CIF Playoffs

Championship Games:

Division 1
JSerra (#2) vs Mater Dei(#16) Saturday@2:30pm
#1 vs #2 from Trinity League. JS won first meeting 3-1 handing MD their sole loss for the season...the teams tied 0-0 in their second match.
Hopefully no banners get shredded...Jserra really dominated Trinity League tho...17GF and 2Ga...in contrast, MD scored 9 goals and gave up 4 goals...

Division 2
La Mirada (#8) vs Moorpark (#1) Saturday@7:30pm
Clash of the undefeateds...La Mirada scored 52 goals and only gave up 2 goals all season...Moorpark scored 26 and gave up 5...

Division 3
South Torrance (#2) vs Claremont (#3) Saturday@Noon
South Torrance is a prolific scorer...had a 13 game winning streak...

Division 4
Brentwood (#2) vs Sierra Canyon (#1) Saturday@9:30am
Teams defeated each other once each during the season..Sierra Canyon is the defending champ...finished with identical record in league play...PK's...

Division 5
Viewpoint (#1) vs Crean Lutheran (#15) Friday@5:00pm
Viewpoint's potent offense vs Crean Lutheran's stout goalie (3 goals against all season)

Division 6
Grace Bretheren (#1) vs Valley Christian (Cerritos) (#3)
Grace Brehteren won the higher regular conference in Division 5 finishing ahead of Crean Lutheran above

Division 7
San Gabriel (#2) vs Pacific (#15)
Pacific has scored at least 2 goals in each playoff game.
 
NoGoal said:
Sierra Canyon (private school) is the best HS team I have watched play this year and my DDs team played 4 Baseline League D1 non-league schools in Etiwanda, Upland, Los Osos and Rancho. They're are coached by Kristy Walker the 98/99 and 99 Real SoCal ECNL coach. They play like a top club team.

They will go deep in CIF Regional playoffs.
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Like I posted....Sierra Canyon HS is the real deal....won D4 CIF. I wouldn't be surprised, if they win their Regional bracket next. I would love to see them play the winner of Mater Dei and J Serra in the D1 bracket. SoCal Blues ECNL players eerrr JSerra vs RSC ECNL players eerrr Sierra Canyon.
 
NoGoal said:
Like I posted....Sierra Canyon HS is the real deal....won D4 CIF. I wouldn't be surprised, if they win their Regional bracket next. I would love to see them play the winner of Mater Dei and J Serra in the D1 bracket. SoCal Blues ECNL players eerrr JSerra vs RSC ECNL players eerrr Sierra Canyon.
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NG, just noting...Sierra Canyon did take losses to Brentwood and Viewpoint and tied Winward during league play...Also, does anyone know the set up for the next level of CIF post season ??
 
soccerobserver said:
NG, just noting...Sierra Canyon did take losses to Brentwood and Viewpoint and tied Winward during league play...Also, does anyone know the set up for the next level of CIF post season ??
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I hear yeah. Sure they are beatable, but they knock the ball nicely and play FAST unlike many HS teams. When my DDs school lost to Sierra Canyon 0-1 in the Qtrs. Her coaches game plan was bunker and counter the entire game and get to PKs. The ingredient besting them will be a team with a stingy defense and a blazing forward who can finish on the counter attack.

Kristy Walker is a strong coach. Look at her RSC 98/99 and 99 ECNL team records.
 
NoGoal said:
I hear yeah. Sure they are beatable, but they knock the ball nicely and play FAST unlike many HS teams. When my DDs school lost to Sierra Canyon 0-1 in the Qtrs. Her coaches game plan was bunker and counter the entire game and get to PKs. The ingredient besting them will be a team with a stingy defense and a blazing forward who can finish on the counter attack.

Kristy Walker is a strong coach. Look at her RSC 98/99 and 99 ECNL team records.
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Both of her ECNL teams are in 2nd place in the U17 and U18 bracket and her HS team won CIF. I think her team also won CIF 2 years ago. Tells me if she has talent to work with, she knows how to win with them. Maybe April Heinrich should consider Kristy Walker to replace BJ Snow or Michelle French as head coach for the U17 or U20 YNT teams.
 
I wonder if GB will let his team talk to the press now...they certainly deserve a little public glory. Congrats JSerra
 
gkrent said:
I wonder if GB will let his team talk to the press now...they certainly deserve a little public glory. Congrats JSerra
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Must be nice for these Catholic Schools handing out free tuition and forming stacked sports teams.
 
NoGoal said:
Both of her ECNL teams are in 2nd place in the U17 and U18 bracket and her HS team won CIF. I think her team also won CIF 2 years ago. Tells me if she has talent to work with, she knows how to win with them. Maybe April Heinrich should consider Kristy Walker to replace BJ Snow or Michelle French as head coach for the U17 or U20 YNT teams.
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She's so for-real (no pun intended)....Prior to her college play at Westmont in SB, she cycled her youth under the tutlaege of Tad Bobak (interestingly, her teams play similar style to his).
She and her top teams are the legit and I agree w/u NG, it be really cool to see what she could do with a squad of YNT talent/players.
 
