Here is Ventura College women's soccer coach Steve Hoffman on his program's first trip to the state Final Four. The Pirates, who beat San Bernardino Valley 2-1 in a regional final Saturday, face host Consumnes River College in a state semifinal Friday in Sacramento:

(Congratulations)

"We're not quite satisfied yet. You can't just be happy to be there. We want to win it."

(reaction to the grass surface in Sacramento, which is different from VC's home stadium)

"We can win on anything. I expect it to be that long sticky stuff that slows the game down a bit. We'll train on grass this week. We'd like to see a fast (turf) surface, because that's what we play on, but I don't think it really matters."

(Status update on Jazmarae Strozier, the state's co-leading goalscorer, who missed the regional final win after injuring a knee scoring her third goal of the postseason Tuesday)

"I wouldn't expect to have Jaz back. If she does play it's a bonus."

"You can play a few games without a Torres if you have a Gerrard."

(On No. 5-N Consumnes River)

"They beat Santa Rosa and unbeaten Solano 5-1 (in the regional final), so they must be pretty good. (Forward Dani) Arellano is a stud. She has 30 goals and 7 assists.

"Both Sacramento teams are in it, so they'll have some poeple out there supporting them. But if we played like we did (Saturday), we should be all right."

(On the season)

"It's been a weird year. We've come together as a team in the last week.

Consolation final: Santa Barbara City 76, Oxnard 72
Third-place game: Los Angeles Harbor def. Compton
Championship: No. 1 San Bernardino def. Fullerton

Community College women's basketball

VC-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions final

Ventura 66, Mount San Antonio 43: VC turns 1-2 matchup into a no contest by Joe Curley in Ventura

We're about 20 minutes from the tip off of the VC-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions between the No. 1 Ventura College women's basketball team and No. 2 Mount San Antonio.

We'll have a halftime update here on the blog, in-game updates on the Twitter feed down the right hand side of this page, and the Internet broadcast at HomefieldSports.com.

All-tournament team -- Mount SAC's Tanisa Braxton and Ashley Adams and Ventura's Chanelle Brennan and Amanda Padilla, who is named the tournament Most Valuable Player, join Canyons' Ashley Wakefield and Imperial Valley's Kelli Wilder on the all-tournament team.

Second half
0:00 -- 66-43 VC -- No. 1 Ventura wins its second straight VC-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions with a 66-43 win over No. 2 Mount SAC.
3:10 -- 65-37 VC -- Ward's floater proves she's OK.
4:23 -- 61-35 VC -- An Escamilla 3, King's bucke from Ward and Ward's bucket from Padilla caps a 21-9 VC run.
8:30 -- 54-33 VC -- King's beautiful move on the right block and Padilla's long 3-pointer. Padilla has a game-high and career-high 24 points
11:15 -- 49-31 VC -- Ward reenters the game with her hand heavily taped.
13:08 -- 47-31 VC -- Brennan's runner stops a 5-0 Mount SAC run.
15:35 -- 45-26 VC -- Padilla's 3-pointer with 15:35 to play gives Ventura it's biggest lead of the night,
18:15 -- 40-24 VC -- Padilla's runner and Brennan's layup from Padilla.
19:20 -- 38-24 VC -- Ward seems to have injured her hand and has left the game after a Ventura timeout with 19:20 to play.

Halftime -- Ventura is 15 of 27 shooting, including 4 of 7 on 3-pointers. Padilla has 14, Ward has 13 and King has 6. Lewis leads Mount SAC with 10. Mount SAC is winning the boards, 14-10.

18:29 -- 5-0, VC -- Amanda Padilla's drive and Erika Ward's 3-point play give VC an early 5-0 lead.
16:07 -- 10-2 VC -- Padilla's runner and Ward's 3-pointer pushes VC ahead 10-2 and forces a Mount SAC timeout.
14:20 -- 16-3 VC -- Kris King's pull up jumper and her assist to Brennan.
7:40 -- 19-14 VC -- Padilla's 3-pointer is the only VC field goal in a 11-3 Mount SAC run, led by Brittany Lewis' eight points.
5:58 -- 23-16 VC -- Ward's runner and King's pick and roll finish from Padilla.
3:52 -- 28-20 VC -- King putback.
1:50 -- 29-24 VC -- Two Kimiere Hawkins' putbacks pull Mount SAC within five.
0:00 -- 36-24 VC -- Ward's NBA-range 3-pointer and two pretty Padilla drives allow VC to close the half on a 7-0 run.

