{"id":135712,"date":"2026-01-16T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135712\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:16:08","slug":"patrick-henry-rallies-to-beat-coronado-in-girls-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135712\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Henry rallies to beat Coronado in girls soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last season, Patrick Henry High School\u2019s girls soccer program captured its first-ever CIF San Diego Section Division 1 title.<\/p>\n

Returning a bevy of key starters for the 2025-2026 season, expectations for this year\u2019s edition of the Patriots were sky high.<\/p>\n

On Thursday night, they continued to meet \u2014 if not exceed \u2014 those expectations. The Patriots\u2019 3-1 win over Western League foe Coronado improved Henry to 7-2-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur job is to win the week, and that right there was winning the week,\u201d said Patrick Henry coach Jason Renfro.<\/p>\n

For the first 30 minutes of Thursday night\u2019s match, Patrick was in complete control. She logged shots on goal in the 13th, 20th, and 23rd minutes while also earning five corner kicks and two free kicks.<\/p>\n

Despite the dominant early showing, Coronado would be the one to draw first blood.<\/p>\n

In the 29th minute, Sydney Dunn picked a steal from 21 yards outside of the goal. She dished to Breck Dunn, who buried a shot into the top-left corner, giving Coronado the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just the game of soccer. You dominate, dominate, dominate and then they get one chance and score and we found ourselves down early,\u201d Renfro said.<\/p>\n

Henry found the equalizer just before halftime. In the 38th minute, Aleda Urbina converted from short range after Islanders goalkeeper Haleigh Steele lost control of the ball following a diving save attempt.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting that goal before the half certainly gave us a lift,\u201d Renfro said.<\/p>\n

\"Coroando'sCoroando\u2019s Kalista Searles and Patrick Henry\u2019s Aleda Urbina run for the ball during their match at Coronado High School on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026 in Coronado, California. (Meg McLaughlin \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n

Patrick Henry continued to push numbers forward and test the Islanders\u2019 back line in the second half. While the Islanders\u2019 defense managed to weather the storm in the first, they\u2019d be unable to in the second.<\/p>\n

In the 57th minute, Emma Cunningham drove down the far wing. The junior then rifled a cross towards the near post, where a cutting Annabel Grentz headed it into the bottom-right corner, handing the Patriots the 2-1 advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmma played a perfect ball to where I didn\u2019t even have to move, and I just tapped it in,\u201d said Grentz. \u201cThat\u2019s just a typical Emma play. She delivers beautiful balls every time. She\u2019s one of my favorite 10s I\u2019ve ever played with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just four minutes later, Henry struck again. From 22 yards out, Keira Arce found Jasmine Singletary forward in space. The junior pivoted and fired a shot from 17 yards out and into the left corner of the net, making it a 3-1 game and putting the match on ice.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoronado is never an easy field for us. It\u2019s either foggy, stormy, or wet,\u201d Renfro said. \u201cSo to get this win here, it\u2019s big for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last season, Patrick Henry High School\u2019s girls soccer program captured its first-ever CIF San Diego Section Division 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2044,181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-135712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-high-school-sports","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}