SOCCER : Roosevelt’s Missed Kick Gives Garfield a Narrow Win

Roosevelt striker Vicente Mejia missed a second-half penalty kick against Garfield on Wednesday, and the Bulldogs held on to a 1-0 win in an Eastern League game.

After a scoreless first half, the Bulldogs opened the second by quickly penetrating Roughrider territory. Within two minutes, Julio Cesar Munoz scored on a rebound.

Garfield dominated most of the game, keeping pressure in the midfield and escaping the offsides trap to set up plays in front of the goal. The Bulldogs nearly scored again when striker Ivan Valente beat Roosevelt goalie Agustin Lopez from the right flank and sliced the ball between two defenders toward forward Romeo Cordova. But when Cordova slid to put the ball in, he knocked it out instead.

Roosevelt was awarded the penalty kick in the 60th minute when a Bulldog touched the ball with his hands in the penalty box.

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Bell 8, Locke 0--Oswaldo Williams’ hat trick gave the Eagles a 5-0 lead before the end of first half in a Central League match at Bell.

The Eagles scored three goals against the Saint defense in the first 15 minutes of the game. Ernesto Serratos opened the scoring on a breakaway. Williams followed with two more tallies, assisted Luis Castillo on the fourth and then scored the fifth goal.

The Eagles have scored 25 goals and have three against them in six games.

South Gate 3, Fremont 2--Riddled with yellow cards and ejections, the Rams nearly threw away their victory when the Pathfinders came back from a 3-0 deficit in the final minutes of Central League action.

Carlos Osorio scored twice and Eric Salazar tallied once for the Rams, seemingly securing their team’s third consecutive victory.

One player from each side was ejected at the end of the first half for unsportsmanlike conduct. When the Rams lost another player to accumulated yellow cards late in the second half, Fremont made good on its one-man advantage.

With five minutes left, Pathfinder Pablo Gonzalez converted a penalty kick and Rene Lemus followed up with another score to close the gap to one goal. Lemus almost got the equalizer on the last play of the game when he shot from the edge of the penalty box, but the ball hit the crossbar.

Huntington Park 4, Jordan 1--Spartan striker Juan Cortez scored one goal in each half, both on personal plays, to lead the Bulldogs in an Eastern League match.

Huntington Park forward Jesus Cadenas found the net first on a header from a corner kick pass early in the game. Hector Ramos tallied shortly thereafter on a rebound from a shot by Mario Mendez for a 2-0 lead.

Jaime Delgado narrowed the score on header from a corner kick pass, but Cortez scored the next two goals to secure the victory.

Lincoln 3, Marshall 1--Carlos Ponce, Melvin Hernandez and Marcelino Salas each scored once for a Northern Conference victory.