Women’s soccer win in one-sided victory Pierce defeates Valley College 5-0 for second straight win

Pierce College’s women’s soccer team won its second game in a row on Tuesday, Sept. 17 against Los Angeles Valley College by a score of 5-0. The win improves Pierce’s record 2-2-1.

The game was at Monarch Stadium and began with a strong first half from Pierce, in which they scored four goals.

The first goal for Pierce was scored by midfielder Diana Argueta. She curled in a free kick to open up the scoring.

Argueta would continue to have a good game in the midfield by once again playing offense and defense for Pierce.

Sophomore forward Shawnie Moore added to Pierce’s lead by scoring a header off of a wellplaced cross into the box.

Valley struggled to get any offense going and could not find the final ball to unravel Pierce’s defenders. Valley had two good chances to score on errors by Pierce’s defenders, but their shots were saved by freshman goalie Jenna Koziol.

The first half dragged on for halftime by curling in a goal from outside the box just before halftime.

During the second half, Valley pushed back hard, gaining better control of the ball and with far less defensive errors. The second half was back and forth. Both teams were creating chances, but neither could get the ball into the back of the net.

Although Valley put up a fight, Pierce managed to break through once again. Somers scored her second goal of the game by tapping in a cross by sophomore defender Karina Ramirez, who had pushed up in attack.

“I feel extremely happy,” Somers said after the game. “Things are starting to look bright for us.”

Valley, as freshman forward Michelle Somers added another goal. Somers recovered the ball after a bad pass back to a defender and slotted the ball past the keeper to make it 3-0.

The goals would not end there.

Freshman midfielder Maria Gutierrez made it 4-0 before

Valley’s head coach, Greg Venger, stated the team’s goal had been to control Pierce’s midfield and force the weaker players to match up against its strongest players.

“I thought we played much better the second half,” Venger said.

This second win seems to have raised the morale of Pierce as a whole, as the coach and team alike were smiling and exchanging happy banter with each other after the game.

Pierce’s head coach, Adolfo Perez, says this win was great for the team’s recruiting purposes and believes the team has made tremendous progress.

“This is the most goals we’ve made all year,” Perez said.

Pierce players and coaches agree this win helped the team.

“Our energy helped us play as a team,” Arguete said. “It gave us confidence.”

Pierce will hope to continue this run of form, but it will be difficult as they take on the current nationally top-ranked women’s soccer team of Cerritos College.

“We’re looking forward to playing the number one team,” Somers said. The game will be on Friday, Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. at The Pit at Pierce.

“Fortunately we have a supportive family who can’t wait to see us play and are actually coming to our Ohio state game,” Tyree said.

In hopes of making it big in football, both Tyree and Tyrin know that everything requires dedication and a little bit of elbow grease.

“Everything big starts out small,” Tyrin said.

Tyree won’t let anyone tell him there’s anything he can’t do. He believes everything is possible.

“Dreams really do come true,” Tyree said.

The twins are red-shirting sophomores and are not on the active roster for the Pierce football team, however you can see their older brother Tre, 21, play for the Brahmas at their next game on Saturday on the road against L.A. Southwest College.

Women’s volleyball drops sixth game while on the road Pierce loses to Citrus College droping overall record to 2-6

Castro Roundup Reporter

The Pierce College Woman’s Volleyball team lost 1-3 against Citrus College on the road Tuesday night.

Head coach Shin Jung of Citrus College said that his team needed to be cautious when going up against Pierce College on Tuesday night.

“We need to be consistent,” Jung said. “Pierce is a dangerous opponent, we can’t give them a window to beat us.”

Jung added onto his comment saying that the team needed to worry about itself limiting its miscues: serving, digging more balls in the back row and making less hitting errors.

The game started off in Pierce’s favor taking the first match with 2520 score getting 12 kills compared to Citrus College’s eight kills. Most of the other points from the match were earned by attack errors.

The second set of the night was won by Citrus College 25-18, where 11 points were made on attacking errors by Pierce.

However in the third set Citrus College was able to get 12 kills for a 25-21 win to take the lead 2-1.

The final set of the night went to Citrus College 25-22 with 14 kills where both sophomore Ana Bui and freshman Danielle Hundley, helped seal the victory getting five kills each in the last set.

Bui and Hundle led the offense for Citrus College combining for 26 out 40 kills for the team.

Jung said his team is still trying to find it’s ground this season.

“We’ve been doing ok. We’ve had our ups and downs, but we’re still trying to find our identity,” Jung said.

Jung also said that their serving was able to make up for their hitting and receiving through out the game.

-Shin Jung Head Coach of Citrus College

Nabil Mardini, head coach of the Pierce woman’s volleyball team, had a few positive and comments about his team’s performance that night.

“Offensively, we did better,” Mardini said. “We didn’t dig the ball too often, our setting needs more work; we need to make more kills.”

Sophomore Kira Guarino led the offense for Pierce College with 13 kills while freshman Savannah Loutzehiser grabbed 21 digs throughout the game.

Mardini continued on, saying that his team would be able to benefit from some mental focus for the team’s next game against at the Pierce Invitational next weekend..

“We need to play with a little more courage; we need to play with some guts,” Mardini said.