Women's soccer

Southern California regional finals

No. 1 Santiago Canyon 1, No. 4 Moorpark 0 news report
No. 2 Ventura 2, No. 3 San Bernardino Valley 1 news report

Northern California regional finals

No. 5 Cosumnes River 5, No. 1 Solano 1 news report
No. 6 American River 1, No. 2 Fresno City 0 news report

State semifinals, Friday
Consumnes River College, Sacramento

No. 1-S American River vs. No. 2-N American River
No. 2-S Ventura at No. 1-S Consumnes River

Men's soccer

Southern California regional finals

No. 4 Santa Ana 4, No. 8 College of the Canyons 0
No. 2 Mount San Antonio 2, No. 3 Cerritos 1

Northern California regional finals

No. 2 Fresno City 0, No. 6 San Francisco 0 (5-3 on pens) news report
No. 1 Taft 1, No. 5 Santa Rosa 0

State semifinals, Friday
Consumnes River College, Sacramento

No. 1-S Mount San Antonio vs. No. 2-N Fresno City
No. 2-S Santa Ana vs. No. 1-N Taft

Community College women's volleyball

Northern California regional finals

No. 1 Sacramento City d. No. 9 Diablo Valley, 3‐0 (25‐10, 25‐15, 25‐19)
No. 7 Sierra d. No. 2 Foothill, 3‐1 (18‐25, 25‐18, 25‐17, 25‐22)
No. 3 San Joaquin Delta d. No. 11 Cabrillo, 3‐0 (25‐22, 25‐21, 25‐17)
No. 5 Santa Rosa d. No. 4 Fresno City, 3‐1 (18‐25, 25‐19, 25‐18, 25‐15)

Southern California regional finals

No. 8 Bakersfield d. No. 1 Pasadena City, 3‐2 (24‐26, 25‐23, 25‐16, 15‐25, 15‐10)
No. 7 Irvine Valley d. No. 2 El Camino, 3‐2 (25‐19, 25‐19, 17‐25, 18‐25, 15‐13)
No. 6 Cypress d. No. 3 Santa Barbara City, 3‐2 (25‐19, 24‐26, 25‐21, 20‐25, 15‐11)
No. 5 Orange Coast d. No. 4 Moorpark, 3‐2 (25‐22, 19‐25, 25‐21, 16‐25, 15‐8)

Chanelle Brennan had a career-high 32 points and 11 rebounds as the top-ranked Ventura College women's basketball team defeated Santa Monica 71-53 in the semifinals of the VC-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions.

Guard Erika Ward had 12 points and point guard Amanda Padilla added 10 points, nine assists and three steals as Ventura (5-0) advanced to a No. 1 versus No. 2 showdown with Mount San Antonio in Sunday's 4 p.m. final.

Chanelle Brennan had a career-high 32 points and 11 rebounds as the top-ranked Ventura College women's basketball team defeated Santa Monica 71-53 in the semifinals of the VC-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions.

Guard Erika Ward had 12 points and point guard Amanda Padilla added 10 points, nine assists and three steals as Ventura (5-0) advanced to a No. 1 versus No. 2 showdown with Mount San Antonio in Sunday's 4 p.m. final.

On Rachel Olinyk's seventh kill of the game, Moorpark wins Game 4 25-16 to force a decisive fifth game with Orange Coast.

Winner goes to Stockton.

UPDATE: Orange Coast wins Game 5 15-8. The Pirates head to Stockton.

The Ventura College women's basketball team leads Santa Monica, 38-27, at the half behind sophomore forward Chanelle Brennan, who has 20 points on 7 of 9 shooting and 8 rebounds.

Point guard Amanda Padilla has six points, six assists and three steals.

If Ventura holds on, the top-ranked Pirates would advance for a No. 1 versus No. 2 showdown with Mount San Antonio College in tomorrow's 4 p.m. final.

No. 2 Mount SAC beat Canyons, 82-77, in the first VC-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions semifinal.

After 10 ties in Game 3, including 19-19, Orange Coast reels off six of the last eight points to win 25-21 and take a 2-1 lead in games.

Update: Kills by Siljegovic, Balkhi (twice) and Olinyk (thrice) sparks a 10-0 Moorpark run to build a 16-5 lead in Game 4.

Tied 19-19, Orange Coast takes Game 1, 25-22, on five late Moorpark errors and outside hitter Poerava Gantt's final kill.

