{"id":99439,"date":"2025-12-18T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99439\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:48:18","slug":"long-beach-poly-boys-soccer-ties-cabrillo-in-an-intense-league-opener-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99439\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Poly boys soccer ties Cabrillo in an intense league opener \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chris Rodriquez #5 of Cabrillo kicks the ball away from Salvador Alfaro #9 of Long Beach Poly during a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

Chris Rodriguez #5 of Cabrillo competes for the ball with Salvador Alfaro #9 of Long Beach Poly in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Salvador<\/p>\n

Salvador Alfaro #9 of Long Beach Poly tangles with Cabrillo goal keeper Jose Padilla during a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

James Alonso #16 of Long Beach Poly deflects the ball in front of his goalie Jaime Hernandez while Ivan Perez #6 of Cabrillo moves toward the ball in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Miguel<\/p>\n

Miguel Ramirez #2 of Cabrillo keeps the ball away from Salvador Alfaro of Long Beach Poly during a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Long Beach Poly\u2019s Matthew Sanchez #11 congratulates teammate Benitio Quezada #18 after he scored a goal against Cabrillo in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Rey<\/p>\n

Rey Palacios #8 of Cabrillo competes for the ball with Anthony Isco #20 of Long Beach Poly in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Ivan<\/p>\n

Ivan Perez #6 of Cabrillo competes with Carlos Casillas #18 of Long Beach Poly in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Miguel<\/p>\n

Miguel Ramirez #2 of Cabrillo and Alejandro Gomes #19 of Long Beach Poly compete for the ball in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Rey<\/p>\n

Rey Palacios #8 of Cabrillo and Christopher Alvarez #13 of Long Beach Poly in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Marcel<\/p>\n

Marcel Markaryan #19 of Long Beach Poly gets past Ivan Perez #6 of Cabrillo in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Salvador<\/p>\n

Salvador Alfaro #9 of Long Beach Poly tangles with Cabrillo goal keeper Jose Padilla during a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Rey<\/p>\n

Rey Palacios #8 of Cabrillo and Joseph Lemus #12 of Long Beach Poly in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Damian<\/p>\n

Damian Gonzalez #25 of Long Beach Poly tangles with Ivan Perez #6 of Cabrillo during a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Cabrillo<\/p>\n

Cabrillo goal keeper Jose Padilla collides with Daniel Silva (#22) of Long Beach Poly in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Anthony<\/p>\n

Anthony Isco #20 of Long Beach Poly grabs the arm of a Cabrillo player during a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Anderson<\/p>\n

Anderson Trujillo #27 of Cabrillo competes for the ball with Salvador Alfaro #9 of Long Beach Poly in a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Chris Rodriquez #5 of Cabrillo kicks the ball away from Salvador Alfaro #9 of Long Beach Poly during a boys soccer game on December 17, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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LONG BEACH \u2013 The Long Beach Poly and Cabrillo boys soccer teams played to a 2-2 tie in their Moore League opener Wednesday at Poly High School.<\/p>\n

In a back-and-forth contest that saw emotions run high, where both teams were forced to come back from a goal deficit and Poly finished the game with only nine players, the Moore League soccer schedule got off to an intense start.<\/p>\n

Carlos Casillas scored both goals for Poly with assists from Matthew Sanchez and Benito Quezada.\u00a0Goalkeeper Mekiah Twal stopped six of eight shots by Cabrillo.<\/p>\n

Alan Fuentes and Dario Morales scored for Cabrillo. Nelson Beltran and Jose Padilla split goalkeeping duties and turned away a combined four of six shots by Poly.<\/p>\n

Sanchez wasted no time terrorizing the right side of the Cabrillo defense. In the first minute, Sanchez ran onto a ball on his own sideline and dribbled deep into Cabrillo territory. He gained a step on the Cabrillo defender and launched a crossing pass to Casillas, who redirected the ball past Padilla into the top corner of the goal for a 1-0lead.<\/p>\n

Cabrillo (6-3-1, 0-0-1) tied the score to start the second half when Morales pounded a loose ball from the top of the Poly 18-yard-box past a diving Twal in the 43 minute.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars took their first lead 10 minutes later when Poly\u2019s Daniel Silva was called for a hand ball in the 18-yard-box, giving Cabrillo a penalty kick. Fuentes booted a low, hard shot into the bottom right corner as Twal guessed wrong on the shot\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n

That goal gave Cabrillo a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

In the 60th minute, emotions boiled over. A shoving match broke out in the Cabrillo end of the field between the two teams resulting in two red cards for Poly (1-4-1, 0-0-1), which had to play the rest of the game down two players.<\/p>\n

Cabrillo coach Patrick Noyes wasn\u2019t surprised by the intensity of the Moore League game.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the 27 seasons I\u2019ve coached here, it\u2019s typical to have emotional games,\u201d Noyes said. \u201cThe kids all grew up with each other. I guarantee you everyone on this team knew someone on that team. They are all battling for the badge.\u201d<\/p>\n

In spite of the manpower disadvantage, a 71st minute volley from Quezada found Casillas, who deposited a shot behind Beltran to tie the score at 2-2.<\/p>\n

Casillas was proud of his team\u2019s effort in a difficult situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels great,\u201d Casillas said. \u201cHonestly, after we went two men down, we didn\u2019t have much hope. But we kept on pressing and eventually we got one. I just feel proud of the team. Just defend and wait for the counterattack and the opportunities will come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poly coach Carlos Casillas echoed that sentiment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, I\u2019m just proud of my boys,\u201d Casillas said. \u201cWith nine players, coming back and tying the game. We\u2019ll take that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morales was disappointed Cabrillo couldn\u2019t finish off Poly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could have won,\u201d Morales said. \u201cAt least we didn\u2019t lose, but we should have won playing against nine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Rodriquez #5 of Cabrillo kicks the ball away from Salvador Alfaro #9 of Long Beach Poly during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,5479,54213,2044,131,133,132,137,127],"class_list":["post-99439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-high-school-all-sports","tag-high-school-soccer","tag-high-school-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99439","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=99439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}