Yadira Toraya's goal two minutes into extra time pushed the Ventura College women's soccer team past Antelope Valley, 2-1, Saturday night in the Southern California regional quarterfinals at the VC Sportsplex.

Sophomore Jazmarae Strozier, the state leader in goals scored, gave the Pirates (17-3-1) the lead in the 30th minute. But Rheanna Crawford equalized for the visiting Mauraders (16-4) with 14 minutes to play.

Oxnard College men's soccer head coach Ross Greaney on the Condors 1-0 Southern California regional quarterfinal loss to visiting rival Moorpark Saturday afternoon:

"They (Moorpark) played great defensively. We found it tough to break them down."

(on the decisive own goal)

"It was a stumble. Kind of a bit of a mess, and they were able to make it stand up."

(Thanks to correspondent Ivan Yeo for the reporting)

Moorpark College men's soccer head coach Sean Roche on the Raiders 1-0 Southern California regional quarterfinal win over county-rival Oxnard Saturday afternoon:

"The game lived up to the expectation of what it would be. It was an even game, just the one goal, but everywhere else, it was even."

(Thanks to correspondent Ivan Yeo for the reporting)

The CLU football team dropped its NCAA Division III first-round playoff game at Linfield, 38-17, Saturday afternoon.

On his blog, Star columnist David Lassen gave this summary at the final whistle:

"Linfield's defense had four interceptions, sacked CLU quarterback Jericho Toilolo eight times and held CLU to 220 total yards, which was more than enough to protect the 31-3 lead Linfield built in the second quarter.

Linfield quarterback Aaron Boehme passed for 114 yards and three touchdowns, and ran for 99 yards and another score to lead Linfield (10-0) into a second-round game with Mary Hardin-Baylor of Texas next week. The site will be announced today.

More to come later, and in Sunday's edition of The Star."

After trailing 31-3, CLU scored twice in the final six minutes -- on Brian Stuart runs of 3 and 15 yards, the last with 41 seconds left -- and trails 31-17 at halftime of the NCAA Divison III first-round playoff game at Linfield, Ore.

CLU scored first on a 22-yard Jackson Damron field goal, but Linfield took advantage of CLU turnovers in scoring 31 straight points.

Linfield's defensive has been extremely tough so far, allowing CLU just 79 total yards, including just 15 passing. Linfield has 242 total yards, and is led by quarterback Aaron Boehme (8 of 15 for 102 yards and two TDs, plus nine rushes for 82 yards and a score).

For CLU, Stuart has 15 carries for 52 yards.

Jackson Damron's 22-yard field goal gave the Cal Lutheran University football team an early 3-0 lead at Linfield in the NCAA Division III playoffs.

But Linfield bounced back to take a 14-3 lead after one quarter on running back Aaron Williams 1-yard run and quarterback Aaron Boehme's 22-yard pass to Henderson.

Boehme's 22-yard run on the first play of the second quarter pushed the Linfield lead to 21-3.

Here's the playoff history this decade of the four county teams playing Southern California regional quarterfinals today around the county:

Oxnard College men's soccer team (1-2)
2008 L.A. Harbor L, 3-0
2007 Cerritos L, 2-1
Santa Barbara W, 3-2

Moorpark College men soccer (1-2)
2004 Santa Ana L, 3-1
Canyons W, 2-0
2003 Fullerton L, 4-0

Moorpark College women's soccer (2-7)
2008 L.A. Pierce L, 1-1 (PKs)
2007 Santa Barbara L, 3-0
2006 Santiago Canyon L, 6-0
Long Beach City W, 2-1
2005 Santiago Canyon L, 3-1
2004 Long Beach City L, 3-0
Rio Hondo W, 3-2
2003 Ventura L, 1-0
2002 Long Beach City L, 3-0

Ventura College women's soccer (6-9)
2008 San Diego Mesa L, 2-0
Southwestern W, 2-1
2007 Cerritos L, 3-1
2006 Orange Coast L, 1-0
2005 Grossmont L, 5-0
2004 Santiago Canyon L, 4-1
Mount SAC W, 4-0
2003 Cypress L, 2-0
Moorpark W, 1-0
2002 Cypress L, 2-0
Mount SAC, W 1-0
2001 Cuyamaca L, 2-1
Mount SAC W, 3-0
2000 Long Beach City L, 5-0
Grossmont W, 2-0

Four local community college soccer programs will open the Southern California regional playoffs in the county Saturday, as the two men's teams were pitted against each other and the two women's teams earned Top 4 seeds when the pairings were released Saturday afternoon.

No. 7 Oxnard (11-6-4) will host No. 10 Moorpark (11-6-2) Saturday afternoon at 2 in a regional quarterfinal. Their last meeting in Oxnard produced a 4-2 thriller Oct. 9.