Kills by Una Siljegovic, Kasey Ullery and Rachel Olinyk spark a 8-2 Moorpark run for a 9-5 lead in Game 2.

UPDATE: Key kill by Chelsey Westphal sparks Moorpark to the final four points and a 25-19 win of Game 2. The match is split a game apiece.

The Ventura College women's soccer team makes history without the state's leading scorer, advancing to its first state Final Four by beating previously-unbeaten San Bernardino Valley 2-1 in the Southern California regional finals without Jazmarae Strozier.

Ventura was 0-4 in regional finals in its 14-year history.

Sophomores Jessica Fogeltanz and Alyssa McDonald scored the goals for VC.

The teams exchanged goals early in the second half as things picked up in the Southern California regional final at the VC Sportsplex.

The Wolverines equalized in the 50th minute on Elizabeth Tapia's strike from 20 yards out.

But Ventura regained the lead, 2-1, four minutes later when Alyssa McDonald tapped in from a scramble in front.

UPDATE: It's still 2-1 Ventura with 11 minutes to go.

Despite playing without the state's leading goalscorer, Jazmarae Strozier, the Ventura College women's soccer team is 45 minutes from its first trip to the state Final Four.

Jessica Fogeltanz's 31st-minute thunderbolt from Yadira Toraya's layoff gave the No. 2-seeded Pirates a 1-0 lead.

At the half, Ventura had three shots to SBVC's two, which included a free kick in the 39th minute forced Ventura goalkeeper Adi Pimental to punch over the crossbar.

Strozier suffered a knee injury scoring her third goal of the postseason and 30th goal of the year in Tuesday's 4-3 extra-time win over Santa Monica. She was questionable to play tonight and is not in uniform.

UPDATE: San Bernadino equalized just after halftime, but Ventura retook the lead, 2-1, minutes later. Trying to track down the goalscores.

After holding out against the top-ranked team in the nation for 56 minutes, the No. 4 Moorpark College women's soccer team fell to No. 1 Santiago Canyon in the Southern California regional finals Saturday afternoon in Orange.

The Raiders (16-1-4) conceded from Michelle Carels' corner kick 11 minutes into the second half.

Santiago Canyon, the top-ranked team in the national coaches poll, advances to its third state Final Four in four years next weekend in Sacramento.

Community College basketball

Condor Classic: Oxnard drops opener in Condor Classic by Ivan Yeo in Oxnard.

VC-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions: VC women earn win over Laney by Joe Curley via phone.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE MEN'S BASKETBALL

Condor Classic

Friday's quarterfinals

Fullerton 82, West Los Angeles 73 FINAL
San Bernardino Valley 93, Santa Barbara City 74 FINAL
Los Angeles Harbor 74, Ventura 78 FINAL
Compton 81, Oxnard 75 FINAL

Saturday's semifinals
7 p.m.: Compton vs. Fullerton
5 p.m.: Los Angeles Harbor vs. San Bernardino Valley
Saturday's consolation semifinals
3 p.m.: Oxnard vs. West Los Angeles
1 p.m.: Ventura vs. Santa Barbara City

COMMUNITY COLLEGE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

VC-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions

Friday's quarterfinals

Santa Monica 64, Sequoias 57 FINAL
Canyons 80, Taft 44 FINAL
Ventura 75, Laney 60 FINAL
Mount San Antonio 70, Imperial Valley 54 FINAL

Saturday's semifinals
7 p.m.: Santa Monica at Ventura
5 p.m. Mount San Antonio vs. Canyons
Saturday's consolation semifinals
3 p.m.: Taft vs. Imperial Valley
1 p.m. Laney vs. Sequoias

The Oxnard College men's soccer team played quite a schedule this fall.

It turns out that the Condors faced the final five teams left in the Southern California regional playoffs.

"They beat us up a little, but it was a great eye opener on how college teams should function," said Oxnard coach Ross Greaney.

Oxnard opened its season with losses to No. 3 Cerritos and No. 2 Mount San Antonio, who played each other a year ago in the state final. Saturday, they play for a state Final Four berth.

Oxnard drew with No. 1 Rio Hondo 4-4 on Sept. 8 -- meaning the Condors opened their season against what would become the Top 3 seeds in the Southern California regional playoffs -- and beat No. 4 Santa Ana 5-1 on Sept. 22.

The regional semifinal between Rio Hondo and No. 8 Canyons, which swept Oxnard in WSC play, was postponed until Wednesday, when COC beat the top seed 4-2 to earn a regional final trip to Santa Ana.

