Soccer: Regional Games Set For Thursday
Girls games:
Thousand Oaks at San Clemente, Div. 1
Francis Parker at Oaks Christian, Div. 3
Boys Game:
Canoga Park at Santa Margarita, Div. 2
All games set for 5 p.m.
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Girls games:
Thousand Oaks at San Clemente, Div. 1
Francis Parker at Oaks Christian, Div. 3
Boys Game:
Canoga Park at Santa Margarita, Div. 2
All games set for 5 p.m.
For the Marmonte League, Newbury Park's 2-1 victory over Royal along with Calabasas' 2-0 loss to Westlake tonight captured the league title for the Panthers. Vinny Muscarella scored both goals in the win for Newbury Park.
In the Valley Mission League, San Fernando snuck away with the title in a 1-1 tie with visiting Monroe. After falling 1-0 in the 20th minute, SF's Hector Organista scored on a header in the 30th minute.
By scoring all three goals in Agoura's 3-1 victory over Simi Valley today, junior Sam Myerson has tied the school's single season goal-scoring record at 30.
Agoura's next game is this Friday night at Royal at 6 p.m. The last time the two teams met on Jan. 7 the Chargers lost 2-1. Myerson had an assist on the goal in the loss.
I wouldn't necessarily call it too big of an upset but the biggest victory today goes to the Celts, who gave St. Francis its first Mission League loss of the season, beating the Knights 1-0 on their own field.
So.. final, Crespi 1, St. Francis 0 with Ryan Lanutti scoring the game-winner on an assist by freshman Juan Mendoza. Sophomore goalie Omar Zeenni is one of the best stories of the year, picking up yet another shutout against the Golden Knights (they tied 0-0 earlier in the year). He had six saves in this one.
Also, Crespi's senior day game, planned for Monday, was postponed until Feb. 7 because the field was still hurting from the rain last week.
We've done the math over here and if both teams win out the rest of the league season, both would be tied for first, which would give Crespi the one-up aka the league title because of today's win.
FOOTHILL
Burroughs 2, Arcadia 1
Derek Olson and Oscar Castro each scored a goal for Burroughs (16-5-2, 8-1-2). Andre Yanez had seven saves for the Indians.
FRONTIER
Malibu 6, Grace Brthren 2
Nick Frumkin and Manuel Torres eached scored a goal for Grace Brethren (2-9-1, 0-4-1).
Malibu is 6-1-1 overall and 4-0 in league play.
SUNSET SIX
North Hollywood 2, Grant 2
Marlon Chavarria and Enrique Carranza each scored a goal for North Hollywood (1-4-3, 1-3-2).
NONLEAGUE
L.A. Baptist 6, Kilpatrick 0
Jon Hilliger and Cody Phillips scored two goals each for L.A. Baptist (10-7-1).
Any Bruce Hornsby and the Range fans will understand the word play on the 1986 hit off the album "The Way It Is", but unfortunately for Montclair Prep of Panorama City boys' soccer standout Austin Mandel, there was no playing Thursday at Village Christian of Sun Valley, which meant his bid to become the area's all-time leading scorer will have to wait until next week.
Montclair Prep was scheduled to play Village Christian at Balboa Park in Encino, but due to poor field conditions caused by the rain, the Mounties agreed to move the match to Village Christian's home site.
But upon their arrival at the Crusaders' field, referees determined that playing conditions were equally unsafe at Village Christian, postponing the match and leaving the Brown-bound Mandel stuck on 113 career goals, one shy of the record belonging to Oakwood of North Hollywood's Craig Sherman (1978-82), according to statistics reported to Cal-Hi Sports.
Although Daily News sports writer/videographer Justin Frank wasn't able to watch Mandel tie or pass Sherman on the state's all-time scoring list, he was able to talk with the senior standout, who is tied for second this season in the Southern Section with 28 goals.
Look for Justin's video interview with Mandel, who will miss the Mounties' next match to go on a school field trip, in the coming days on the Daily News' prep site.
In a surprisingly Mission League final, Chaminade tied Crespi 0-0.
Crespi coach Rob Kodama said the Celts dominated the entire game, with Chaminade maybe getting one shot on net. Crespi just wasn't able to convert on their many chances.
Unlike yesterday, rain wasn't too much of a factor since the game was being played on Chaminade's turf field. Kodama added that the ball was a bit weighed down from the water so kids couldn't get the ball much further than 15 feet on throw-ins.
Also, there was about 25 seconds of injury time. Pretty strange.
Crespi's grass field is a mess over in Encino so the Celts' game against Loyola for Saturday has been moved over to Chaminade at 1 p.m. with St. Francis and Chaminade's game to follow.
"That's why you pay all the big money for the turf," Kodama said.
When asked what he'd do for practice tomorrow, Kodama said he wasn't sure, maybe just keep the boys indoors. I guess with this big storm a-flowing, he doesn't have much of a choice.
BOYS’ SOCCER
VALLEY MISSION
Monroe 1, Panorama 0
-Monroe's David Diaz scores on an assist from Juan Muniz. Jesse Martinez has three saves for Monroe (8-3-6, 2-0-4)
San Fernando 7, Kennedy 3
-We only got stats from Kennedy so far...goals were by Pedro Arrigan, Marco Gonzalez, Angel Sanchez with one assist from Marduk Cano. David Paniagua had five saves for Kennedy (1-3-2 in league)
WEST VALLEY
El Camino Real 1, Birmingham 0
-El Camino's Dylan Niven scores only goal and ECR keeper Keon Parsa makes six saves while Birmingham's Robert Lopez has six as well. ECR 11-3-3, 2-1-2 and Birmingham 11-3-3, 1-2-2.
NONLEAGUE
Community Charter 3, Animo 0
-Jonathan Estrada has two goals and Alex Benitez has a goal and an assist. CC's Armando Pelayo picks up 3 saves. CC is 10-2-3.
LIBERTY
Viewpoint 3, Milken 1
-Kian Torabian and Chase Meisner both scored and Jeff Sasenowitz had a goal and an assist for Viewpoint (10-5-1, 7-1-1)
Oct. 13: Daily News reporters focus on the Hart-Canyon game in their prep football roundtable.
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