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Smackers win Region 143 girls’ crown

The Surf City Smackers followed up their regular season championship

Saturday by winning the AYSO Region 143 girls’ Under-10 Division title by

virtue of a 3-1 victory over the Green & Gold Machine.

Lindsay Mangan scored on a second-quarter breakaway, and Amy Nunez

scored in the second half to put the Smackers (9-1-2 during the regular

season) on top, 2-0, heading into the fourth period. There, Green &

Yellow Machine’s Amy Valdez scored to make it a 2-1 game, but Nunez

scored later in the period to put the game away.

Andrea Gonzalez and Jenna Minton led a strong defensive effort from a

unit consisting of Allison Default, Missy Murphy, Elizabeth Novotny,

Katie Brewster, Brittany Fuller, Hayley Lorenz, Alyssa Jones, and goalies

Dufault and Breanna Flynn.

Kelsey Weston, Mia Sanderson, Miranda Rosen, and Kimya Jafroudi paced

the Green & Yellow Machine on defense, and Heidi Chappell, Caitlin

Boehne, and Valdez led the offense.

In other action:

RUSH REACHES FINAL FOUR

Orange Coast United Rush girls’ Under-12 soccer club reached the

semifinals of the Coast Soccer League Cup Tournament in San Bernardino by

defeating the Chino Hills Nitemares and Redlands Arsenal Soccer Club by

identical 1-0 scores Saturday. Cindy Mendoza scored off a Courtney

Anderson assist in the Chino Hills match, and Robin Ibbetson scored off a

Brittany Koster feed against Redlands.

At Sunday’s Final Four, OCU dropped a 1-0 decision to the SoCal Blues

Gold team. During the League Cup tournament, the Rush received

outstanding defensive play from goalie Tori Rocke, Elyse VanLeer, Amanda

Shaw, Jennifer Powell, Brianna Baker, and Chelsea Wisdom. Offensive

support was provided by Amy Staudinger, Samantha Castillo, Sasha Key, Ali

Torres and Jaque Anderson.

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