Girls Open results 2-22-17
1 Poway 4
8 Pt Loma 1
2 Torrey Pines 2
7 Rancho Bernardo 1
3 San Marcos 2
6 Carlsbad 1
4 Cathedral Catholic 1
5 Steele Canyon 2
I fought off my cold long enough to work the scoreboard for the Poway-Pt Loma game. The 4-1 score doesn't tell how close the game was. Poway didn't get the second goal until well into the second half. For most of the game, Pt Loma ruled the midfield, stealing passes and making plays up to the penalty area, where they shot long and wide. They only had one clean close shot, and the shooter put it right into the keeper's hands. Poway scored on quick strikes - a 20-yard free kick save and rebound, a 40-yard free kick redirected as it came down to the ground, and then two nice combinations that found an open player up close. Pt Loma's lone goal came after the 2-minute clock shutdown - a long high shot that just cleared under the crossbar.
The press box where I work these games is on the visitor side for soccer (home side for all other sports, I think) so I get to listen to and talk to visiting parents. At a recent Palomar League game (I won't be more specific than that), one parent was so loudly obnoxious that the other parents started yelling at him that he was an embarrassment. The Pt Loma group was cool, though - a result of beach life?