The Fusion then will wrap up its regular season Saturday night against the visiting Los Angeles Legends at the Ventura College Sportsplex.

A pair of Fresno wins has seen the defending Southwest Division champion drop into second place, a point behind the Fuego, 36-35. To defend its title, the Fusion will have to win Saturday and hope the Fuego fail to win Saturday at the Southern California Seahorses and Sunday at the Legends.

A second-place finish wouldn't just mean missing out on the division title, but would set up a rematch of last year's postseason meeting with Kitsap, which the Fusion lost on penalty kicks.

The Ventura County Fusion men's soccer team enters its season finale tonight against the Los Angeles Legends with an opportunity to clinch its first Southwest Division title.

The Fusion and Hollywood United have already clinched playoff berths and will travel to Bremerton, Wash. next week for the Western Conference playoffs.

Hollywood took over the top spot last night when it wrapped up its season with a 4-1 win over last place Ogden. Trailing 33 points to 31, the Fusion can only clinch the title with a victory.

The Fusion beat the host Legends, 5-0, June 25.

Kickoff is at 7 p.m. There will be live updates on Twitter and the Internet broadcast on HomefieldSports.com.

Ventura County Fusion:
Starting lineup: 13 Bryan Hill; 28 Armando Guerrero, 20 Ivan Becerra, 15 Kyle Johnson, 25 Dylan Riley; 14 Sam Nicholson, 22 Hakop Avesyan, 24 Jacob Hustedt, 7 Andy Rose; 10 Danny Barrera, 19 Tomaz de Barros.
Bench: 0 Brian Rowe, 27 Laurence Gaughan, 6 Manny Guzman, 26 Ousman Jagne, 4 Sung-Hyun Kim, 9 Sam Myerson.

Los Angeles Legends
Starting lineup: 44 Raul Calderon, 30 Manuel Bautista, 15 Ricardo Ramirez, 2 Erly Garcia, 14 Charles Paris, 5 victor Flores, 16 Alberto Racca, 17 Jose Mercado, 23 Eders Roldan, 4 Daniel Gutierrez, 11 Daniel Martinez.

Team news -- Westlake High product Danny Barrera starts the first playoff game in Ventura County Fusion history. The winner plays the first-place Hollywood United Hitmen Saturday at Palisades High to advance to the PDL quarterfinals. The Fusion have sacrifices co-leading scorer Artur Aghasayan to the bench in favor of a new defensive look.

Fusion starting lineup: 13 Bryan Hill, 26 Dillon Barna, 6 Manny Guzman, 25 Dylan Riley, 18 Adam Smarte, 3 Danny Barrera, 20 Bryan Byrne, 10 Hagop Chirisian, 15 Bedel Guei, 16 Adam Hamilton, 11 Alfonso Motagalvan.
Legends starting lineup: 1 Joe Barton, 19 Joey Franco, 8 Peter Rodriguez, 9 Mike Frandolph, 3 Sean Alvarado, 10 Gabe Farfan, 14 Mike Farfan, 24 Josh Barton, 21 Kyle Nakazawa, 12 Brent Whitfield, 23 Maxwell Griffin.
Kickoff
4th minute -- Fusion winger Bryan Byrne is treated for a slight injury on the field.
5th minute -- An early Fusion corner kick comes to nothing.
7th minute -- Fusion 1, Legends 0: Motagalvan's 25-yard half volley screams past Legends goalkeeper Barton for the first playoff goal in Fusion history.
18th minute -- Fusion 2, Legends 0: Byrne gets to the byline and pulls the ball back for the onrushing Anthony Hamilton to redirect past Barton for an early two-goal lead.
22nd minute -- The Fusion pour on the pressure with its third, fourth and fifth corner kicks of the early going. Motagalvan's bid for a second is deflected just over. Guzman's rebound shot is charged down.
30th minute -- Hamilton comes within inches of making it 3-0. His leaping header from a Byrne cross is just palmed down by Barton in mid air.
31st minute -- The Fusion defense scrambles away the best Legends chance of the game thus far. Bryan Hill made the initial save and Dillion Barna scrambled the rebound away.
45th minute -- Barrera shoots over from 20 yards when he might have had a teammate forward in a better position.

