{"id":295038,"date":"2025-11-20T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:04:07","slug":"skyline-mens-soccer-defeats-chabot-3-2-in-first-round-of-regional-playoffs-the-skyline-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295038\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyline men\u2019s soccer defeats Chabot 3-2 in first round of regional playoffs \u2013 The Skyline View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skyline men\u2019s soccer took down Chabot College in a thriller game that ended with a score of 3-2 in the first round of the regional playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half both teams scored one goal including a stunning shot by Chabot in the 25th minute, which hit the top right-hand corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the second half Skyline scored two goals by Beto Fernandez and Ethan Jimenez Flamenco that gave the team a two-point lead for 13 minutes of the second half prior to the final goal by Chabot.<\/p>\n<p>Flamenco said in the locker room before the game the team discussed the importance of effort and supporting one another through an analogy that stuck with the team throughout the game.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPiano players, they can play, but the people who move the piano for them are the most hardworking,\u201d Flamenco said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flamenco also credited the coaches for reminding the team to approach Chabot with the right mindset.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theskylineview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0161.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2898080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0161-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"305\"\/><\/a>Skyline freshman goalkeeper Matias Kramer jumps over multiple to stop Chabot from scoring on a free kick in the first half. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theskylineview.com\/staff_profile\/antonio-peeples\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Peeples<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came in thinking if we want to lose \u2018let\u2019s be cocky,\u2019\u201d Flamenco said. \u201cBut thank god to the coaches, they said \u2018you guys will win if you pretend this is the number one seed,\u2019 and we put that in our minds and it was a tough game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez said he felt happy that he got a goal in the playoffs because of the level of prominence the game had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt always means something when you\u2019re in the playoffs, so it\u2019s an honor to score a goal because not a lot of people are here, so scoring in the playoffs is always amazing,\u201d Fernandez said.<\/p>\n<p>Skyline head coach Gabe Saucedo said this was by far one of the most intense games of the season especially because it was playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a playoff game where you have to survive and advance,\u201d Saucedo said. \u201cIt just brings a little added pressure but I thought our guys handled the pressure really well, I thought they came out really good in the first half [and] I thought we had more of the ball, we had more of the chances we just needed to put some goals away and we did.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saucedo also said Skyline\u2019s main goal and focus is to win the state championship and make it to be one of the final four teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s our main goal right now is to keep winning and get to the final four, that\u2019s what we\u2019re focused on,\u201d Saucedo said.<\/p>\n<p>Skyline will play in the 2nd round of the playoffs on Saturday, November 22nd against an opponent that is to be determined.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skyline men\u2019s soccer took down Chabot College in a thriller game that ended with a score of 3-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-295038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295038","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=295038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}