Saturday\u2019s field hockey championship at the West Coast Classic featured the same two teams from 11 months ago, when Scripps Ranch took down Torrey Pines.<\/p>\n
However, Torrey Pines was able to avenge last year\u2019s loss with a 1-0 win of its own, highlighted by Izzy Adams scoring with four minutes left in regulation off the team\u2019s 15th corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels really good, especially after preparing for the whole weekend, in general, like all the hard work that we did overall as a staff, parents and players,\u201d Torrey Pines coach Courtney Kun said.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously the girls are tired. Long weekend, long day. It\u2019s hot, so it was nice to see them put one away there at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout the fourth quarter, Torrey Pines had its chances with five corners alone. That included having two near misses before Adams scored.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was great being able to rely on our corners,\u201d said Torrey Pines\u2019 Ava Hauer, who is committed to Johns Hopkins University. \u201cThis was something we\u2019ve been working on all year long. So knowing that we have most of our goals scored on corners was a big motivation for us to not only try to score but try to also earn those corners and be more productive out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Torrey Pines recorded 15 corners, Scripps Ranch had just one corner in the finale of this 16-team tournament. However, being able to defend 14 corners\u00a0 showed Torrey Pines how difficult the top competition is in San Diego.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good to play those types of teams since we know that they\u2019re always contenders,\u201d Kun said. \u201cIt\u2019s good to start off at the beginning, kind of see where we\u2019re at, and where we\u2019ve got to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
This championship came after both teams beat their league opponents, 4-0. Torrey Pines took down Avocado League foe La Costa Canyon while Scripps Ranch bested Western League foe La Jolla.<\/p>\n
As a result, it sets up the opportunity for a potential fourth meeting in the playoffs, on top of their two league matchups.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to be playing (LCC) on Senior Night,\u201d Hauer said. \u201cThis was a good motivation for us to keep working and for us to keep staying strong when we play against them.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the championship finished in one-goal fashion, the third-place game was also tight as the Vikings beat the Mavericks, 3-2, in a nine-frame shootout after the teams were tied at two after regulation.<\/p>\n
Hauer\u2019s teammate Dylan Rietti was named the tournament\u2019s top offensive player while Huntington Beach High School\u2019s Sarah Moniak and Poway\u2019s Rochelle Ruiz earned top defensive and goalie honors, respectively.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the all-tournament team were: Scripps Ranch\u2019s Sammy Ippolito, Westview\u2019s Betty Bush, Texas Hockaday\u2019s Lucia Ubinas, La Verne Bonita\u2019s Brooke Reedy, University City\u2019s Sydni Sandoval, San Pasqual\u2019s Tiana Jimenez, Eastlake\u2019s Malia McClintock, and La Costa Cany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday\u2019s field hockey championship at the West Coast Classic featured the same two teams from 11 months ago,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2044,181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-441025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-high-school-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441025","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=441025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}