Soccer overtime heartbreak

Highland scored in the first half to go up 1-0, then Lakeside's Katie Baran shot into the top left of the Highland goal to tie it in the second, but the Lady Eagles lost in overtime at Lakeside Middle School this afternoon to end their 2008 state soccer run.

State soccer 1st round at LMS

The Lakeside girls soccer team plays Highland (Cowiche, WA) at Lakeside Middle School Wednesday, November 12th at 3 pm in the first round of the 2008 1A State Soccer Championships.

The first and quarter-final rounds are single elimination. Teams must advance to the semi-final round to place.

Best of luck, Lady Eagles!!

Soccer team wins district championship!

It's a team whose game schedule is barely traceable at the Spokesman-Review's prep sports site, whose coach was not even listed on the LHS athletics web site. It's a sport some Lakeside fans may not even realize is played at Lakeside High School.

Yet, according to those sources, the Lakeside High School Lady Eagles soccer team has gone from a modest 4-8-1 regular season standing (2-2 in league) to winning the District 7 Championship and busting into the 2008 Washington State Girls 1A State Championship tournament as the District 7 #1 seed.

These ladies endured tough losses against some big schools -- 0-7, 0-8, 0-8 by 4As University, Gonzaga Prep and Central Valley -- to start off the season, and then got beat by slim margins twice by NEA rival Newport (3-4, 3-5), before ending Northeast A League play with a win over Freeman 6-2. They then beat the Scotties again 5-1 in the first game of Districts, to set up a showdown with unbeaten Newport (4-0 league, 12-0 overall) for the single District 7 allocation to the 1A State Championship tournament.

According to the Spokesman-Review, the Lakeside goalie endured a blistering 19 shots on goal over the 80 minute match, while the Lady Eagles could muster only 5 on the Newport goalie.

There were no goals in the first half -- then Newport struck pay dirt at the 51:00 minute mark to go up 1-0. But Lakeside's Baran answered off a Hayes assist (no roster listing can be found on-line and no first names are listed in the score recap at the Spokesman-Review online) to knot the score 1-1 at the 57:00 mark.

With only 12 minutes to go in regulation, and the score still tied, Baran found the net again off a Dezihan assist to give the Eagles a 2-1 lead. No information on how may of those 19 shots-on-goal the Lakeside goalie had to endure over those final 12 minutes, but one could presume the unbeaten Grizzlies were not just laying in the grass picking clover watching the clock tick down to zero, or up to 80, or however they run the clock in this little publicized, at least up to this point, sport.

With guts and glory like they exhibited in this phenomenal post-season play, one could imagine the Lady Eagles soccer squad will be a lot more visible from now on.

Best of luck at State, girls!

Update to post season play

From the Lakeside High School Athletics web site, here are the latest schedules for Lakeside post season play:

Cross Country:
State Championship Meet - Saturday, Nov 8 in Pasco at Sunwillows Golf Course
Girls at 10:30 a.m.; Boys at 12:00 noon.

Volleyball:
Regional Challenge - Saturday, Nov 8 at Moses Lake High School
11:00 a.m. NEA #1 Lakeside vs. CTL #3 (winner to State, loser out)

Football:
East Region Playoffs - Saturday, Nov 8 at Moses Lake High School
1:00 p.m. NEA #2 Lakeside (6-3) vs. CTL #3 Chelan (6-2)

Girls' Soccer:
First Round of State - Wednesday, Nov 12 at Lakeside Middle School
3:00 p.m District 7 #1 Lakeside vs. District 5 #3

Post season schedule

Here is the post season schedule from the Lakeside High School Athletics web site:

Cross Country: 10-30- Boys only at Wenatchee (Regionals) at 1:00
State on Nov. 7-8

Volleyball: Districts on Nov. 1 is at W. Valley at 11:00
Regionals on Nov 8 is at Moses Lake High School, time TBA

Girls' Soccer: vs. Freeman Oct. 28 at LHS at 3:00 p.m.
Loser out; Winner at Newport Oct. 31 at 3:00 p.m.

Football: Playoffs at Moses Lake on Nov. 8 (game times 1:00 4:00 7:00) Lakeside's time TBA