HIGHLAND WINS 17TH INJURY HALTS SHOWDOWN WITH QUARTZ HILL HIGHLAND 1, QUARTZ HILL 0.Byline: Erik Boal Special to the Daily News PALMDALE - As the final whistle blew Saturday night, several members of Highland High of Palmdale's girls' soccer team let out screams of joy as they mobbed each other near midfield. A few feet away, Amy Butala hugged first-year coach Juan Paolo as they celebrated the Bulldogs' 1-0 victory. Forty yards away, Quartz Hill players were fighting back tears. Not because the Rebels' 13-game Golden League unbeaten streak had been snapped by their rival, but because their teammate, Shannon Cox Shannon Cox (born July 3, 1986) is an Australian rules footballer for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League. Cox, an Indigenous footballer, was picked up as a rookie by Collingwood at the 2005 National Rookie Draft, and following some good , lay face down on the cold field at Highland High. With less than a minute remaining in the game, Quartz Hill's Lauren Benesch served a corner kick into Highland's box. Cox, looking to tie the score, attempted a bicycle kick bicycle kick n. 1. A cardiovascular exercise performed by lying on one's back, extending the feet and hips upward, and moving them in a motion similar to the pedaling of a bicycle. 2. , but the sophomore midfielder landed awkwardly on the back of her head and neck, and she lay motionless on the ground as play continued before Highland kicked the ball out of bounds. Quartz Hill coach Maury Cauchon and several of Cox's teammates immediately rushed to her aid and covered her with several blankets, making sure to keep her immobilized. After a five-minute delay, the referee decided to halt the game with 40 seconds left, giving Highland (17-2-1, 7-1) its first victory over the Rebels (8-8-2, 7-1-1) since 1997. Paramedics soon arrived and attended to Cox, who was surrounded by her parents, Cauchon, junior goalkeeper Alicia Lugo and Quartz Hill administrators. After determining that Cox had feeling in her fingers and toes Fingers and Toes See also anatomy; body, human; hands. adactyly a birth defect in which one or more fingers or toes are missing. dactyl a digit; a finger or toe. See also measurement. , paramedics strapped her on a backboard back·board n. 1. A board placed under or behind something to provide firmness or support. 2. A board placed beneath the body of a person with an injury to the neck or back, used especially in transporting the person in such a way , fitted her with a neck brace brace: see drill. (character) brace - left brace or right brace. and carried her off the field on a stretcher stretcher /stretch·er/ (strech´er) a contrivance for carrying the sick or wounded. stretch·er n. . She was transported via ambulance to Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital for further evaluation. ``She said her neck was bothering her, and anytime you have a neck injury, you don't move a player,'' Cauchon said. ``You don't want to ever see a player hurt that bad.'' Even after Highland - ranked No. 8 by the Daily News - snapped its 15-game winless streak against Quartz Hill, Paolo's celebration was tempered. ``I know all these kids from around town, and I don't want to see anyone getting hurt like that,'' he said. ``I just hope she's OK.'' Watching Cox taken off the field on a stretcher added to an emotional night for Cauchon and his players, who lost the game on a 68th-minute penalty kick, after a Quartz Hill defender was whistled after shoving Highland's Alex Fulladosa in the back. Junior Farryn Townley converted the ensuing en·sue intr.v. en·sued, en·su·ing, en·sues 1. To follow as a consequence or result. See Synonyms at follow. 2. To take place subsequently. penalty shot, beating Lugo to the lower-left corner for her eighth goal of the season. A minute earlier, Lugo had kept the Bulldogs off the scoreboard by stopping Sahar Haghdan on a point-blank shot the shot of a gun pointed directly toward the object to be hit. See also: Point-blank inside the 6-yard box. ``The streak has finally been broken,'' said Paolo, whose team set the program record Saturday for wins in a season. ``This is for the girls. I've been through this before, but this is for them. I'm so proud of their effort.'' Erik Boal, (818) 713-3607 erik.boal(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Quartz Hill's Aja Mandrell, right, tries to block a shot by Highland's Anika Perkins in Saturday's Golden League clash. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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