Varsity Girls Soccer

BREAKING FREE -- Jaguar Tania Landivar leaves defenders scattered in her wake. Carlos Paredes, Cooperative

Jaguars overwhelm Griffins, 9-1

The Cooperative girls varsity soccer team exploded for six second half goals en route to a 9-1 victory over International Tuesday afternoon at Cooperative.
Eighth grader Tania Landivar, already atop the list of top scorers, notched four more goals in the game, to give her a total of eight for the season. Darinka Matkovic, a senior, scored three times for the Jaguars, and freshman Fernanda Vaca Diez, added two more. But perhaps the most interesting thing about the game was that International led 1-0 for most of the first half, and it seemed as if an upset of the defending league champion Jaguars in the making.

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READY, AIM, . . . . -- Jaguar Darinka Matkovic prepares to fire on Griffin goal.

Jonatan Muñoz, International

The International goal came on an unlikely series of events. A Jaguar free kick that was supposed to clear the ball upfield bounced instead off Fabiana Murillo right where the word "GRIFFINS" was emblazoned across her shorts, and caromed into the center of the field.
The Griffin offense got off a series of shots, and junior Mariana Chavez finally put the ball into the goal for International.
The half was nearly ending by the time Vaca Diez corraled a rebound and scored to tie the game at 1-1. But there was enough time left for the female Jaguars to knock in two more goals as they suddenly seemed to find the range.
Tania Landivar broke through the Griffin defense to make it two to one, then teamed up with Vaca Diez to make it 3-1. For the third goal, Landivar got off a crossing shot that Vaca Diez headed into the goal.
In the second half the Jaguars poured it on, coming downfield time and again like a gathering storm, with Matkovic and Landivar breaking loose at the end to put the ball into the goal, sometimes with an artful assist from Vaca Diez.
Meanwhile the Jaguar defense stiffened and kept the ball mainly in the Griffins' half of the field.
When the smoke cleared the Jaguars had won, 9-1.

Eagles eke out 1-0 win over Knights

Eighth grader Lindsey Kehler cut loose a long hard shot from midfield near the end of the game to break a scoreless tie and give the Christian Learning girls varsity soccer team a 1-0 win over Cambridge Tuesday.
Kehler, who was listed as a junior varsity player on the pre-season roster, caught Cambridge goalie Raquel Lopez coming too far out of her goal. Kehler was playing defense at the time. Frustrated Cambridge coach Karla Ross summed it up: "My goalie made a mistake and a little Christian Learning girl hit it hard."
Up to that point the two teams had battled evenly in a game that was played on the International field because Christian Learning's is too wet to play on, and Cambridge doesn't a have a field that meets league regulations.
Cambridge, in fact, had an edge in corner kicks, and narrowly missed a goal on a free kick by Camila Johnson.