Gialamas Lifts San Clemente

Patricia Gialamas held her arms high in celebration after scoring the second goal for the San Clemente girls’ soccer team.

And about all Capistrano Valley’s players could do was throw their arms up in despair after losing to the Tritons for the third time this season, 2-1, in the Southern Section Division I championship game Saturday at La Mirada High.

Gialamas’ goal, which came on a rebound after Capistrano Valley goalkeeper Staci Sinkway punched away a throw-in by Makenzie Beahm in the 60th minute, would give the Tritons (21-3-3) their first title.

Capistrano Valley (17-4-2) trailed, 2-0, after Gialamas’ goal and a comeback came up short, though the Cougars outshot San Clemente, 11-3, in the second half and 14-5 in the game.

“I was bombarded with balls,” San Clemente goalkeeper Aly Berger said. “The sun was really bad. Every time the ball was up, I couldn’t see it at all and had to wait for it to bounce or something.”

The ball bounced San Clemente’s way often enough. Blake Zerboni’s sixth goal of the season also followed a throw-in by Beahm in the 17th minute.

Lauren Sapp scored Capistrano Valley’s goal in the 73rd minute on a rebound off the right goal post after a throw-in by Jen Horn.

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Santa Margarita 2, Santa Ana Mater Dei 0--Santa Margarita and Mater Dei had tied twice during Serra League play, but the Eagles scored two second-half goals to win the Division III title at La Mirada.

The championship was the second in a row and third in four seasons in Division III for the Eagles (19-1-4). Santa Margarita also won Division II titles in 1997 and ’98.

Santa Margarita freshman forward Amy Rodriguez scored her 10th goal of the season in the 56th minute with an assist from Stephanie De Almeida.

Junior midfielder Brittany Perkowski scored in the 74th minute off an assist from Shannon Foley.

The scores came once Santa Margarita began to dominate possession of the ball after an even first half in which each team took six shots. Mater Dei (17-5-6) was outshot, 12-8.

Lauren Peterson

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Huntington Beach Edison 4, Crescenta Valley 1--Jane Wyche scored twice to lead the Chargers to the Division II title at Cerritos Gahr High. Wyche scored off a rebound following a free kick in the 17th minute, then gave the top-seeded Chargers a 2-0 lead when she lofted a shot off the crossbar in the 55th minute.

Crescenta Valley (21-7-3) scored on Jordan Stanley’s penalty kick four minutes later, but Edison reclaimed a two-goal lead when Sascha Contreras bounced a shot off the post in the 58th minute. Contreras, who had another goal nullified on a penalty, was involved in the final goal when her pass bounced off a Crescenta Valley defender and into the net in the closing minutes.

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North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake 1, LaVerne Bonita 1--Harvard-Westlake won its second consecutive Division IV title and Bonita its first with the draw at Gahr High.

After a scoreless first half, top-seeded Harvard-Westlake (23-1-2) took a 1-0 lead in the 45th minute, when Kim LaVere sent her corner kick into the middle of the box, where UCLA-bound forward Kim Oakes headed the ball off a defender and into the net.

About two minutes later, Lauren Vosburg tied the score for second-seeded Bonita (31-1-2) when LaVere and Harvard-Westlake goalkeeper Marcela Benitez hesitated before pursuing a slow-rolling soft shot into the box. Vosburg beat Benitez to the ball, lifting it over her outstretched body.

Dan Arritt

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Pasadena La Salle 2, Pasadena Poly 2-- Molly Easterlin knocked in Molly Quinn’s cross in the 66th minute as top-seeded Pasadena Poly rallied for a tie and a co-championship after allowing two goals in a 71-second span in the Division V final at Gahr.

Erika Miller and Cassie Dombrowski scored in the 54th and 56th minutes for unseeded La Salle (20-3-4), which won its first girls’ soccer title. Stanford-bound Lindsey Hunt scored off Easterlin’s assist in the 38th minute for the defending-champion Panthers (22-1-4).

Steven Herbert