GIRLS' SOCCER: A LITTLE LUCK FOR LANCERS WIN OVER ROYAL SECURES TITLE T.O. 1, ROYAL 0.Byline: ERIK BOAL Special to the Daily News THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. -- Megan Meyer called it a "lucky" goal. But at the end of a regular season that saw the Thousand Oaks' girls' soccer team go winless in its first two 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. games and coach Geoff Raives serve a nine-game suspension, the Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. were due a little good fortune. Meyer tucked a 16-yard volley volley /vol·ley/ (vol´e) a number of simultaneous muscle twitches or nerve impulses all caused by the same stimulus. vol·ley n. off Alyson Birgel's free kick inside the right post in the 72ndminute, and junior goalkeeper Laura Brain held off a late surge by 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. to lead host Thousand Oaks to a 1-0 victory, clinching an outright league title. "I barely got my toe on it," said Meyer, who helped the Lancers (18-4-3, 10-1-3) go unbeaten in their final 13 games. "But a goal's a goal." With the barrage of first-half shots the Lancers had against Royal senior goalkeeper Nicole Padilla, it appeared a goal would be inevitable. Despite playing with a broken finger and a sprained left ankle, Padilla finished with 10 saves, twice denying Michelle Cruz on breakaways in the opening 25minutes and coming through with several other timely deflections for the Highlanders (12-3-6, 8-2-4). "They're a great team and their goalkeeper did a great job," said Raives, who remained unbeaten in the 16 games he coached this season. All of Thousand Oaks' losses came during his suspension for violating the SouthernSection's association rule. "I thought we had a lot of chances to put it away in the firsthalf, but to Royal's credit, they came back in the second half. But we wanted to show there's a reason why we're winning the league and it's not because we tied." Said Royal coach Scott Cameron, whose only league losses came against Thousand Oaks: "(My girls) have the biggest heart of any team I've ever coached. There's no quit in them. We had our chances, but (Thousand Oaks is) a good champion. They're worthy of a championship." Senior Katie Coulas, a central figure in Thousand Oaks' 2005 run to a league co-championship -- sharing the title with Royal -- helped swing the momentum back in the Lancers' favor midway through the second half, leading to Birgel's free kick. "No matter what happened we felt like we were going to score," Coulas said. "This is the most amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. feeling ever. When the whistle A simple whistle is a woodwind instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. Many types exist, from small police and sports whistles (also called pea whistles), to much larger train whistles, which are steam whistles specifically designed for use on blew, I was just looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the first person to hug." erik.boal@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): box Box: LOCAL HEROES |
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