The Moorpark College men's soccer team which held out for 79 minutes Tuesday at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, before falling 1-0 after a player was sent off, was eliminated by the No. 1 ranked team in the final national coaches poll for the regular season.

Click the jump for the full poll.

History is in the offing today in the Southern California regional finals.

The No. 2-seeded Ventura College women's soccer team (18-3-1) bids for its first trip to the state Final Four against No. 3 San Bernardino Valley (20-0-4) at the VC Sportsplex at 5:30 p.m.

For all its success in the Western State Conference over the past 14 years, Ventura, ranked No. 14 in the national coaches' poll, has continued to search for its breakthrough in the regional soccer playoffs.

This is the first time a Ventura team has won two postseason games and the program is 0-4 in regional finals, although only the 1998 loss to El Camino was at home.

"You look at our record in the Elite Eight and we've not done too good," said Ventura coach Steve Hoffman. "We'd like this one."

You'd like the Pirates' chances behind sophomore Jazmarae Strozier, who extended her state high in goals to 30 with three goals in VC's playoff wins over Antelope Valley and Santa Monica.

But the Buena High product tweaked a knee her highlight-reel second goal Tuesday and is questionable to factor today.

"I'd say Jaz is 50-50, maybe 40-60 that she won't play," said Hoffman. "I've been told that if she plays, it'll be a bonus."

Strozier had several treatment sessions on her injury Friday and has another schedule for this morning.

"I know no idea what happened, but I know I will be fine," said Strozier Thursday. "If I can't play Saturday, I know that my team will get the job done."

Strozier's teammates have proven they aren't a one-player team with extra-time winners by Yadira Toraya and Alyssa McDonald in the first two playoff games and Hoffman ticked off the names of his other matchwinners -- Toraya, McDonald, Taylor Benton, Monique Orocio, and Lindsey Armenta, who is in form in central midfield.

Defender Taylor Steele, a converted forward, could also feature up front.

"All those kids are capable of doing it," said Hoffman. "The team will have to step up like they did the other day."

The No. 4 Moorpark College women's soccer team (16-0-4) can reach the state Final Four for the first time since 1994 by upsetting top-seeded Santiago Canyon (19-0-2) in Orange at 2 p.m.

The 1991 state champion Raiders faces a juggernaut in Santiago Canyon, which won the state title in 2006, played for the state title in 2007 and is currently ranked No. 1 nationally by the NSCAA.

"The nice thing is there is no pressure on our shoulders," said Moorpark coach Eric Privat. "Anything we do will be a bonus. But we've had an undefeated season and we want to go to the state championship."

When the Raiders won the WSC North in 2007, they eliminated powerhouse Long Beach City in the first round before being stopped 6-0 at Santiago Canyon.

"This team is kind of a mystery to us," said Ashley Cheney, Moorpark's sophomore captain and defender. "We're curious to see what makes them so good and I'm sure they're curious to see what makes us so good."

Privat knows this group is better suited to deal with the pressure the Hawks will provide by playing three up front and pumping in direct balls from defender Leslie Bryant.

"We've shown character against big teams," said Privat. "When we've had a lead, we were able to hold it. When we've fallen behind, we've been able to come back.

"Whether the game goes to 90 minutes or 120 minutes we'll be there."

Ventura lost 1-0 at Santiago Canyon on Sept 11.

"They're the most determined and most physical team we've faced," said Ventura coach Steve Hoffman.

But Moorpark has already surprised plenty of opponents in remaining unbeaten throguh 20 matches. It's even surprised itself.

"It was really awesome and really unexpected," said Cheney of the special season. "I don't think any of us were aware of our abilities as a team. I don't even think we realized how strong we were as a unit until we got towards the end.

"We played some really good teams, like Santa Barbara and Ventura, I don't know how we made it out alive. It's a great feeling and it's a great accomplishment."

The 20-match run has set up the Raiders against the top team in the nation.

"I'm looking forward to it," said Cheney. "It'll be a really good challenge for our team."

Steve Burkhart annually measures his Moorpark College women's volleyball team against the Orange County's best and Saturday night, against the Orange Empire Conference champion, is no different.

"When you can go and beat those teams," said Burkhart, "it's quite an accomplishment."

Looking for its first Great Eight berth since 2004, No. 4 Moorpark (20-2) hosts No. 5 Orange Coast (19-2) at Raider Pavilion at 7 p.m.

