Ca\u00f1ada College Colts men\u2019s soccer put an end to the Skyline College Trojans\u2019 season with 3-0 victory in the third round of regionals at Ca\u00f1ada on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The game was d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu for the Trojans, as their previous matchup with the Colts ended with the same score on the same field: a 3-0 loss at Ca\u00f1ada.<\/p>\n
The Trojans were most competitive during the first 20 minutes of the match, with multiple missed shots on goal. Skyline freshman forward Ethan Jimenez Flamenco had a major missed shot on the goal that came close to going in the goal in the 19th minute. Just six minutes later, Ca\u00f1ada scored its first goal in the 25th minute.<\/p>\n
Skyline head coach Gabe Saucedo said the main cause of Skyline\u2019s loss was its missed opportunities early on to score goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the first 20 minutes we were really good, it just wasn\u2019t our day,\u201d Saucedo said. \u201cWe hit two balls off the [goal] post, and we missed a couple pretty easy goals, and that was a difference in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Colts received first-half goals from midfielders Chris Lopez and Josh Ramos, then capped the match off with a goal from forward Dylan Antunovich in the 59th minute of the game.<\/p>\n
Flamenco said Skyline failed to capitalize on its chances to score and credited Ca\u00f1ada in the matchup for playing better soccer to complete the victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you don\u2019t capitalize\u2026 that means you\u2019re not the better team and at the end of the day Ca\u00f1ada capitalized,\u201d Flamenco said. \u201cI do feel like maybe we could have done better on our part, being more prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saucedo said that, going into the matchup, he was confident in the group\u2019s ability to cause an upset against Ca\u00f1ada who ranked No. 5 in state.<\/p>\n
Skyline assistant head coach Mike Sharabi said the team created enough chances to change the outcome, but missed crucial follow-up opportunities throughout the game that made a difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had two or three chances that should have been goals, we hit the [goal] post twice, [and] we just weren\u2019t there for the follow ups,\u201d Sharabi said. \u201cIt was really just in\u2026 the final third, we weren\u2019t good enough in the box.\u201d<\/p>\n
The game was physical from start to finish, with Skyline picking up four yellow cards and Ca\u00f1ada receiving three. Tensions peaked near the end when Ca\u00f1ada freshman midfielder Mikel Gonzalez was given a red card for shoving a Skyline player.<\/p>\n
While the matchup was a cross-district rivalry game, Flamenco said it had no effect on the intensity either team brought to the playoff game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cRivalry or not, it should not matter,\u201d Flamenco said. \u201cYou should always go into the game with the mentality of, we want to win, you should never fear your opponents, you should always be prepared and we lacked preparation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saucedo said while the loss was disappointing, he was proud of how the Trojans played for each other this season and appreciated the successes the team had overall.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe guys really came together about halfway through the season, and really started caring for each other, working hard for each other, playing hard for each other, so I\u2019m just really happy with that,\u201d Saucedo said.<\/p>\n
The Trojans finished the season with a 13-5-5 record and went 2-1 in the regional playoffs, including an upset of the No. 4 seed Cosumnes River College in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ca\u00f1ada College Colts men\u2019s soccer put an end to the Skyline College Trojans\u2019 season with 3-0 victory in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-322053","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\/322053","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=322053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}