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Avery Schwartz scored three times on Tuesday as the top-seeded Cate boys soccer team advanced through the second round of the CIF Division 7 playoff with a 5-2 victory over visiting Coast Union.Schwartz's first two gave Cate a 2-0 lead at halftime and his third gave the Rams a commanding 5-1 lead on the Broncos in the 65th minute."I got a lot of good feeds from my midfielders and other guys. I was able to take my chances," Schwartz said after the game.The Yale-bound senior now … [Read more...]
Cate’s boys soccer team brought some joy on a day of sadness at the school.Center back Joshua Yaro scored after a 70-yard solo run during a six-goal first half outburst, and the top-seeded Rams opened defense of the CIF Division 7 title with a 9-0 rout over visiting Newbury Park Adventist on Thursday.The team dedicated the game to math teacher Colin Day, who passed away earlier in the day after a bout with stomach cancer.“The boys in blue were committed to playing with the kind … [Read more...]
Cate senior Jack Langan had a breakout game in the final regular season boys soccer game on Tuesday against Laguna Blanca.Langan scored two goals and added an assist for the first points of his career in a 7-0 Condor League win.Freshman Daniel Rodriguez also scored his first goal, running up from his position as left back. Sophomore Matthew Firestone had a goal and two assists and junior Abhay Singh netted a goal.UCSB commit Ema Boateng rounded out the scoresheet with two goals and … [Read more...]
Avery Schwartz netted two goals and set up another in Cate's 4-0 victory over Thacher on Saturday.The victory gave the Rams their third straight Condor League title.Shuta Kobayashi lifted Cate to a 1-0 lead in the 16th minute on an assist from junior Ema Boateng. Schwartz's first made it 2-0 and Boateng delivered a goal of his own to hand Cate a 3-0 advantage at halftime.It was the ninth shutout for goal keeper Blake Wands and the defense.Thacher is the No. 2 team in CIF-ss … [Read more...]
Freshman Jeffrey Acheampong took on the role of playmaker and handled it quite well in Cate’s 7-0 Condor League boys soccer win over Ojai Valley School.Acheampong had four assists and scored a goal as the Rams improved to 9-1-1.Ema Boateng, who signed a national letter of intent with UCSB, scored the first goal off a Acheampong pass in the third minute.Three minutes later sophomore Tyler Douglas fed Acheampong who put it away. In the 10th minute, junior Justin Kim found senior … [Read more...]
The future looks bright for the UCSB men's soccer team following head coach Tim Vom Steeg's announcement of the latest additions to the 2012 roster on Wednesday.Cate School star midfielder Ema Boateng and goalkeeper Nick Savino (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown HS) have both signed National Letters of Intent with the Gauchos. Meanwhile, Vom Steeg will also add transfers Dion Acoff from Creighton, Achille Campion from Belhaven University, Javier Castro from Mt. San Antonio College, and Brandon … [Read more...]
Avery Schwartz's two goals were only half of Oak Park's problems on Friday as Division-7 No. 1 Cate recorded a 4-2 result over the Eagles in a non-league boys soccer game.The Rams' senior captain scored the first and third goals for Cate, which took a 4-0 lead before coughing up two quick scores to end the game.Shuta Kobayashi assist to Ema Boateng accounted for another Cate goal, and Mathew Firestone's throw-in bounced off an Oak Park defender and into the goal for another.One of … [Read more...]
Junior captain Ema Boateng celebrated his 18th birthday by tallying four goals and an assist in Cate's 6-0 romp over visiting Coast Union in a non-league boys soccer match on Tuesday.Boateng got things going in the seventh minute with a goal off a free kick from the top of the box.Freshman Iman Fardghassemi and junior Justin Kim assisted on the next two of Boateng's goals. The fourth goal came on a penatly kick midway through the second half.Just minutes later sophomore Shuta … [Read more...]