The Ventura College women's soccer team (16-3-1) was seeded second in the Southern California regional playoffs for the second straight season. The No. 2 Pirates will host No. 15 Antelope Valley (16-3) Saturday night at 7 in the regional quarterfinals.

The undefeated Moorpark College women's soccer team (14-0-4), which edged Ventura in the Western State Conference's North Division for the second time in three years, was seeded No. 4. The Raiders will host No. 13 San Diego Miramar (16-3-1), which features forward Nicole Petracca, who leads Southern California with 64 points (23 goals, 18 assists).

Earning its second bowl berth in three seasons, the Ventura College football team (7-3) will play Golden West (6-4) in the Orange County Bowl.

Kickoff at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa is Saturday night at 5.

"It's a huge accomplishment for these guys," said Ventura coach Jon Mack. "We're excited. It's a great reward for a great season."

The Pirates were proud of a solid third-place finish in the difficult Northern Conference and were back to work Sunday, 12 hours after beating rival Moorpark in consecutive seasons for the first time in 23 years.

"We're flexing," said Mack. "We lost three games to three 9-1 teams."

All three of Ventura's losses came against Top 5 seeds in the Southern California regional playoffs. The Pirates finished tied for No. 9 in the final Southern California coaches' poll.

Golden West finished 6-1 in the American Division's Mountain Conference. It was kept out of the playoffs by a 35-32 loss to Los Angeles Harbor on Sept. 26.

The postseason pairings are No. 8 Los Angeles Pierce (7-3) at No. 1 Mount San Antonio (9-1), No. 5 Hancock (9-1) at No. 4 Bakersfield (9-1), No. 7 L.A. Harbor (9-1) at No. 2 Fullerton (9-1) and No. 6 Palomar (8-2) at No. 3 Cerritos (9-1).

The Southern California champion advances to play the winner of the Nov. 21 Northern California title game between San Mateo (9-1) and Reedley (6-4) in the Dec. 12 state championship game.

The postseason structure put in place during the Southern California Football Association's creation in 2008 includes berths for the three Northern Division conference champions (Mount SAC, Fullerton and Bakersfield), three Northern Division conference runners up (Cerritos, Hancock and Palomar) and the two conference champions from the lesser American Division (L.A. Harbor and L.A. Pierce).

In the other two non-playoff bowl, Saddleback (8-2) will play College of the Canyons (6-4) in the Western State Bowl and El Camino (8-2) will play Grossmont (7-3) in the Beach Bowl.

Making its first bowl appearance in eight years, Ventura scored 15 points during a three-minute span in the fourth quarter to upend host Palomar, 39-35, and confirm a 8-3 season in the 2007 Southern California Bowl.

As expected, the Cal Lutheran University football team will play at Linfield of McMinnville, Ore. Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Division III playoffs. Game time is noon.

The winner of that game plays the Mary Hardin-Baylor/Central (Iowa) winner.

In the other half of the bracket, Coe is at St. John's (Minn.) and St. Thomas (Minn) is at Monmouth.

The last team besides Mount Union to win the national championship, Linfield won the title in 2004. Mount Union has won the national title in 10 of the last 13 seasons. St. John's won the national title in 2003.

The 32-team tournament concludes with the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl in Salem, Va., on Dec. 19.

Cuesta knocks No. 3-ranked Ventura College men's water polo from Southern California regional playoffs with a 12-11 overtime win.

Ventura had beaten Cuesta in the teams four previous meetings this year, but were without three key players.

It led 4-2 after one and 7-5 after three.

The Ventura College women's water polo team, seeded No. 10, fell 7-6 to No. 7 Long Beach City in the first round of the Southern California regional playoffs today at Pasadena City College.

Emily Allen scored two goals and Carly Clark, Olivia Hernandez, Rachel Davis, Courtney Thomas added goals for the Pirates (18-5).

Sarah Agopian's second goal gave Long Beach a 7-5 lead with 1:06 to play as the Vikings never trailed.

Ventura goalie Marissa Herold made seven blocks.

Long Beach moves on to face No. 2 Cerritos (29-1) in Friday's quarterfinals.

The Ventura College men's water polo team will open the Southern California regional playoffs Friday against a familiar foe.

The No. 3-seeded Pirates (19-4) will face conference rival Cuesta for the fifth time this season in the regional quarterfinals at Pasadena City College.

"We went over the game plan today," said Ventura coach Mark Schmidt Wednesday. "At least we don't need to replan. We pretty much know what we're supposed to do."

Postseason play is supposed to be about unfamiliar teams sizing up each other. But Schmidt isn't too bothered about facing a conference rival in the postseason considering Ventura is 3-1 against the Cougars this season, including a 13-6 win in Saturday's Western State Conference title game.

