“But we really want to go forward with this and take it as a learning opportunity. Millikan had played just one of its five previously scheduled league games since New Year’s, thanks to the omicron variant’s pervasive presence, and that clearly impacted its sharpness. 26ĭowney soccer coach Javier Aguinaga making progress on and off the field Press-Telegram boys soccer and girls soccer Top 10s, Jan. Photos: Wilson boys soccer stays undefeated in league with win over Cabrillo Los Alamitos girls soccer pushes Edison aside to grab share of Surf League title
Wilson girls soccer stuns Millikan, takes command of league race “We’ve done better (the first meeting was a 3-1 Millikan victory), and it feels good to do better, but it’s kind of gut-wrenching to know that we could have done better.” Related Articles It has to be the win,” Jackrabbits head coach Anthony Perez said. “I told the girls before the game, a tie and a loss doesn’t do anything for us. The Portland-bound senior’s 18th goal of the campaign wasn’t enough, ultimately. She had one real opportunity and made it count, sending a 52nd-minute free kick from 33 yards over the head of goalkeeper Jordan Mendoza, who had come on at halftime for starter Alicia Calderon, and into the goal’s ceiling. Yakel, something of a striker/holding midfielder hybrid, was at the heart of nearly everything for Poly, but the Rams gave her few good looks at goal and fewer of them as the game proceeded. Millikan almost scored as the half started - Hannah Marshall fired wide with an open look - and its failure to finish chances proved costly soon after. 3 in the Press-Telegram rankings after last week’s win at Wilson, was as good as the Rams, perhaps better, in the second half, finding its footing in midfield and feasting on the presence of Danika Hunter and Lauryn Zwerner at the back. It skipped past a couple of players onto Sythe’s path, and she finished clinically inside the right post, her sixth goal of the season. Most of these were the product of Sythe’s work, and the Wake Forest-bound junior winger gave Millikan the advantage in the 38th, from a deftly placed long ball by defender Keira Ashworth on the right flank in Rams territory. They were denied by Anaya - she tipped a Hannah Davy blast over the crossbar in the eighth minute, snared a Sydney Trump shot across the goal’s face in the 10th, and dived to deny Sythe on a counterattack in the 36th - and Emmalee Ekblad fired past the left post with a gaping net in the 33rd.
The Rams, dominant in midfield, outshot Poly, 12-5, and created eight genuine chances before halftime. 4 in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 rankings, ought to have put a half-dozen away. Millikan, which tops the Press-Telegram Top 10 and is No.
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