GIRLS' SOCCER ROUNDUP: TAFT COMES AWAY CLEAN WITH VICTORY.Byline: Daily News The middle of the field resembled something closer to a pig pen Pig Pen “a walking dust storm.” [Comics: “Peanuts” in Horn, 542–543] See : Dirtiness rather than a playing surface for soccer, but there was nothing sloppy slop·py adj. slop·pi·er, slop·pi·est 1. Marked by a lack of neatness or order; untidy: a sloppy room. 2. about the performance turned in Thursday by host Taft High of Woodland Hills. The eighth-seeded Toreadors overcame the subpar sub·par adj. 1. Not measuring up to traditional standards of performance, value, or production. 2. Below par in a hole, round, or game of golf. playing conditions caused by the rain to defeat visiting Sylmar 3-0 in the opening round of the City Section girls' soccer playoffs. Senior Hannah Sasson led Taft (18-6-2) - which will host ninth-seeded North Hollywood (17-6-5) on Tuesday in a Championship division game - with a goal and two assists. Sasson's cross in the 10th minute was redirected by Lauren Yoshizuka to Anna Herrera, who scored her first goal of the season. ``We were shut out in our last two games, so I challenged them to score first,'' said Taft coach Greg Venger, whose team defeated North Hollywood 2-0 in the Sylmar tournament in December. ``When we get the first goal, we play a lot more relaxed. Once (Anna) scored, we settled in and took care of business.'' Thanks to the aggressive play of goalkeeper Nicole Gonzalez, 25th-seeded Sylmar (7-4-4) - which will face Van Nuys (5-6-3) in an Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. division game Tuesday - kept the Toreadors off the scoreboard for the rest of the first half. But Gonzalez rushed to clear a ball in the 53rd minute, giving Sasson an open look at the net from 30 yards. Gonzalez rushed back to try to defend the goal, but Sasson's shot deflected de·flect intr. & tr.v. de·flect·ed, de·flect·ing, de·flects To turn aside or cause to turn aside; bend or deviate. [Latin d off her hands and into the net. ``We took advantage of some bad clearances and that's what you have to do against teams like (Sylmar),'' said Venger, who received a goal in the 61st minute from Yoshizuka off an assist from Sasson. ``We had a couple of bad slips and bad bounces that went against us in the back, but they couldn't take advantage.'' Ali Shorr had six saves for Taft, including a diving A DIV Associate of Divinity stop inside the 6-yard box on a shot by Jessica Andrade in the 47th minute. Shorr made another diving save in the 67th on a Sylmar free kick. - Erik Boal --El Camino Real 11, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. 1: El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
quest after, go after, pursue look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the a fifth consecutive City Section title in dominant fashion with the first-round home victory over 32nd-seeded Los Angeles (6-7-1). Junior Katie Oakes had four goals and Katie Etcher etch v. etched, etch·ing, etch·es v.tr. 1. a. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid. b. , a freshman, and Nikki Walberg, a senior, each scored twice for top-seeded El Camino Real, which extended its unbeaten streak to 15 games. El Camino Real is now four victories shy of matching Chatsworth's record of five consecutive section championships. The Conquistadores will face 16th-seeded Locke of Los Angeles (17-3-1) - a 6-1 winner over 17th-seeded Grant of Van Nuys - on Tuesday in a Championship division contest. El Camino Real has won 19 playoff games Noun 1. playoff game - one game in the series of games constituting a playoff game - a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours" playoff - any final competition to determine a championship in a row since a 2-1 loss to San Pedro in the 2000 semifinals. --Chatsworth 4, Venice 0: Christina Chopin, Alexa Deever, Lindsey Liggera and Jessica Skowron each scored goals and Sara Pallett had two assists for host Chatsworth (12-6-2), which defeated 30th-seeded Venice (7-8-3) in a first-round game. Morgan Liggera had two saves en route to her eighth shutout for third- seeded Chatsworth, which will play host to 14th-seeded Monroe of North Hills (12-1-1) - a 3-0 winner over 19th-seeded Verdugo Hills - on Tuesday in a Championship division contest. --Granada Hills 2, Canoga Park 0: Caitlin Johnson and Ashleigh Ravella each scored goals for Granada Hills (11-8-4) in the home victory over 27th-seeded Canoga Park (4-9-2). Granada Hills, the No. 6 seed, will play host to 11th-seeded South Gate - a 7-1 winner over Foshay Magnet magnet: see electromagnet; magnetism. magnet Any material capable of attracting iron and producing a magnetic field outside itself. By the end of the 19th century, all known elements and many compounds had been tested for magnetism, and all were - in a Championship division game Tuesday. --Kennedy 3, Eagle Rock 2 (OT): Hallie Anderson scored the winning goal in overtime for Kennedy of Granada Hills (7-4-5), which recorded the first-round upset at 15th-seeded Eagle Rock (11-10-1). Giselle Loera and Amanda Bernal also scored for 18th-seeded Kennedy, which plays at second-seeded Narbonne of Harbor City (18-3-3) on Tuesday. --North Hollywood 2, Van Nuys 0: Xiomara Martinez and Lara Takasugi each scored for ninth-seeded North Hollywood (16-6-5), which won its 11th consecutive game with a first-round victory over visiting Van Nuys (5-6-3), seeded No. 24. |
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