Knee Injury Sidelines Notre Dame’s Vincent

Senior Brenna Vincent, Notre Dame High’s most valuable soccer player last season, will not play for the Knights this season because of lingering effects of a knee injury she suffered in February.

Vincent, a sweeper who made The Times’ all-area team and was a first-team all-Mission League selection, helped Notre Dame to a 17-6 record and a second-place league finish. The team advanced to the second round of the Southern Section Division II playoffs.

“If this was going to happen it’s best that it happened now,” Notre Dame Coach Neezer McNab said. “Now we at least have the preseason to try and find a replacement for our best player.”

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Harvard-Westlake All-American midfielder Natalie Kim has orally committed to play at Stanford.

Kim, a 1994-95 All-American and a first-team Southern Section Division II selection, was also the Mission League’s defensive player of the year.

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La Canada defender Derrick Dyslin has orally committed to play at the University of Richmond. Dyslin, a member of The Times’ 1994-95 all-area team, helped the Spartans to a 25-0 record and the Southern Section Division IV title and was a first-team All-Southern Section selection.

Football

Montclair Prep lost a coin flip and will play its Southern Section Division IX semifinal against top-seeded Atascadero on Saturday at Atascadero High.

* Contributing: Tris Wykes, Michael Lazarus.