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Posted by Charlie Cleaves at Jan 24, 2005 4:00PM PST ( 0 Comments )
COUGARS STILL #3 in Division 3!

GIRLS
SOCCER RATINGS
Union-Tribune Poll

(Through Tuesday February 1, Div. in parentheses)


  Overall: 1. La Costa Canyon (I); 2. Patrick Henry (II); 3. USDHS (III); 4. Torrey Pines (I); 5. Westview (II); 6. Poway (I); 7. Coronado (III); 8. University City (II); 9. Fallbrook (I); 10. West Hills (II).
  Others: Bonita Vista (I); Carlsbad (I); El Capitan (II); Francis Parker (IV); Helix (II); La Jolla Country Day (IV); San Pasqual (II); Scripps Ranch (II).
  Div. I: 1. La Costa Canyon; 2. Torrey Pines; 3. Poway; 4. Fallbrook.
  Div. II: 1. Patrick Henry; 2. Westview; 3. University City; 4. West  Hills.
  Div. III: 1. USDHS; 2. Coronado; 3. Steele Canyon; 4. Valhalla.
  Div. IV: 1. La Jolla Country Day; 2. Francis Parker; 3. Horizon; 4. Marian Catholic.
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Cougars Cruise.........

Posted by Charlie Cleaves at Jan 23, 2005 4:00PM PST ( 0 Comments )
After an intense week of league games, the Cougars made up an rain game with El Cajon Valley at El Cajon tonight. With the starters sitting except for a few minutes of the game, the Cougars were led by their talented  Freshmen EMILY MONFORT (2 goals), ALLIE BAILEY (1 goal), and CARMEN URIBE, who scored the first goal of her Varsity career. Other goals were scored by COURTNEY CLEAVES, LISA MIX, MARY BELT, and JENNIFER SCHAFER. NAOMI CARDENAS playing in her first varsity game registered the shutout. Next up Monte Vista on Wednesday.
 
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League Starts!

Posted by Charlie Cleaves at Jan 22, 2005 4:00PM PST ( 0 Comments )

What a week! First the team welcomed JOHANNA and JENNIFER SCHEAFER to the team from North Carolina. The two talented sisters have added maturity to the young program and had an immediate impact for the Cougars. First up was Helix. Despite losing 1-0, the Cougars dominated the game throughout, but let Helix hang around long enough to score late in the second half. The Cougars wasted many scoring opportunitities, including numerous breakways that just missed that would have put the game out of reach in the 1st half. In second half, it was more the same, as the Cougars were frustrated from finding the back of the net. Captain BECCA SANDERS stated, "Obvisouly, we did not play our game. Very frustrating, because if we could have just finished a couple of the scoring chances, we would have won easily." 

Then came Valhalla at Valhalla. Cousin vs. Cousin! Uncle vs. niece! Club Teammates vs. Teammates! Club coach vs. club players! The air was filled with drama before the game started, and once it did start, it was non stop high drama action as Valhalla struck first on JENNIFER DRIVIK's 40 yard flip throw into the box, which was knocked passed a diving DELCIE THANKACHAN. DELCIE playing keeper for the first time since she was 10 years old, played incredible through out the game in the absence of injured keepers SUMMER BLAND and CARMEN URIBE. The Cougars evened the score 1-1 late in the first half when COURTNEY CLEAVES headed a ball pass club teammate DANI O'BRIEN in a wild exchange in front of then net. COURTNEY's goal was set up by BECCA SANDERS' shot that hit the crossbar after two shots by SARAH YOUNG and AMANDA ROBBINS. Coming out of halftime, the Cougars were flat as Valhalla was relentless in trying to score. With each DRIVIK flip throw, the Cougars held their breath, as the defense led by JANEL SANCHEZ cleared the ball, and attempted to transition without much luck. Finally late in the 2nd half the Cougars put together a string of scoring opportunitiites that Valhalla survived and the game ended in a 1-1 tie. Having coached most of the Valhalla players over the years in Club, Coach Charlie stated, "That was the most gut wrenching game I have ever been a part of. Not only did I have to face my niece LISA MARLOW, and Valhalla players that I have coached since they were 10 years old, all summer we worked on JENNIFER DRIVIK's throw ins for our club season. She literally turned every ball out of abounds into a scoring chance for Valhalla. I'm pretty sure that I wll have nightmares leading up to our rematch!" Next up El Cajon Valley on Monday. 

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Posted by Charlie Cleaves at Jan 10, 2005 4:00PM PST ( 0 Comments )

COUGARS REACH NUMBER 3 IN RANKINGS!

GIRLS
SOCCER RATINGS
Union-Tribune Poll

(Through Jan. 9, Div. in parentheses)


  Overall: 1. La Costa Canyon (I); 2. Poway (I); 3. Patrick Henry (II); 4. USDHS (III); 5. Torrey Pines (I); 6. University City (II); 7. Westview (II); 8. Coronado (III); 9. West Hills (II); 10. La Jolla Country Day (IV).
  Others (in alphabetical order): Bonita Vista (I); Carlsbad (I); El Capitan (II); Fallbrook (I); Francis Parker (IV); Helix (II); San Pasqual (II); Scripps Ranch (II).
  Division I: 1. La Costa Canyon; 2. Poway; 3. Torrey Pines. Division II: 1. Patrick Henry; 2. University City; 3. Westview. Division III: 1. USDHS; 2. Coronado; 3. Steele Canyon. Division IV: 1. La Jolla Country Day; 2. Francis Parker; 2. Horizon.
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Cougars frustrated in tie with Santana.

Posted by Charlie Cleaves at Jan 5, 2005 4:00PM PST ( 0 Comments )
Despite dominating the entire game, the Cougars were unable to add to their 1-0 score and with 12 minutes left, Santana scored on a counter off a Cougar corner kick. The Cougar goal was set up by a brillant 40 yard dribbling run from box to box by COURTNEY CLEAVES, in which she beat 4 Santana players and passed to EMILY MONFORT, who calmly one touched the ball into the back of the net. Coach Charlie stated, "Courtney's dribbling run was awesome, but in the end the game's result was very frustrating. If us missing 5 open net goals was not enough, our lack of intensity after the Santana goal was even worse. We are really going to have to pick up our mental game if we are to compete for league and CIF titles." Next up, El Cajon Valley on Friday.