"They don't have anything in the seeding process to account for conferences," said Schmidt.

Ventura will be without drivers Michael Crowley and Michael Craft, who were ejected from Saturday's WSC title game. Crowley leads the team in steals (28) and ranks second in goals (56) and assists (23).

"He's a key player," said Schmidt of Crowley . "The game against Cuesta, on paper, he only gave us one goal and one assist, but he makes the guys around him better.

"He's always a threat. But we've been missing guys at different points throughout the season. We have a bunch of guys who score."

Ventura may also be without driver Hayden Adler, who has been stricken by the flu this week. Schmidt said that all Ventura players were told to get tested for swine flu.

Click here for a handy football postseason breakdown from SFCA commish Jim Sartoris.

Not that Northern Conference fans need much help:

"Bakersfield - Playoff team - Qualifies as #1 finisher, no matter their outcome in the last game. Would win tie breaker with Hancock if both 5-1 in conference.
Hancock - Playoff team - qualifies as #2 finisher, has completed their schedule of 10 games. Finished 5-1 and 9-1.
Ventura - could end up 7-3 or 6-4 overall depending on the outcome of their game with Moorpark (0-9) and would be Bowl Eligible.
Canyons - could be 7-3 or 6-4 overall depending on the outcome of their game with Bakersfield (8-1) and would be Bowl Eligible."

The Ventura College men's water polo team (19-4) is the No. 3 seed in the Southern California regional playoffs.

The Western State Conference champion Pirates, who lead the state in winning percentage, was unusually pitted against conference rival Cuesta, the No. 6 seed, in Friday's Southern California quarterfinals at Pasadena City College.

Ventura won three of the four meetings between the teams this year, winning 15-6 in the Citrus tournament, 12-8 in conference play and 13-6 in the WSC title game Saturday after falling 13-7 in Cuesta's tournament in September.

Both teams will be missing players that were ejected during Saturday's conference final.

The winner faces No. 2 Long Beach, No. 7 Orange Coast or No. 10 Saddleback in Saturday's SoCal semifinals at PCC.

Click the jump for the rest of the quarterfinal matchups.

The Ventura College women's water polo team (18-4) is the No. 10 seed in the Southern California regional playoffs.

The Western State Conference champion, Pirates will face No. 7 Long Beach City (22-6) Thursday afternoon in a regional first-round match at Pasadena City College.

Ventura did not face Long Beach this season, but did go 4-0 in its tournament in October.

The winner faces No. 2 Cerritos in the quarterfinals Friday at PCC.

Click the jump for the rest of the quarterfinal matchups.

Both the men's and women's cross country teams for both Oxnard College and Ventura College finished in the Top 14 at this afternoon's Southern California championships at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut.

The finishes qualified all four teams for the California Community College championships Nov. 21 in Fresno.

VC men were eighth. VC women were 12th.

OC men were 12th and OC women were 14th.

MC women finished 20th.

Belated congratulations to the Premier Development League champion Ventura County Fusion, who beat the Chicago Fire Premier 2-1 on Alfonso Motagalvan's scrappy, late goal on Aug. 8 to win its first North American title.

I wouldn't have missed it for anything but my wedding.

Star teammate Rhiannon Potkey covered the final fantastically, as this preview, this game story and this wrapup featuring Fusion midfielder Bedel Guei attest.

Fusion coach Graham Smith on the Fusion's shockingly comprehensive 6-1 win over the Bradenton Academics Saturday night in Laredo, Tex.

"I want them to enjoy the occasion because they deserve it," said Smith of his players. "Their attitude has been exemplary.

"It's been one of quiet confidence. I didn't see any frightened eyes out there. When that happens, you get a good feeling.

"They've come together as a group and we're extremely proud of them, regardless of what happens next."

Team news: Less than 20 minutes before kickoff. The players are on the field warming up. The Fusion are wearing its home blue shirts. "The atmosphere is great and the guys are fired up," texts team translator Greg Asatourian from Laredo, Tex.

Fusion starting lineup: Bryan Hill, Dylan Riley, Dillon Barna, Ivan Becerra, Armondo Guerrero, Bryan Byrne, Manny Guzman, Alfonso Motagalvan, Danny Barrera, Rodrigo Lopez, Anthony Hamilton.
Game-time conditions: 104 degrees, hot, humid and windy.
Kickoff
1st minute -- Hamilton floats in a good cross to start, but no one is there to attack it. Bradenton earns a corner on the count.
2nd minute -- Hill makes a huge save on the free kick, knocking it high and over. The corner is delt with by Byrne.
3rd minute -- Guzman plays it forward to Barrera, who is fouled and earns a free kick 25 yards out. Barrera takes the set piece and the goalkeeper palms it over for a corner.
4th minute -- Lopez nearly finds Becerra with the corner, but Bradenton attacker Stephen Morris gets forward past a few Fusion players. He breaks free 1 on 1 with Hill and just misses wide.
6th minute -- Barna heads away a Bradenton corner kick with ease.
7th minute -- Lopez gets back to handle a Bradenton corner and fouls midfielder Jose Roberto Ramos. But the free kick is turned over needlessly. Hamilton threatens on the counter attack but Motagalvan finishes over the bar.
8th minute -- Morris misses wide with a good chance on a Bradenton counter.
Asatourian adds "So far it has been a great up and down fast paced game.