Halftime

46th minute -- The Fusion replace Chirisian with Sam Nicholson. Seemingly a defensive sub. The Legends take out former Fusion star Gabriel Farfan, replacing him with forward Ernesto Mariscal, who scored the only goal in the Legends 1-0 win here in Ventura Sunday.
57th minute -- Chasing the game, The Legends haven't been able to create many chances against the Fusion. The Fusion have opened the second half carrying the play.
58th minute -- Right on time, Fusion goalkeeper Bryan Hill is called upon to make a big save, using his feet to deflect Kyle Nakazawa's low shot from 10 yards away.
63th minute -- Legends defender Mike Randolph earns a booking for a foul on Danny Barrera.
75th minute -- The Legends nearly pull a goal back, as Brent Whitfield, the third-leading goalscorer in the PDL, rings the post and Nakazawa puts home the rebound. But the offsides' flag nullifies the goal. An angry Manny Bautista races to remonstrate with the referee's assistant.
78th minute -- Fusion 2, Legends 1: Three minutes later, Bautista's low cross bounces around the Fusion area and Whitfield pounces, beating Hill to the loose ball and pulling the Legends within 2-1 with 12 minutes to play.
80th minute -- The Fusion come out of its defensive shell for a chance. Hamilton breaks free for a low 20-yard shot that is pushed aside by Barton.
81st minute -- Hagob Avesian and Matt McManus come on for Byrne and Barrera.
84th minute -- Hamilton and McManus break free for a 2 on 1, but McManus drifts wide into a difficult angle and drags the bid wide.
85th minute -- Former Galaxy defender Mike Randolph breaks up a potential game-clinching Fusion 3 on 2.
88th minute -- Bedel Guei is down injured and Brennan Tennelle comes on for the Fusion midfielder.
89th minute -- Agoura High graduate Sam Myerson is ready to come on for Anthony Hamilton.
90th minute -- McManus is holding the ball up along a Legends corner flag.
There will be five minutes of added time.
91st minute -- The ball glances off Motagalvan right into the path of the PDL's third-leading scorer in the Fusion penalty area, but the Fusion defense is able to handle the situation and close down Brent Whitfield.
93rd minute -- Mariscal lets one fly over from 25 yards. There is a mad scramble to find another ball after two straight errant shots behind Hill's net.
95th minute -- Motagalvan lets a boot fly the entire length of the field.

Full time.

The Fusion will play Hollywood United Saturday at 3 p.m. at Palisades High in the divisonal finals of the PDL playoffs.

Here's the lineups for the division semifinal tonight at Buena High:

Ventura County Fusion
13 Bryan Hill, 26 Dillon Barna, 6 Manny Guzman, 25 Dylan Riley, 18 Adam Smarte, 3 Danny Barrera, 20 Bryan Byrne, 10 Hagop Chirisian, 15 Bedel Guei, 16 Adam Hamilton, 11 Alfonso Motagalvan
SUBS: 22 Artur Aghasian, 5 Hagop Avesyan, 24 Ivan Becerra, 19 Matt McManus, 29 Sam Myerson, 14 Sam Nicholson, 2 Brennan Tennelle.

Los Angeles Legends
1 Joe Barton, 19 Joey Franco, 8 Peter Rodriguez, 9 Mike Frandolph, 3 Sean Alvarado, 10 Gabe Farfan, 14 Mike Farfan, 24 Josh Barton, 21 Kyle Nakazawa, 12 Brent Whitfield, 23 Maxwell Griffin
SUBS: 42 Trevor Hunter, 25 Danny Suits, 20 Will Lopez, 6 Jessey Robles, 17 Ernesto Mariscal, 4 Cito Soriano, 18 Manny Bautista

The Ventura County Fusion men's soccer team is playing for a home playoff game Sunday night.

The Fusion hosts its probable opening-round playoff foe, the Los Angeles Legends, at Buena High.

The match is the second half of a Fusion-Legends doubleheader. The Fusion women's W-League finale kicks off at 4 p.m.

The Fusion men enter play even on points with the second-place Legends. Both teams, which drew scorelessly June 7, have already clinched playoff births. The second-place finisher hosts the third-place finisher Thursday night.

"It's basically a playoff game," said Fusion coach Graham Smith. "Fortunately, this year, we've managed to reach the playoffs, but we want to make it to the Big One."

Only one team in the entire 68-team Premier Development League has lost fewer games than the Fusion this season. The Ottawa Fury (11-0-4) has clinched the Northeast Division title.

The Fusion's title chances were all but lost on draws in four of the past five matches. Although, entering Saturday, tonight's winner had an outside chance at the Southwest Division title, but the first-place Hollywood United Hitman have to lose both Saturday at Southern California or Sunday at Fresno.

"I feel that we should have won the league," said Smith. "We haven't lost a game since (May 8). We've remained undefeated. I think the players themselves would admit that half the ties were there for the winning."

The postseason has been expanded this season to include the third-place finisher in each division. The two division runner ups meet in midweek for the right to visit the division champions on the weekend. Division champions will via next week for conference titles and berths in the PDL Final Four.

The Ventura County Fusion men's soccer team is scoreless after 45 minutes tonight at the Los Angeles Legends.

The Ventura County Fusion women's soccer team drew 2-2 at the Los Angeles Legends Sunday night despite taking a two-goal lead inside 15 minutes.

Ventura College star Jazmarae Strozier slammed home the opener after winger Randi Johns played a pass across the face of goal in the eighth minute.

Four minutes later, Brazilian attacker Paula Pires converted a cross from former Buena High star Emily Cressy for a 2-0 lead.

But the Legends would pull even before halftime on a pair of set pieces, scoring from a long throw and a free kick.

Despite dropping to 0-1-1, Fusion coach Ranbir Shergill appreciated the team's improvement from the season-opening 3-1 loss to Real Colorado May 16.

"We just looked a lot better," said Shergill. "We had addition time of preparation. We moved the ball very well. We passed and moved very well. At the end we were really unlucky not to take all three points.

"We looked like a good team out there."

The Fusion women next take their annual road trip to Colorado, visiting Real Colorado June 15 and the Colorado Force in Fort Collins June 17.