SO. SECTION DIVISION II: ST. FRANCIS COMES CLOSE TO HUGE UPSET --THE KNIGHTS OF LA CANADA NEARLY UPSET THE NATIONALLY RANKED WARRIORS OF IRVINE, BUT AFTER A LATE TYING GOAL, THE TEAMS ARE DECLARED SOUTHERN SECTION DIV. II BOYS' SOCCER CO-CHAMPIONS. ST. FRANCIS 1, WOODBRIDGE 1.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer FULLERTON - At least everyone got to feel good about themselves on the way home. After 80 minutes, two goals, 22 fouls and 25 shots on goal, not much was settled Saturday as St. Francis High of La Canada tied Woodbridge of Irvine 1-1 in the Div. II boys' soccer final at Cal State Fullerton. The teams were declared co-champions and flipped a coin to decide who would take home the championship plaque plaque (plak) 1. any patch or flat area. 2. a superficial, solid, elevated skin lesion. attachment plaques and who would get the championship patches. There was no overtime period Noun 1. overtime period - a period of overtime play to resolve a tie; e.g. basketball extra time, overtime - playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie to settle the game because there were four other games scheduled on the field later in the day. But for underdog St. Francis, which led the game for more than 74 minutes after senior Luke Postlewaite scored off a header (1) In a disk or tape file, a set of data that resides permanently at the beginning. It may be used for identification only (type of file, date of last update, etc.), or it may describe the structural layout of the contents, as is common with many document and database formats. in the fifth minute, it had to be a bittersweet bittersweet, name for two unrelated plants, belonging to different families, both fall-fruiting woody vines sometimes cultivated for their decorative scarlet berries. celebration. Woodbridge (17-1-5) is the third-ranked team in the country, and St. Francis was only 90 seconds away from pulling off a huge upset in its first year playing in Division II. ``I might not look happy right now,'' Postlewaite said. ``But I'm jumping for joy inside.'' As the final minutes ticked off the clock, the Knights' bench could almost smell victory and began jumping up and down and raising their arms. But almost on cue cue, n a stimulus that determines or may prompt the nature of a person's response. cue Psychology Any sensory stimulus that evokes a learned patterned response. See Conditioning. , Woodbridge's Amir Shafii collected a loose ball at the top of the 18-yard box, turned and fired a screaming line drive just under the top of the crossbar to tie the game. ``Their job was to knock us off, and we had to battle them to the end of the game to get a piece of it back,'' Woodbridge coach Jon Szczuka said. ``It was just one of those games where you have a lot of chances that you can't convert and you can see it coming all game, and then you finally convert one in the end.'' Postlewaite's goal came off a cross from senior fullback Daniel Caldwell, who found Collin Bunner near the endline on the right. Bunner then headed the ball back across the goal to Postlewaite, who headed it in. The quick strike allowed St. Francis (26-5-1) to hang back on defense, play cautiously and trust junior goalkeeper Tashi Nakanishi to come off his line. Nakanishi made nine saves on the day, including a spectacular kick save on a breakaway break·a·way adj. 1. Designed to break, bend, or fall apart easily upon impact, especially to create an illusion, as with a theater prop, or for safety, as with a highway sign or barrier. 2. chance by Kevin Long There are four famous people named Kevin Long:
``We were very disappointed (with the late goal), and it takes a minute to get over that shock,'' St. Francis coach Glen Appels said. ``But then you put things in perspective and think about what we've accomplished this season and what it means for our school, we're very proud.'' |
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