WESTLAKE OUTPLAYS SIMI BUT IS LEFT WITH TIE, TEARS : WESTLAKE 1 SIMI VALLEY 1.Byline: Lee Barnathan Daily News Staff Writer 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 and the tears flowed Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant . The Westlake High girls' soccer team - in particular Meghan Daly and Naomi Chu - never felt so much pain at giving everything it had. When you're in second place and you just outplayed 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. leader 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. , somehow a 1-1 tie doesn't seem at all satisfying. The only time it did was right after Tasha Spangler headed in a corner kick from Patti Hostin 16 minutes into the second half that tied the score. At that point, the Warriors
But Alexandria Ingraham's first-half goal, in the sixth minute, was enough to give Simi Valley (15-5-1, 10-1-1) its needed point and extend its unbeaten streak to 11 straight matches. Westlake needed a victory to control its league destiny Destiny goddess of destiny of mankind. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 78] See : Fate . Now, Simi Valley needs only a win and a tiein its final two matches to claim its second straight title. ``They wanted the championship,'' Westlake coach Tahn Hyun said. ``Despite how we're young and all (two seniors and four juniors on a 17-player roster), the girls wanted the championship.'' Daly, a senior forward, and Chu, a junior midfield mid·field n. Sports 1. The section of a playing field midway between goals. 2. Players whose usual positions are in the midfield. mid , had not played in as important a match in their high school careers. Westlake had last won the league in 1995. Daly was a freshman in Boston and Chu was an eighth-grader. So they came out and pressured the Pioneers hard. Chu mixed it up in the middle and Daly stayed outside and waited for through balls, which came frequently enough. She accounted for most of her team's 15 shots. ``This is my senior year and we wanted league,'' Daly said. So after 100 minutes, Daly and Chu couldn't control their emotions. Chu took the tie especially hard because Ingraham was her responsibility and she felt her inability to play the ball away from Ingraham caused the goal. Ten minutes after the match ended, her teammates had left the field, but Chu remained there, upset and being consoled by family and friends. ``This game was more important,'' she said. ``You don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how bad we wanted this game. We trained the whole week for it. Our team didn't break down, but I did.'' No one agreed with her. ``Not at all,'' a composed Daly said. ``They have to go through everyone else. It's the team's fault.'' |
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