{"id":1986,"date":"2010-02-25T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/cif-girls-soccer-poly-has-growing-pains-in-loss\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T06:36:00","slug":"cif-girls-soccer-poly-has-growing-pains-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/cif-girls-soccer-poly-has-growing-pains-in-loss","title":{"rendered":"CIF Girls’ Soccer: Poly Has Growing Pains In Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Photo of Dominguez by Matthew Sanger<\/em><\/p>\n

A young Jackrabbits girls’ soccer team took their lumps in a home loss to Capistrano Valley, 3-0, in the second round of the CIF playoffs\u2014but with just three graduating starters, the future was already looking bright just moments after a grey-skied loss.<\/p>\n

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The Cougars needed all of three minutes and ten seconds to put Poly in a hole, when Jordan Marada turned one from the right elbow, crossing it to the far post beyond the reach of Poly keeper Corrin Villasenor.  <\/span>The Rabbits played their best soccer of the day in the ensuing twenty minutes, pushing (perhaps too hard on the finishes) to get the equalizer.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Ebonie Buenrostro, who was excellent down the lines all game, put a free kick into the box, where freshman Celeste Dominguez got a clean look at it\u2014but the ball hit the underside of the Cougars’ crossbar and bounced straight down.  <\/span>In the 20th minute, Megan Brock had a free kick in striking distance, but the ball sailed high.  <\/span>Then when Buenrostro took the ball off a corner, she got a clean strike on it\u2026only to have it sail high.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

“For 15 or 20 minutes, I thought we were very threatening,” said Collins.  <\/span>“Unfortunately, it took 1-0 to wake us up.”<\/o:p><\/p>\n

A through ball was played perfectly by Candice Uhl in the 35th minute, who poked it past Villasenor, deflating the big Poly crowd, and the young Poly roster.  <\/span>The wind seemed to go out of the Rabbits after that, and when the rain started falling at halftime, things seemed to go further downhill.  <\/span>The second half was very sloppy, as Poly struggled to clear the ball, to connect passes, and to put themselves in scoring position.  <\/span>“We went into panic mode way too early in the second half,” said Collins.  <\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

Cynthia Dimnik scored in the final moments of the game to put the exclamation point on it.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

On offense, Poly definitely struggled with the loss of Jazmine Rhodes, the senior going to Cincinatti.  <\/span>Sidelined by a pair of yellows in the first round, Rhodes admitted it was a frustrating experience spending her final game for Poly on the bench.  <\/span>“I’m not used to just watching like that,” she said.  <\/span>Rhodes has been the glue on the offensive end, and despite a solid performance from Dominguez, the Rabbits looked a little lost without her.  <\/span>“She has a swagger,” said Collins.  <\/span>“She finds a way to pull the young players with her\u2014that’s what we missed.”<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The bright side for Poly is that while Rhodes, Megan and Jessica Brock, and Keyana Thompson-Shaw are graduating, a whole host of talent returns, including both goalkeepers, Buenrostro, Dominguez, Alexis Leyba, and Elliott Gentile, among others.  <\/span>It will be another talented group to contend with\u2014and if Collins gets her way, the hard defeat at home will help them.  <\/span>“We’re just going to soak it in, so we can not repeat it.  <\/span>You have to acknowledge what it is, and face it, to make sure it’s not repeated.”  <\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

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The young Rabbits squad took their lumps in a 3-0 home loss to Capistrano Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":16904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}