9th minute -- Lopez finds Motagalvan who finds Byrne, whose cross is deflected over by Bradenton defender Guilherme Reis.
Asatourian adds "Morris looks dangerous and Bradenton is maintaining good possession."
13th minute -- Riley and Hamilton nearly pull off a give and go, but the shot is dragged wide.
Asatourian adds "Bradenton is having trouble containing Byrne."
14th minute -- Hamilton is played through by the shot is saved.
18th minute -- The Fusion has a penalty shout as Becerra may have been fouled in the box, but the ref doesn't give it. Lopez found Becerra with a great give and go and Ivan beat his defender.
20th minute -- A second Fusion shout comes to nothing as a potential Bradenton back pass is handled by the keeper, but it is missed by the referees.
Ranbir Shergill adds "should have had two penalties."
Asatourian adds "Everyone on our bench has been warned for protesting. Two stone cold penalties not awarded. Both teams are attacking furiously."
23rd minute -- Byrne drags a shot wide.
24th minute -- Lopez's cross to Riley creates a great chance by the free header from 6 yards goes just wide.
27th minute -- The Fusion bench explodes after Riley is given a yellow card after a disputed foul.
33rd minute -- Hamilton explodes down the wing, but the cross goes high. Byrne follows with a strong shot that is blocked down by a Bradenton defender.
36th minute -- Bradenton 1, Fusion 0: Bradenton scrambles home the opening goal off a ball that Hill couldn't catch.
38th minute -- Fusion 1, Bradenton 1: The Fusion immediatley equalize. Lopez explodes into the penalty area with a great dribble and finishes with a low shot.
40th minute -- Fusion 2, Bradenton 1: Lopez's cross is deflected and Becerra arrives to head the ball past the Bradenton keeper for a fantastic Fusion response.
Asatourian adds "This has been an amazing fast paced game full of chances with the Fusion having the most possession.."
43rd minute -- Bradenton earns a free kick but Cameron Hepple's free kick is driven wide.
44th minute -- Lopez's corner kick is driven in but Becerra's header is deflected.
45th minute -- Fusion 3, Bradenton 1: Barrera nods down into the box for Hamilton, who spins in the and finishes expertly for a mammoth two-goal halftime lead.

Halftime
46th minute -- The second half has kicked off without a substitution.
49th minute -- Bradenton forward Ederson Lopes gets into a good position, but Lopez wins it back for the Fusion and finds a streaking Guerrero. But the move comes to nothing.
51st minute -- Fusion 4, Bradenton 1: The Fusion have one foot in the final now. Barrera, the Westlake High product, takes the ball off a Bradenton defender, walks into the penalty area calmly and sends a curving shot home for a three-goal Fusion lead.
54th minute -- Fusion 5, Bradenton 1: The Fusion score its fifth unanswered goal. Bradenton was pushing forward looking to create some chances and the Hamilton punished it on the counter attack. Barrera picks up the assist.
55th minute -- Barrera, who has had a goal and an assist in the second half, yields for Agoura High graduate Sam Myerson. Barrera would have been suspended for the final with a yellow card.
59th minute -- Hagop Chirishian on for an injured Manny Guzman, right before Hill makes a great save. Bradenton wastes the resulting corner.
69th minute -- Ramos dribbles through the Fusion defense and slips a pass to Lopes to fire high.
74th minute -- Adam Smarte, who didn't start because of an elbow injury, comes on to replace Motagalvan.
75th minute -- Chirishian sets up a chance for Myerson, but the save is made.
77th minute -- Arthur Aghasyan comes on for Hamilton.
80th minute -- Avesyan is getting ready to replace Byrne.
NEWS UPDATE -- The PDL just cleared Ranbir Shergill to announce that, if the result stands, the Fusion will host the PDL final next Saturday night at Buena High.
90th minute - Fusion 6, Bradenton 1: Aghasyan makes it six with a header from Lopez in the final minute.

The score is final. The Fusion will host either the Chicago Fire or Cary Clarets Aug. 8 at Buena High for the PDL national title.

Last I heard, Chicago led Cary, 2-1.