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The women’s soccer team spent the whole game against El Camino shooting the ball.  There was a moment in the second half where the ball rebounded off the post twice in one minute. 

Cassandra Orozco heads the ball toward the goal, for Bailey Shaw to score the only goal of the game during the Lancer 1-0 win against El Camino College at home in the Robinson Stadium on Friday Oct 25, 2013.  (Courier/Benjamin Simpson)
Cassandra Orozco heads the ball toward the goal, for Bailey Shaw to score the only goal of the game during the Lancer 1-0 win against El Camino College at home in the Robinson Stadium on Friday Oct 25, 2013. (Courier/Benjamin Simpson)

Despite all these shots—30 in all—the Lancers could only put one in the net, finishing the game with a 1-0 win on Friday at home in Robinson Stadium.

The goal that they did score looked like it was an accident, but the team had been working on the set play.  There was a long throw in by Kaylin Richards, which went straight to the head of Cassandra Orozco standing at the front post.  She headed the ball onward and it bounced off the far post back into the front of the goal.  That’s when Bailey Shaw—one of the three PCC players charging the ball—hit it with her knee into the goal.

“Our throw-ins are really good and our set plays are where we score a lot of goals,” Orozco said.  “I was standing on the post and it came right to my head, and I chipped it forward.  We have been working on crashing the box, and I think we have really mastered that.”

The game ended with a high kick by an El Camino player against Orozco and she showed the scars of the game by red scratches down the side of her nose.

PCC’s defense again kept the opposition from scoring, getting back to their dominating form from the beginning of the season.   In 14 games, the Lancer defense has only allowed just more than one goal per game, including the anomaly of the 5-goal Cerritos loss.

“I think the defense is a little shaky after the Cerritos game when we got scored on five times, but I think it was a problem with marking, and not communicating with each other,” said Shaw, central defender for PCC.  “I think today there was a lot more 1-2 passes, and that the communication and movement today was insanely better.”

“I feel like we did really good, we were connecting, people moving off the ball,” Orozco added.  “We have all picked it up as a team.  We have figured out what we need to focus on, going into the second half of the season I feel like we have improved a lot.”

 

 

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