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La Quinta settles for share of soccer titleBy Tom KeeganRegister staff writerFor the second consecutive year, La Quinta High earned the CIF 2-A soccer championship, but this time the Aztecs will share the title with Bishop Montgomery.Saturday’s battle at Gahr High between the top two seeds, which included two scoreless overtime periods, ended in a 1-1 tie.The teams were declared corchampions by a CIF ruling instated last season. The ruling states that if the regulation period of a championship game ends in a tie, two 10-minute overtimes are played with no sud-den-death rule in effect. And, unlike the qualifying rounds, there was no shootout after the second overtime.Top-seeded La Quinta (23-2-2) was 12 minutes away from claiming the title outright when Knight halfback Mike Schlack took a pass from Jaime Arrellano, and scored to make it 1-1.Sophomore Rudy Canales, who started the year on La Quinta’s junior varsity squad, had scored his sixth playoff goal 15 minutes into the first half to put the Aztecs on top.But it was the La Quinta defense, which recorded 19 shutouts this season, that coach Paul Neeld praised the most. Sweeper Jon Cannon, fullback Paul Carlson and goalie Troy Hendrickson were the most impressive.‘‘Those three were the keys today, just as they have been all year long, Neeld said. ‘‘Cannon and Carlson did a really good job of clogging up the middle.”Cannon, who became more offense-minded in the later stages of the game, scored in the final minutes of regulation, but an offsides penalty nullified the goal.Bishop Montgomery coach Carlos Cooper said he would have preferred a shootout.The kids don't really feel as proud they should,” Carlos said. They would rather have risked the chance of losing.”Neeld, whose team advanced to the finals by winning a shootout against Corona del Mar, felt differently.I don’t think it’s a good way to determine who the better team is,” he said. Look at what happened against against Corona del Mar. We both went through the whole game and two overtimes without scoring and just because our goalie makes one more save in the shootout, we win.”REFINANCE NOW!—New Low Rates—REAL ESTATE LOANSUnited Home Loan offers Real Estate loans at extremely attrative rates.1 - MORTGAGES• 30 Year Fixed Rate Mortgages• Assumable• No Prepayment Penalty• Up to $250,000• Larger Loans availableV* MORTGAGES• To 85% of Value• Assumable — No pre-penalty• No Balloon PaymentUNITED HOME LOAN(714)826-5402
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Santa Ana Orange County Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Sun, Mar 13, 1983
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