THE PREPS : Soccer Roundup : El Toro Puts an End to Mission Viejo’s Undefeated Streak : Diablo Girls Lose First Game Since 1986

The El Toro High School girls’ soccer team ended Mission Viejo’s national-record 84-game undefeated streak with a 2-1 South Coast League victory Thursday at El Toro.

El Toro (9-5-1 overall, 2-3 in league play) built a 2-0 halftime lead and held off a late rally to give Mission Viejo its first loss since Jan. 15, 1986.

Mission Viejo’s Annie Schroeder lined in a loose ball in front of El Toro goalie Paige Lauby with 8 minutes remaining in the game to make the score 2-1, but Lauby stopped two Mission Viejo scoring chances in the closing minutes.

Lauby went to her knees to save a sinking shot by Kelly Hampton with 4 minutes left and scooped up a loose ball with Mission Viejo’s Julie Foudy in front of her 3 minutes later to preserve the victory.

Mission Viejo’s most recent loss was to Laguna Hills, 1-0, also in a South Coast League game. Mission Viejo is 14-1-1, 3-1-1.

“At 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, all the kids came to my house and told me that we were going to win the contest,” said El Toro Coach Bob Chavez. “They wanted this one. They were really confident that they were going to win, and today, they were loose and relaxed going in.”

El Toro had lost to three teams ranked in the Southern Section 4-A poll--No. 3 Dana Hills, No. 4 Esperanza and No. 5 Capistrano Valley.

Said Jim Dutton, Mission Viejo coach: “You don’t ever like to lose, but give El Toro credit. They took us out of our game. They came out smoking and we just went out and watched them smoke. I thought we played well in the last 10 minutes of the game, but we were just flat before then.”

El Toro survived two Mission Viejo scoring chances early in the first half. The first came with 1 minute gone when Foudy evaded Leslie Steinart just outside the El Toro penalty area and kicked a low line-drive that sailed just wide.

Fourteen minutes later, after a Diablo free kick, Jennifer Delp picked up a ball in front of the El Toro net and also kicked the ball wide.

The Chargers took a 1-0 lead midway in the half when Shawn Viloria’s high angle shot inside the penalty area sailed over goalie Tamar deFries’ head into the net.

The Chargers got their second goal with less than a minute left in the half when Shannon de Avila took a pass inside the Mission Viejo penalty area and lined a short kick past deFries.

“After we got the first 2 goals in the first half, we went into a defensive game thinking that we could hold on,” Chavez said. “It worked for 30 minutes, but in the last 10 minutes, they came on strong and made it tough for us. But we just hung in there tough and just sucked it in when we had to.”

In another South Coast League match:

Capistrano Valley 2, Dana Hills 1--Sarah Stoney and Becky Linhart scored 1 goal each and Kathy Safranski had 7 saves for visiting Capistrano Valley (12-4-1, 4-1).

In the Empire League:

El Dorado 1, Los Alamitos 0--Host El Dorado scored in the second half when Los Alamitos accidently kicked the ball into its own net. Tracy Susaeta was the last El Dorado player to touch the ball so she was credited with the goal. Monica Costello had 11 saves for El Dorado (8-3-4, 2-2-1).

In the Garden Grove League:

La Quinta 1, Pacifica 1--Devon Fitzpatrick scored in the first half for host Pacifica and Bridgette Moore scored in the second half for La Quinta (9-2-1, 3-0-1). Wendy Wilson had 4 saves for La Quinta and Rikki Drake had 5 saves for Pacifica (3-0-1 in league play).

Kennedy 1, Garden Grove 0--Stacy Darin scored about 20 minutes into the game for visiting Kennedy (2-2 in league play).

In the Orange League:

Valencia 9, Savanna 0--Tracy Greer had 3 goals, and Debbie Laporte and Kristina Yoseloff 2 each for host Valencia (11-5, 4-0). Juliette Yoseloff and Kelly Giambalvo also scored. Savanna, which is in its first year of play, is 0-10, 0-3.

In the Pacific Coast League:

Laguna Hills 3, Trabuco Hills 0--Christina DeFelice scored 2 goals and Alicia Casey 1 for host Laguna Hills (4-8-2, 2-1).

Woodbridge 2, Laguna Beach 0--Lissa Olsson scored a pair of first-half goals for visiting Woodbridge (6-8-1, 2-1). Tonya Dzurilla had 3 saves for Woodbridge.

In the Sea View League:

University 0, Newport Harbor 0--Kelli Kynoch had 8 saves for University (2-1-1 in league play) and Lorena Valdivia had 4 saves for host Newport Harbor (1-2-1 in league play).

In the Sunset League:

Westminster 2, Edison 1--Kim Sentman scored twice, the second time to break a 1-1 tie in the first half for host Westminster (2-2-2 in league play.) Shelley Blanco scored for Edison.

Marina 1, Ocean View 0--Melanie Frakes scored in the first half for host Marina (10-6-2, 4-1-1). Cristin Rossman had 7 saves for Marina and Jenni Harmen had 15 savesfor Ocean View (1-3-2 in league play).

Huntington Beach 0, Fountain Valley 0--Gina Corbin had 7 saves for visiting Huntington Beach (6-8-3, 1-2-3). Kelly Gillis had 4 saves in the first half and Tricia Lockwood had 7 in the second half for Fountain Valley (4-6-3, 2-2-2).

In Angelus League boys’ soccer:

Mater Dei 3, Servite 2--Marty Williams scored 2 goals and Mike Ammann 1 for visiting Mater Dei (7-7, 3-1). Servite (2-2 in league play) led, 2-0, at the half.