dumb soccer question

Moderator1 is correct. It should count as a tie, with one team advancing on penalty kicks ... at least if this happens in playoffs or a tournament. That's the NCAA standard, except when the national championship game is decided by PKs (oddly enough).
That's what we do. I get calls from teams that win the PK wondering why we called it a tie, but I've never gotten a complain from the losing side.

 

Our state uses them for district games. In normal games the coaches can choose whether they want to use them or not, or even if they want to play overtime or just let it end in a tie. Some coaches like to do it once in a while to practice that situation for the playoffs.

 

this was a playoff game, so somebody had to win.

 

These are just for regular season tournaments. We have a couple of big ones, one 16-team, the other usually two 16-team events that run side by side before the state playoffs start.