Hamilton Gets Another Chance Against Chatsworth

The last time the Los Angeles Hamilton girls’ soccer team played Chatsworth in the City Championship playoffs, the Yankees suffered an 11-0 loss in the 2000 quarterfinals. They’ll be a slight favorite when the teams play today.

Hamilton (17-1-1), the Western League champion and the No. 4-seeded team, advanced to today’s quarterfinals with a 2-1 victory over Bell and a 1-0 decision over Woodland Hills Taft. Chatsworth (13-8-1), the third-place finisher in the West Valley League, is seeded No. 5 and has beaten Van Nuys Grant and Westchester by 7-0 scores.

“This is going to be the most interesting game of the whole season,” said Salvador Davila, Hamilton’s first-year coach. “The girls are really pumped up for this one. This is like their Holy Grail.”

Victories have been hard-earned since Hamilton senior goalkeeper Lizette Andrade suffered a season-ending injury to her left knee against Fairfax just before the playoffs. Since then, Erica Rockey has played two games in goal but was replaced for the Taft game by senior left winger Liz Angermeier, who posted her first shutout.

Rockey, a sophomore, has returned to forward to team with Elena Alvarenga. Alvarenga, who has committed to Cal State Northridge, has a school-record 41 goals and Rockey has 27.

-- Lauren Peterson

Laura Meyers of Sierra Madre Maranatha, who won the state Division IV girls’ cross-country title in November, has committed to Columbia. Meyers placed 42nd in the West region championships in December.

-- John Ortega

Ryan Sorensen, a 6-foot-4, 305-pound All-Marmonte League offensive lineman from Newbury Park, has transferred to Westlake Village Westlake. Sorensen’s Newbury Park teammate, quarterback Rudy Carpenter, earlier transferred to Westlake but hasn’t gained his eligibility for football.

Newhall Hart has reached agreement to play Los Angeles Loyola in its fifth football game next season, giving the Indians one of their toughest nonleague schedules. Hart also plays Division I champion Los Alamitos, Division IV champion Ventura St. Bonaventure, Division IV finalist Westlake Village Westlake and City champion Lake Balboa Birmingham.

-- Eric Sondheimer