Islander Girls Win in Soccer Regionals; Boys Fall

Cassie Callahan and Mallory Mitchell scored first-half goals to erase a 1-0 deficit and the Coronado girls soccer team hung on to win its quarterfinal game 2-1 over Palos Verdes in Monday's Division II quarterfinals of the Southern California Regional Soccer Championships.

The Islanders boys team had to travel to Claremont High near Pomona and lost to the Wolfpack 1-0 when Claremont's Hugo Lepe scored a golden goal with less than two minutes remaining in a 15-minute overtime for a 1-0 decision. That ends the Islanders season at 24-2.

Palos Verdes (23-5-3) scored in the fifth minute for a 1-0 lead, but Callahan converted in the eighth minute to quickly tie the game and Mitchell put in what proved to be the game-winner in the 20th minute.

The fourth-seeded Islanders (13-6-4) now will travel to Orange County to take on top-seeded Santa Margarita in Wednesday's semifinals.

The eight-seeded boys team was several minutes from a penalty-kick shootout when top seeded Claremont (22-1-5) managed to find the net.

"We were hoping for a shootout," Coronado coach Brian Hiatt-Aleu told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. "We've got a pretty good goalie and some good shooters so we liked our chances. They were a little fresher than us and they kept knocking on the door in overtime and finally got one."

With only one loss going in, Hiatt-Aleu and his team felt the eight seed when the Islanders were moved up to Division II was a slight.

"If we're the eighth seed, I think that says a lot about the quality of soccer in Southern California," he told the paper. "Going to overtime with the No. 1 seed I think proves that they didn't get our seeding right."