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DOWNEY – Say it ain’t so.
Santa Barbara High’s dominating run through CIF’s postseason is officially over – and along with it the Dons’ bid for an undefeated season – as Corona del Mar finally stopped the Dons 1-0 in Saturday’s Division-II CIF SoCal Regional final played at Warren High School in Los Angeles.
The Sea Kings’ Reed Williams scored his 32nd goal of the [...]
DOWNEY – For a team that somehow kept extending its season game after game, Dos Pueblos’ run is finally done. The Chargers, who won time and time again this postseason when few thought they would, made it all the way to Saturday’s Division-I CIF SoCal Regional final as an unseeded darkhorse from the Southern Section’s [...]
Posted by Blake Dorfman on March 11, 2010 · View Comments
Miguel Diaz had a busy second half on Thursday at Peabody Stadium.
The Dinuba goalie was caught in the middle of Santa Barbara High’s version of the O.K. Corral, facing 14 shots — most from point-blank range — after halftime. While the Dons converted only one of those 14, it was good enough to keep their [...]
Posted by Presidio Sports on March 11, 2010 · View Comments
A fantastic season was eight minutes from ending.
Dos Pueblos’ boys soccer team found itself trailing 2-0 at San Fernando on Thursday in the 72nd minute, but scored two goals in two minutes and won 4-2 in a penalty-kick shootout to advance to Saturday’s SoCal Division I Regional Championship Game. There, the Chargers will face a [...]
Posted by Presidio Sports on March 11, 2010 · View Comments
The postseason accolades have started pouring in for Santa Barbara’s undefeated CIF-ss champion boys soccer team as the Dons swept the Channel League’s individual awards.
Jesse Gonzalez was named Offensive Player of the Year, Sanford Spivey is Defensive Player of the Year and Todd Heil is Coach of the Year.
None of the Dons’ lineup was left [...]
Posted by Presidio Sports on March 9, 2010 · View Comments
Coach Tovi Eliasen wasn’t particularly impressed with the Dos Pueblos soccer team’s performance on Tuesday, but the Chargers are moving on nonetheless after a 1-0 victory at Stockdale in Bakersfield.
DP (16-6-7) will play at San Fernando High School (19-2-2) on Thursday in the semifinals of the Division I SoCal Regional Tournament.
“It was an ugly, ugly, [...]
Posted by Blake Dorfman on March 9, 2010 · View Comments
Transitioning from Friday night’s monumental CIF Championship game against Dos Pueblos to Tuesday’s Division II SoCal Regional contest against Arleta was a bit strange for Santa Barbara’s boys soccer team.
One was played under the lights at Harder Stadium in front of a roaring crowd of 8,000, while the other was on a chilly, windy afternoon [...]
Posted by Presidio Sports on March 7, 2010 · View Comments
Santa Barbara’s just-crowned boys soccer team was given the No. 1 seed in the CIF Southern California Regional playoff on Sunday, drawing Arleta for a Tuesday home-playoff game at 4 p.m.
Dos Pueblos, runner-up to the Dons, was bumped into the Division-I bracket and will travel to its No. 1 seed, Stockdale, for another Tuesday clash [...]
Call it Dons domination.
Playing on the big stage in front of a huge crowd, Santa Barbara High’s boys soccer team put on a dazzling performance to cap an incredible season.
The Dons scored three goals in a 10-minute span in the first half and controlled the tempo from start to finish to overwhelm crosstown rival Dos [...]
For the soccer players from Santa Barbara High and Dos Pueblos, Friday night is the dream game.
After years of playing with and against each other as kids on AYSO and club soccer teams, the crosstown rivals will meet in the biggest match for a prep player: the CIF Championship.
The Dons and Chargers clash for the [...]