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Conventional wisdom has always said that fifth sets in volleyball and penalty-kick decisions in soccer are basically coin-flips. <\/span>Well, if that’s the case, then the Bruins must be counting themselves pretty lucky after a second consecutive penalty-kicks win gives them the Mater Dei Invitational title, this one 1-1 (4-3) over Aliso Niguel.<\/p>\n Of course, a goalkeeper like Breegan Saller doesn’t exactly hurt your odds\u2014she saved a PK goal in the Bruins’ penalty-kicks semifinal win over Los Al, and she saved two on Monday against Aliso Niguel. <\/span>“She was on fire tonight,” said Wilson coach Jason Kirkwood of his ‘keeper, who was also named the tournament’s MVP.<\/p>\n Aliso scored first, on a corner kick in the 25th minute\u2014in the waning seconds of the first half, however, Wilson got the equalizer when Kim Marshall dug up a loose ball and launched a 30-yard cannon shot that went upper shelf to the corner. <\/span>Wilson controlled possession fairly well in the second, limiting Aliso’s chances to free kicks and corners, and Saller ensured the PK win after injuries cut short the overtime period.<\/p>\n “It’s a good, team-building tournament win,” said Kirkwood, who utilized his entire roster at some point during the tournament. <\/span>The Bruins outscored their competition 9-5, and will now take a week off before playing Newport Harbor in the Excalibur Tournament next Monday. <\/span>Kirkwood said his group of seniors have accomplished essentially all of the goals they set as a unit over the last two years, save hoisting the Excalibur sword, so the competition is sure to be intense\u2014stay tuned for updates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With a second-consecutive penalty-kicks win, the Bruins sweep the Invitational to keep their momentum rolling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"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-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","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=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}