{"id":242747,"date":"2026-04-09T23:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242747\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:27:07","slug":"lake-dallas-run-to-4a-i-state-final-ends-with-loss-to-waco-lavega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242747\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Dallas&#8217; run to 4A-I state final ends with loss to Waco LaVega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Championship match MVP Angel Cervantes Calvillo scored the only goal of the state final as the\u00a0Waco LaVega Pirates ended a Cinderella run of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/lake-dallas-school\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Dallas<\/a> Falcons 1-0. The Falcons end as silver medalists in the UIL Class 4A Division 1 boys soccer state tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Unbeaten in their previous 11 matches, the Falcons used a cohesive defense led by Joeph Ob Fialos, Cooper Denehie, Wugenio Govea and Athur Bellini to shutout down the high scoring Pirates who were entering the contest averaging four goals per match in playoffs and who had scored 143 goals on the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur guys played great defense, we had several good shots on goal that did not go in, but they played hard the entire match,\u201d said Falcons coach Brendon Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Dallas allowed the goal in the 43rd minute but rallied fiercely as time ran down, putting huge pressure in the final five minutes as the Pirates collapsed eight defenders into their half of the pitch. The\u00a0LaVega goalkeeper had two saves and several deflections as the Falcons pressed the contest to the final horn.<\/p>\n<p>LaVega used a six player drop defense that stymied the Lake Dallas\u00a0offense. LaVega had four defenders back and dropped two midfielders back to offset the speed advantage of the Falcon forwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLake Dallas was certainly a lot better than their record,\u201d said LaVega coach Manuel Gibson, \u201cThey had great ball control and excellent speed, we changed up our defense to focused on cutting down they\u2019re through passes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cervantes Calvillo\u2019s solo goal came on a through pass from Dovanny Moreles after the Pirates had regained possessions following a long setup pass from Emanual Almanza.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Dallas started the season slowly, but Martin got the Falcons aligned as they entered district Lake Dallas was 1-6-5 through their first 12 matches and concluded the season with a 11-7-6 overall record winning five playoff matches by a combined 10-6 goals including a dramatic shootout win over perennial power <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/soccer\/article\/dallas-area-soccer-state-championships-results-22192245.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephenville<\/a> in the area round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Championship match MVP Angel Cervantes Calvillo scored the only goal of the state final as the\u00a0Waco LaVega Pirates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,44100,102,104,103,92870,92871],"class_list":["post-242747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-boys-soccer","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-lake-dallas-school","tag-tp-uil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}