GIRLS' SOCCER: REBELS DENY, TIE BULLDOGS.Byline: ERIK BOAL Special to the Daily News PALMDALE -- Not since the Golden League expanded to seven schools has a girls' soccer team completed the 12-game gauntlet gauntlet /gaunt·let/ (gawnt´let) a bandage covering the hand and fingers like a glove. with a perfect record. Quartz Hill made sure rival Highland of Palmdale wasn't going to be the first. Although the host Bulldogs rallied for a 1-1 tie Monday night, extending their league unbeaten streak to 32 games, the best Highland (10-4-7, 9-0-1) can do is match the success of last year's team, which finished its league schedule with 11 victories and a tie against Quartz Hill (12-6-2, 6-3-1). ``They took it to us. I thought we got lucky,'' said Highland coach Juan Paolo, whose team remained unbeaten in its past five meetings with Quartz Hill since a 4-2 setback setback In architecture, a steplike recession in the profile of a high-rise building. Usually dictated by building codes to allow sunlight to reach streets and lower floors, the building must take another step back from the street for every specified added height interval. Jan. 6, 2005. ``But I guess it's the sign of a good team. We played lousy lous·y adj. lous·i·er, lous·i·est 1. Infested with lice. 2. Extremely contemptible; nasty: a lousy trick. 3. , but we still didn't lose.'' Samantha Johnson, who missed the teams' first meeting Jan. 16 at Quartz Hill because she was training with the U.S. under-16 national team, tied the score in the 62nd minute. After being pushed down from behind in the penalty area, Johnson calmly buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. a penalty shot in the upper-left corner of the net. Johnson had an opportunity to give Highland the lead four minutes later, but her chip shot from the left side drifted wide right. She also just missed connecting on an Anna Perez throw-in in the game's final minute. Alexa Hale nearly produced the go-ahead goal twice for the Rebels. During a series in the 76th minute, her first shot rolled left of the goal and her second effort was kicked off the line by Highland's Alex Fulladosa. ``I think we've improved since the last time we played them and we had some chances, we just couldn't put one in (at the end),'' said Quartz Hill coach Maury Cauchon, who saw two potential goals saved off the goal line in the 59th minute by Highland's Cynthia Argote. ``These girls like to play against each other and there's never been a boring game. We played hard against a good team that had beaten us before.'' The Rebels scored in the 52nd minute, with Kelsey Wiles wile n. 1. A stratagem or trick intended to deceive or ensnare. 2. A disarming or seductive manner, device, or procedure: the wiles of a skilled negotiator. 3. Trickery; cunning. tapping in the rebound rebound (rē´bownd), n/v 1. a recovery from illness. n 2. an outbreak of fresh reflex activity after withdrawal of a stimulus rebound adjective shot of Ashlin Benesch's 20-yard free kick. ``When they scored, with the way we were going, I didn't think we were coming back,'' Paolo said. ``I've told the girls that we've got to have that killer instinct killer instinct n to have the killer instinct → ir a por todas killer instinct n → combativité f; to have the killer instinct → , that we can't wait to get down before we do it. ``But we're still undefeated and all this did was mathematically eliminate Quartz Hill (from title contention) and open the door for Lancaster.'' Highland plays at Lancaster (12-7-2, 9-1-1) at 4:30 p.m. Friday in the regular-season finale For the music notation program, see . A finale (italian word) is a closing part, act or movement of a dramatic or musical composition, or more generally any event or procedure with a dramatically concluding effect. . erik.boal@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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