NoGoal said:
Must be nice for these Catholic Schools handing out free tuition and forming stacked sports teams.
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That crap used to happen in San Diego section until they revamped the divisiond and formed an open division consisting of the top 8 teams. Now the scholarship/tuition assistance schools have to play against the good large schools. Definite added some equality to the post season.
 
Soccer43 said:
yes, any coach should be able to win CIF if you have 10-12 ECNL players on your team - nothing to brag about.
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Sure it is, tell that to Stanford with a team full of YNT starters, tell that to the U17 and U20 YNT coaches, tell that to Steve Kerr last year in the NBA finals after being up 3-1 with 3 all-star players and the current MVP, tell that to the Atlanta Falcons with a 20+ lead in the 2nd half....I'm sure you get the point! Winning is NOT guaranteed.
 
Zerodenero said:
She's so for-real (no pun intended)....Prior to her college play at Westmont in SB, she cycled her youth under the tutlaege of Tad Bobak (interestingly, her teams play similar style to his).
She and her top teams are the legit and I agree w/u NG, it be really cool to see what she could do with a squad of YNT talent/players.
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Ah, no wonder her teams play possession soccer. I think her bio also stated she was an assist coach at Pepperdine too. Getting a better idea who helped mold her style if play.
 
NoGoal said:
Both of her ECNL teams are in 2nd place in the U17 and U18 bracket and her HS team won CIF. I think her team also won CIF 2 years ago. Tells me if she has talent to work with, she knows how to win with them. Maybe April Heinrich should consider Kristy Walker to replace BJ Snow or Michelle French as head coach for the U17 or U20 YNT teams.
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I agree with the sentiment of this post, but I'd like to add that removing April Heinrich would be the first step in getting our US YNT pool on the road to playing better soccer.

Given the talent we have, and the jump start over all other nations with regards to women's soccer, our WNT plays some shocking stuff.
 
Soccer43 said:
yes, any coach should be able to win CIF if you have 10-12 ECNL players on your team - nothing to brag about.
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S43 there are several HS teams stacked w club players who got knocked out in the first and second round and who have parents who are fuming...in contrast to those losers, KW gets it done consistently...and with her club teams she has had success over many many years not just her recent club teams...

I know of one arrogant HS w great club players where the coach's excuse was "well you know, we just peaked too early"...yeah right...
 
soccerobserver said:
S43 there are several HS teams stacked w club players who got knocked out in the first and second round and who have parents who are fuming...in contrast to those losers, KW gets it done consistently...and with her club teams she has had success over many many years not just her recent club teams...

I know of one arrogant HS w great club players where the coach's excuse was "well you know, we just peaked too early"...yeah right...
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OMG, LMAO, peaked to early on a HS soccer team... with only 3-4 months playing together. More like never peaked at all.
 
soccerobserver said:
S43 there are several HS teams stacked w club players who got knocked out in the first and second round and who have parents who are fuming...in contrast to those losers, KW gets it done consistently...and with her club teams she has had success over many many years not just her recent club teams...

I know of one arrogant HS w great club players where the coach's excuse was "well you know, we just peaked too early"...yeah right...
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wasn't talking about great club players, talking about ECNL players. Which high school teams that got knocked out are stacked with 10-12 ECNL players? I know Moorpark, Mater dei and JSerra are also stacked with ECNL players and they all made it to finals or won. It is a well known fact in the soccer community that Real cuts players and recruits from outside to build teams - don't develop their own players. Would be curious to see coaches take on public high school teams and build the program. That would be impressive about coaching abilities - to have a championship team year after year without the ability to recruit players.
 
Troy got to the quarters with 2 ECNL players, one senior (going to Carnegie Melon) and one junior (the last from the Blues g98 team, going to UNLV) if I am not mistaken. They took Mater Dei into OT and had Westlake on their heels the entire game that looked good on paper as it went to OT and detroyed Foothill 3-0. Coaching was the biggest difference.
 
Bdobyns said:
Troy got to the quarters with 2 ECNL players, one senior (going to Carnegie Melon) and one junior (the last from the Blues g98 team, going to UNLV) if I am not mistaken. They took Mater Dei into OT and had Westlake on their heels the entire game that looked good on paper as it went to OT and detroyed Foothill 3-0. Coaching was the biggest difference.
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I agree, I'm sure we can all name stacked teams who never won anything in our DDs decade of club soccer. A teams roster being equal on paper...the difference is the coach on the sidelines.

By the way, I nailed D4 Sierra Canyon!
 
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