The West Valley League boys\u2019 soccer competition has been dominated by El Camino Real and Birmingham. Both schools usually end up competing for a City title.<\/p>\n
Now Cleveland, under second-year coach Julio Chacon, is trying to disrupt the ECR-Birmingham soccer dynasty.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers enter Wednesday\u2019s league opener against El Camino Real with an 11-2 record. Anderson Carranza has 10 goals.<\/p>\n
Chacon, a Cleveland graduate, has been trying to get his team to have the confidence to compete against defending City champion El Camino Real and longtime power Birmingham.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying to build a new culture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
This is the first season in years that the City title hunt appears to be wide open. Sylmar owns a win over Birmingham and South East is 14-1-2, including a tie against Birmingham.<\/p>\n
El Camino Real is facing a big week, with games against Cleveland, then Birmingham on Friday. On Saturday, ECR passed its first test with a 5-0 win over Sylmar.<\/p>\n
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West Valley League boys\u2019 soccer competition has been dominated by El Camino Real and Birmingham. Both schools…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[164652,164653,19773,49,48,31973,164647,4850,164649,164648,5559,1112,34096,164651,561,82,164650,1213,21683],"class_list":["post-387740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-anderson-carranza","tag-big-week","tag-birmingham","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cavaliers","tag-city-soccer-title","tag-cleveland","tag-ecr","tag-el-camino-real","tag-friday","tag-game","tag-goal","tag-league-opener","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sylmar","tag-wednesday","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387740","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=387740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}