bowling Green (5-15-3) tossed the script in the first game when the Purples got a goal from Byamungu Amisi with eight minutes left in the first half and then withstood a barrage of second-half chances for the Dragons to make that score hold up and earn an automatic spot into next week’s Region 4 tournament at Barren County.

The Purples’ breakthrough came against a Warren Central team that beat them by a combined 8-0 margin in two regular-season matches this season.

“We hoped we were making progress,” Bowling Green coach Scott Gural said. “So often out of the eight goals that we gave up were mistakes that we made. We talked about it. I mean, they’re a skilled team and if they beat us great, they deserve to beat us. But let’s not beat ourselves.”

Amisi’s goal came off a deflected corner kick by Taylor Neal. Stationed at the top of the penalty box, Amisi swooped in for the loose ball off the deflection and found a gap to punch a shot past Dragons goalkeeper Allen Nezic for what proved to be the game-winner.

“I was so happy for that goal,” Amisi said. “Everybody was saying a few days ago that this could be our last game, but I said, ‘No.’ ”

The Purples still had to hold back the Dragons for 48 minutes, and it wasn’t easy. Warren Central (15-6-1), the reigning district and region champion, erupted for 13 shots over the final 40 minutes after being outshot 5-4 by the Purples in the first half.

“They were putting a lot of pressure on me,” said Bowling Green freshman goalkeeper Oscar Zoellner, who tallied six of his eight saves in the second half.

Many of of the Dragons’ shots were low-percentage long balls forced by Bowling Green’s persistent defense, which dug in and forced Warren Central to settle. The Dragons pushed up ace defender Wilondja Ramazani for the final 10 minutes, and the senior did help create more opportunities but it wasn’t enough to avoid a season-ending loss.

“We got what we deserved,” Warren Central coach A.J. Ray said. “A team works all season to get to the postseason and they want to do something big. You can tell that Bowling Green has been improving throughout the season. They never got their heads down. And on the other hand, we’re a team that’s (had) a complete opposite kind of season and didn’t show up to practice for I don’t know, a month or so.”

South Warren (12-8-1) and Greenwood (11-7-2) engaged in an entertaining shootout in Tuesday’s second semifinal, with both teams surging on the attack at times.

“I thought that when we kept possession and knocked the ball around quickly that we were able to have a more sustained attack,” South Warren coach Tom Alexander said. “I thought that they played very direct. They have a couple kids that are really, really fast and when they have those options the game gets wide open.

“It makes it really fast-paced and I think the last 25, 30 minutes of the game were wide open and it was just going back-and-forth, back-and-forth.”

After a scoreless first half that saw the scoring opportunities near dead even, South Warren finally broke through late in the second half. Spartans sophomore midfielder Luie Kogetsu shed a defender outside the penalty area and sent a through ball ahead to senior forward Anatoli Emina.

Emina snapped off a shot that a Gators defender slightly deflected, but he still buried the rising blast inside the top left post for the game-winner.

“It was curving to the back post, but he just slightly deflected it a little bit,” Emina said. “It just made it go a little wider. It was going in, regardless.”

Both teams got stellar work in goal. Gators goalkeeper Drew Loiars tallied six saves and Spartans keeper Chas Cross had five.

“We know that Chas is a really, really good keeper and it’s a lot to put that on a sophomore,” Alexander said. “He stepped up and was great today. I thought that Drew was fantastic too, he made a couple of really great saves. And he didn’t parry many away today. We were hoping that he would parry a few away and we might get a dirty goal by just tapping it in, but his hands were strong all day.”

After splitting the regular-season series, the Gators came up short in the decisive third meeting.

“It could’ve gone either way,” Greenwood coach Luis Llontop said. “I’m proud of the boys for what they’ve done, the seniors especially. And the whole team played hard, they played like they wanted to win. Unfortunately, we couldn’t put it in.”

South Warren won both regular-season meetings against the Purples, including an 8-1 decision the last time they met Sept. 20.

“Bowling Green’s a really young team,” Alexander said. “I don’t know if many people know this, but I think they play like one senior. And with a young team you have a lot of ups and downs. We watched them play tonight and they worked hard. We know that regardless of what our results were against them earlier this year, we have to come out and match their intensity and work just as hard as they can.”