BURROUGHS SOCCER TOURNEY: SERVITE MANAGES TO SHOCK BURROUGHS.Byline: Patrick Hipes Daily News Staff Writer The Burroughs boys' soccer tournament has quickly become among the biggest and best high school tournaments in the area, so it was only fitting that Monday's championship game followed form. It took 96 minutes and sudden-death overtime to settle it, but Servite High midfielder Keith Buckley's searing sear 1 v. seared, sear·ing, sears v.tr. 1. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of with or as if with a hot instrument. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. blast from the top of the penalty box gave the Friars a surprising 1-0 victory over defending Southern Section Division I champion Royal. The victory by Servite (7-0) snapped the 19-game unbeaten streak of the No. 4 Highlanders (3-1), who experimented with numerous players looking ahead to Wednesday's 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. opener against Camarillo. ``I haven't told the guys yet, but we're going to play a lot of people tonight,'' Royal coach Kevin Corley confided before kickoff. ``We've got Camarillo on Wednesday and 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. on Friday. We can't play this game like a championship game.'' Still, the match had every hint of a high-caliber playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. contest. The Friars, a Southern Section Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. quarterfinalist last season, applied more pressure offensively but were denied time after time by the stingy stin·gy adj. stin·gi·er, stin·gi·est 1. Giving or spending reluctantly. 2. Scanty or meager: a stingy meal; stingy with details about the past. Royal defense and goalkeeper Josh Montgomery. The goal came with 6 minutes left in sudden death, when Buckley crushed a loose ball from the top of the box, using the outside lace to hook the ball away from Montgomery into the upper-right corner of the net. Burroughs 4, Crespi 1: The No. 6 Indians (3-1-2) finished what might have been the most impressive tournament run by outplaying the No. 2 Celts The following pages provide lists of nations or people of Celtic origin, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping: Goidelic Celts
Burroughs, which outshot Servite 23-10 in Saturday's 1-0 semifinal loss, beat three traditionally strong Mission League teams - Harvard-Westlake, No. 10 St. Francis, and the Celts - along the way, outscoring teams 13-6. ``We've been working hard during practices,'' said Indians midfielder Miguel Meneses, who scored in the 37th minute to give Burroughs a 3-1 lead. ``When we do that, it shows in the games.'' The victory gave Burroughs coach Mike Kodama family bragging rights. Brother Rob coaches Crespi. The tournament, in its sixth season, has become one of the Area's most competitive. This year's 16 team field has six league champions from last year and five teams in the Daily News preseason Top 10. |
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