The Lady Matadors coasted past the Roughriders 6-0, allowing no shots on goal to remain undefeated<\/p>\n
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – The Arizona Western College Women’s Soccer team continued its dominant start to the season, shutting out Yavapai College 6-0 for their conference opener at Matador Soccer Field on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The Matadors, now 4-0 on the season, controlled possession throughout the majority of the game and did not allow a single shot on goal from the Roughriders.<\/p>\n
Former Central High standout Arianna Peraza made her mark on both ends of the field. Early in the second half, she delivered a clean slide tackle to stop a Yavapai attack. Moments later, she found the back of the net with a strike tucked into the bottom right corner, extending AWC’s lead to four.<\/p>\n
Arizona Western kept the pressure on, scoring moments later, when Valeria Ramon scored off a cross from Kiana Knudson.<\/p>\n
Later in the half, Asa Yamazaki would score her second goal of the game, and the final goal of the Matadors dominant route.<\/p>\n
Linka Ono and Kiana Knudson would round out the rest of the box score adding goals as well.<\/p>\n
Head coach Victor Verdugo praised his team\u2019s effort after the match, claiming their first couple of games helped them prepare for this conference opener.<\/p>\n
“I think it goes back to how we started off the year against a couple of D1 opponents,” Verdugo says. “If we could possess against them, once we get into conference play, the confidence is there to continue with that identity.”<\/p>\n
The Matadors will look to keep their perfect record intact as conference play rolls on this Saturday against Eastern Arizona College at 4:30 p.m. at Matador Soccer Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lady Matadors coasted past the Roughriders 6-0, allowing no shots on goal to remain undefeated YUMA, Ariz.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-133348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}