{"id":3407,"date":"2009-08-28T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbcc-w-soccer-vikes-get-3-0-win-in-opener\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T05:16:00","slug":"lbcc-w-soccer-vikes-get-3-0-win-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbcc-w-soccer-vikes-get-3-0-win-in-opener","title":{"rendered":"LBCC W Soccer: Vikes Get 3-0 Win In Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Report by LBCC&#8217;s Chris Ruiz<\/em><span style=\"font-style:normal\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The 2009 Long Beach City College women\u2019s soccer season got off to a good start as the Vikings cruised to a 3-0 non-conference win over visiting Saddleback College on a hot and windy day at LBCC on Thursday.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Relying on a roster with just five returning sophomores, it was LBCC\u2019s freshmen that carried the offense to the win.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Freshman midfielder Lauren Ingram\u2019s pinpoint passes on through-balls earned her credit for all three assists in the contest.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Long Beach jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the sixth minute when Ingram fed freshman forward Ashlynn Bolt with a long pass to the right side. Bolt quickly placed her shot past Saddleback goalie Rachel Miles to put the Vikings on the board.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the 19<sup>th<\/sup> minute, freshman forward Michelle Mellinger came off the bench to post the Vikings\u2019 second goal. Mellinger took another great pass from Ingram and finished with a shot to the left of Miles to give LBCC the 2-0 lead.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And in the 51<sup>st<\/sup> minute, freshman forward Claudia Toledo took a breakaway pass from Ingram and easily scored after beating backup Saddleback goalkeeper Kim Goupille on a one-on-one to close out the scoring.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">LBCC freshman goalie Sara Thatcher posted five saves in earning the shutout.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For Saddleback (0-1), Miles posted one first-half save and Goupille had a pair of saves in the second.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Long Beach (1-0) returns to action on Tuesday when it travels to Moorpark College for a 3pm non-conference game.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vikings got Fall started right on a hot Summer day, topping Saddleback 3-0.<\/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-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","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=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}