PREP ROUNDUP : History Repeats as Esperanza Edges Temple City

Michelle Rullo scored a goal with about 18 minutes remaining to give Esperanza High School a 2-1 victory over Temple City Monday in the championship of the Cerritos girls’ soccer tournament.

The result was the same last year when the teams met in the championship game of the tournament. Temple City, the defending Southern Section 2-A champions, lost only that match last season. Temple City was undefeated before Monday’s meeting with Esperanza (10-1), a 4-A school.

Named to the all-tournament team were Rullo, Sherrie Bunte, Lynn Murray, who also scored in the championship match for the Aztecs, and Kathy Haerle, who assisted on Rullo’s winning goal. Midfielder Karen Van Winkle was named the tournament’s most valuable player.

In Angelus League girls’ soccer:

St. Joseph 2, Rosary 2--Lisa Flores’ second goal late in the match helped St. Joseph tie the score. Marianne Vecchioni scored two goals for visiting Rosary (4-5-2 overall, 0-1-1 in league).

In nonleague girls’ soccer:

Woodbridge 3, Westminster 0--Talia Emery scored two goals to lead the Warriors at Woodbridge.

In nonleague boys’ soccer:

Corona del Mar 3, Sunny Hills 2--Goals by Rasmus Lange in the first half and Justin Pierce and Chris Smith in the second gave the Sea Kings (5-4) a 3-0 lead at Corona del Mar. Sunny Hills cut the deficit to 3-2 on goals by Bobby Magnussen and Jose Rasilla with 20 and 15 minutes remaining, respectively. Sea Kings’ goalkeeper Chris Connelly had eight saves. Sunny Hills’ Mark Ackerman had seven.

Foothill 4, Garden Grove 1--Brian Rice scored two goals and Darren Jacobs and Eric Fukuda each had one for the visiting Knights (8-0).

Newport Harbor 2, San Clemente 0--Tristian Leyva and David Pattison scored in the first half for the Sailors (8-1) at San Clemente. Doug Stuckey, a freshman goalie who replaced Newport Harbor’s regular goalie John Klein, who was ill, had 10 saves.

University 3, Trabuco Hills 0--Diego Serrano scored two goals and Engels Tang scored one in the first half to lead the host Trojans (3-3).