Orange County Prep Soccer : Everything Works for Mission Viejo Against Torrance

Mission Viejo High School players and coaches on the sidelines during the final of the Ocean View High School girls’ soccer tournament Monday couldn’t seem to stop begging their team to slow down, stall and kill a little time.

They need not have worried. Mission Viejo, which led, 2-0, after only 10 minutes, could do nothing to lose the game, and Torrance, the top-ranked Southern Section 4-A team in the preseason, could do nothing to win it.

Mission Viejo, a defending 4-A co-champion, won the much-awaited meeting easily, 4-0.

Torrance (11-2-2) had 16 shots on goal to only seven for Mission Viejo (13-0-1). Torrance had not allowed a goal in the tournament before Monday.

“It was just an unlucky day for us,” said Dale Walker, a Torrance coach who saw one near-goal careen off the goal post and several more stopped on outstanding saves.

“I don’t know what it was, but the ball went in for us,” said Hiram deFries, Mission Viejo co-coach.

The teams met in a Southern Section semifinal last season, a game that ended in a tie, with Mission Viejo advancing on penalty kicks.

This match was even for only 8 1/2 minutes. Julie Foudy, the Diablo sophomore star, picked up a crossing pass from Jennifer Gattis and scored from a few feet out. Just more than a minute later, Tammy Van Opdorp scored off a rebounding shot.

Torrance had plenty of chances, but never could score. Julie Hembree, the Mission Viejo goalkeeper, was named the tournament’s most valuable player. Hembree made perhaps her best play of the match late in the game, making a diving save on a penalty kick by Shannon Maddock when the issue was no longer who would win, but whether Torrance would be shut out.

Stacey Hopper scored the Diablos’ final two goals on 25-yard shots.

In boys’ soccer:

Santa Ana 2, Newport Harbor 1--With two minutes remaining and the score tied, 1-1, Rafael Quintero kicked a goal from six yards out to give Santa Ana the fourth-round win in the Fountain Valley Tournament.

In third-round action:

Marina 2, Newport Harbor 0--Ben Le Francois scored two goals off breakaways for Marina in the second half. Goalkeeper Royce Hudson had 15 saves for Newport Harbor.