BOYS' SOCCER: WESTLAKE BEATS DEPLETED ROYAL WESTLAKE 3, ROYAL 1.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer WESTLAKE VILLAGE - A Westlake High team hungry for a second consecutive Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. boys' soccer title took advantage of a Royal of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. defense that was without two starting defenders and its top goalkeeper. Westlake defeated the visiting Highlanders 3-1 in Friday's regular-season finale to clinch Clinch, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, formed by the junction of two forks in SW Va., and flowing generally SW across E Tenn. to the Tennessee River at Kingston. the Marmonte championship. The victory comes against a Royal lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime. that had posted shutouts in eight of its previous nine games to climb within a point of the first-place Warriors entering the finale. Westlake (15-2-4, 10-1-3) was among the Highlanders' recent shutout victims, having played to a scoreless tie against Royal (13-9-5, 8-2-4) last week. The Warriors took control early this time. Westlake's Alex Olszewski scored the game's first goal in the 19th minute, and teammate Chris Dervin tapped in a shot with an assist by Nicky Alinan to put the Warriors up 2-0 at halftime. Westlake had six shots on goal before Royal took its first in the 31st minute. ``I don't think they were as good as they were the last time we faced them,'' Westlake coach Bill Propster said, noting the Highlanders' lineup that was depleted de·plete tr.v. de·plet·ed, de·plet·ing, de·pletes To decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out. [Latin d by injury. ``But I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if that would have made a difference. We came out really strong in the first half.'' Westlake goalkeeper Jordan Mannisto blocked a penalty kick in the 59th minute, but Royal's John Avina scored on the rebound. The goal was just the third allowed by the Warriors in the last seven games. Brett Berman capped the scoring with a goal in the 79th minute. Heather Gripp, (818) 713-3607 heather.gripp(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Westlake's Jordan Mannisto jumps over Royal's Ben Spielman as Spielman kicks the ball away in Friday's game. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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