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Brayden Le scored the Gladiators’ first four
goals before the Cobra Kai answered with
three consecutive goals. Caleb Rakness broke
the streak and extended the Gladiators lead to
5-3. Rakness scored two more goals that were
assisted by Brayden Le for a 7-3 lead. Cobra
Kai’s Tyler McCaverty scored off a face-off
pass from Waverly Gaudet to close the gap to
7-4. The Gladiators would tag on two more
goals, and Cobra Kai’s Leo Toivanen would
score the final goal and make it 9-5.
Wyld Stalyins Hold on for
Gold Title (12-17-year-olds)
The Gold Division game between the favored
Wyld Stalyns and the Fantams was closer than
the final 8-4 score indicated. It looked as if the
Wyld Stalyns would run away with the game
based on the face-off. Lincoln Brown won the
face-off, gathered the puck, and raced in to score
the Wyld Stalyns first goal. Andrew Paxon gave
his team a 2-0 lead with a goal from a score
inside. Just when it looked like a run-away,
Kendra Kehl gave the Fantams hope when
she took a pass from Byron Garcia-Saucedo
and fired a powerful forehand into the back
of the net to cut the deficit to 2-1. With time
winding down in the first half, Lincoln Brown
scored her second of three goals.
In the second half, Donovan Finney extended
the Wyld Stalyins lead to 4-1. Kimberly
Kehl responded with a goal on an assist
from Kendra Kehl to make it 4-2. The Wyld
Stalyins responded with goals from Mitchell
Dawes and Donovan Finney to make it 6-2.
In the closing minutes of the game, Byron
Garcia-Saucedo scored on an assist from
Aiden Smith to cut the Fantams’ deficit to
7-4 before Lincoln Brown sealed the victory
with her third goal for the Wyld Satlyins and
their 8-4 championship win.
Lady Eagles Water Polo Advances
to CIF Semi-finals
Not since the 2008 Eagles won the program’s
first CIF title have they advanced to
the CIF Southern Section semi-finals. With
wins against Royal, Carpentaria, and Villanova
Prep, the top-seeded Eagles (24-4) advanced to
yesterday’s CIF-SS Division IV match against
Trabuco Hills (14-3).
In the first round, El Segundo blew out Royal
16-3. Emmie Ramirez led her team with five
goals, while Alyssa Mullane had three goals,
two steals, and an assist. The Highlanders had
no answer for the pace the Eagles played or
their transition. In the second round, El Segundo
raced to an 8-0 lead in route to an easy
15-3 victory over the Carpentaria Warriors. El
Segundo’s counterattack was too much for
the Warriors and the Eagles took advantage
early. In the first quarter, four different players
scored, including Nicole Alpert, Emmie
Ramirez, Evelyn Hale and Alyssa Mullane.
The Eagles stretched their lead to 10-2 at
halftime and rolled to an easy win over a team
that hadn’t given up double-digit goals all
season long.
El Segundo traveled to Ojai to face Villanova
Prep in the quarter-finals. In a physical matchup,
the Eagles overcame adversity and defeated
the Wildcats 14-8. It was a close game in the
first half when Avary Torres scored back-toback
goals to tie the game at 4-4. Emmie
Ramirez found Stephanie Rodriguez for the
go-ahead goal, and then Ramirez scored the
closeout of the first quarter and a 6-4 lead. In
the third quarter, each team’s goalkeeper, El
Segundo’s Kendall Donahue, and Villanova’s
Ida Tully-Giles put on a clinic blocking shot
after shot that resulted in the only goal made
Rodriquez give the Eagles an 11-7 lead. To
help seal the win Cherly Felix’s steal and the
subsequent score by Sally Gonzales gave the
Eagles a 13-7 lead. Mullane had notched the
final score and propelled the Eagles into the
The Wyld Stalyins were the top team in the Gold Division.
Avary Torres scores the tying first-period goal in El Segundo’s 14-8
win over Villanova Prep.
CIF-SS semi-finals against Trabuco Hills. A
win would send them to the finals on Saturday
at 11:30 a.m.
Soccer Girls Survive Close
Match in CIF Opener
The El Segundo girls’ soccer team, the
defending CIF Southern Section champions,
opened up their defense of their miraculous
2021 season.
During their run to the crown last year, they
played in three overtime games, so they started
their 2022 playoff run with a 2-1 overtime win
over the Yucaipa Thunderbirds.
El Segundo spotted the Thunderbirds an
early first-half penalty shot goal. The Eagles,
who hounded the goal all game long, but
were turned away, scored the equalizer on a
corner kick by Bella Munoz, who sent the
ball towards the net and headed in by Chelsie
Charles. After a scoreless first OT period, the
game went to a second overtime period. The
Eagles won it when Ciara Doggett’s attempt
went off Thunderbird goalie Rylie Bloomfield’s
leg. It was returned with a powerful kick into
the goal by Munoz, sending the Eagles into
the second round yesterday on the road at
Murrieta Mesa. Should the Eagles win, they
would play Saturday in the quarter-finals. •
Kendall Donahue had eight saves against Villanova Prep in the
CIF-Southern Section quarter-finals.
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