SOUTHERN SECTION SOCCER ROUNDUP : Santa Ana Advances on Late Goal

Top-seeded Santa Ana needed a late goal by Oscar Hernandez to hold off La Verne Damien, 1-0, Friday in a Division I boys’ soccer first-round playoff game at Santa Ana.

Last season, Damien beat Santa Ana, 2-1, in overtime in the semifinals. In that game, Santa Ana played the second half and overtime with 10 players after Antonio Lagunas received a red-card ejection in the first half.

This time Damien played the second half down a man after a Damien player was ejected late in the first half for a dangerous tackle of Lagunas.

Hernandez passed up an open shot at the goalkeeper from about 18 yards out, waited for the defense to outrun him and scored from about 11 yards.

Santa Ana (20-3-2) advances to play Santa Monica, a 2-0 winner over Thousand Oaks, in the quarterfinals Thursday. Damien finishes 15-10-1.

In other Division I games:

Ocean View 4, Redondo Beach 1--Luan Lai scored with 10 minutes left in the first half and Cesar Hernandez came off the bench to score two in the second half for Ocean View (19-4-3). Redondo Beach finished 6-12-2.

In Division III:

Trabuco Hills 2, Los Altos 1--Long Nguyen and Ryan Carlisle each scored a goal for Trabuco Hills (13-7-2) in the first 20 minutes of the game. Los Altos (12-8-3) hit the goal post twice in the second half. Trabuco Hills plays Arroyo Grande in the second round.

Anaheim 3, Bishop Montgomery 0--Senior Ed Escobar scored two goals for host Anaheim (17-3-3). Juan Lopez had the other goal for the Colonists. Bishop Montgomery finished the season at 15-6-3.

Laguna Hills 3, Ontario 1--Host Laguna Hills (12-5-8) scored two goals in the last 10 minutes to pull away from Ontario. With 10 minutes left, Dean Dowd sent a cross in front of the goal to Jamie Miller, who broke the tie. Two minutes later, Cesar Montes scored his second goal of the game off an assist by Miller.

Joe Verplancke tied the score, 1-1, earlier in the second half for Ontario (5-9-9).

Pomona Garey 4, Santiago 2--Arnulfo Pena scored three goals to lead Garey. Rafael Mosqueda scored both goals for Santiago (13-5-2).

In Division V:

Orange Lutheran 2, Whitney 0--Dale Huss and Matt Styles scored the two goals for Orange Lutheran (10-9-2), handing host Whitney (15-1-1) its first loss of the season. Matt Stratton had four saves for Orange Lutheran, which advances to play Palos Verdes Chadwick, a 4-1 winner over Los Angeles Salesian.