"Our girls are excited about the opportunity," said Burkhart.

Moorpark sophomores Una Siljegovic and Rachal Olinyk combined for 25 kills in the Raiders' three-game sweep of Mount San Antonio Tuesday, which also featured 42 assists by Olivia White and 13 digs and 12 digs, respectively, from Mimi Sander and Shakila Balkhi.

"We're coming off the match in which we probably played our best so far this season and we're expecting to play the same way (today)," said Burkhart. "That's just what we're going to do."

Orange Coast is a sophomore-laden team which has had success in five-game marathons, winning four of five.

"We've talked about trying to find a way to win three games," said Burkhart. "When it comes down to games that are close at the end, those are games that we're going to have to win somehow."

A win would propel the Raiders to the eight-team state tournament next week at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, the sight of three of Moorpark's four state tournament trips under Burkhart.

"It evokes that feeling again," said Burkhart. "What an exciting thing that is for the kids to be able to be there and be participating in that.

"I think those girls know that it's an experience they want."

There's no time for injuries and inconsistencies to get the locals down as the top-ranked team in the state comes for a visit.

The Oxnard College men's basketball team hosts the annual Condor Classic, which features Ventura College and No. 1 San Bernardino Valley.

"We want to put ourselves in a situation to play a meaningful game, like playing the No. 1 team in state," said Oxnard coach Jason Cunningham. "We feel like we have the ability to play at that level of competition."

Today's Condor Classic quarterfinals are Fullerton-West Los Angeles at 1 p.m,, No. 1 San Bernardino-Santa Barbara at 3 p.m., Ventura-Los Angeles Harbor at 5 p.m. and Oxnard-Compton at 7 p.m.

Also, the Moorpark College men's basketball team hosts local rival Los Angeles Valley Saturday afternoon and the Oxnard College women's basketball team opens the Los Angeles Pierce tournament today in Woodland Hills.

Last year, the Ventura College men's basketball team used an upset of San Bernardino Valley in the Condor Classic final to springboard to 14 wins in 15 games.

This year, this weekend is about regrouping for the Pirates.

"I look at this tournament as a chance for us to regroup in a sense and start to establish ourselves as a team," said Cowen. "This whole weekend is about us. Establishing defense, rebounding and flow on offense."

No team has it tougher than Ventura, which has opened 1-5 with four losses of 10 points or less and is missing two starters in Jeremiah Slowik (thumb, ankle) and Troy Watson (hand, knee).

"It's been challenging," said coach Will Cowen. "It's a 1-5 where if 30 seconds would have gone differently in a game here and there we'd be 3-3 and not having this conversation.

"That's how close we've been."

Watson and Slowik, who was hurt in a career-high 22-point, six-rebound performance against Imperial Valley, are two of VC's three leading scorers.

The good news for the Ventura College men's basketball team (1-5) is that freshman point guard Paul Batausa has recovered from a calf injury and, with the end of the VC football season, the Pirates have added 6-foot-7, 270-pound Mike Melonas and active wing Antavius Sims.

"We will have some very interesting debuts this weekend," said Ventura coach Will Cowen.

Cowen recruited Melonas when he was at Ventura High. His addition gives the Pirates the ability to play a 6-7, 6-8, 6-9 front line with Pierce Brooks, Melonas and Eysan Toole.

"It's going to take him a little while to get his feet into basketball, but he can play," said Cowen. "He has very soft hands. He rebounds well."

Sims, the Ventura quarterback, is an intriguing athlete.

"He's an energy player on the perimeter," said Cowen. "He's electric, he's much like he is at quarterback.

"It's going to take him a little while to learn out system, but he will instantly help us athletically."

The Ventura College-Kiwanis Tournament of Champions seems set up for a familiar Sunday afternoon showdown this weekend.

Beginning today, No. 1-ranked Ventura College women's basketball team hosts its annual eight-team tournament, which includes No. 2 Mount San Antonio College.

Lifted by tournament-title wins in over the Mounties Ventura and Visalia, the Pirates raced unbeaten to the state Final Four last season.

"Those games last year made the point clear that we were a good team," said Ventura coach Ned Mircetic. "It left no doubt in everyone's mind."

"Mount SAC has been the dominant team for the better part of six or seven years now.

You're going to have to deal with them. To be able to play them twice and beat them both teams by double digits in very hard fought games... those are signature wins."

That said, Mircetic added, last year's results are meaningless this weekend.

"It's all irrelevant this year," said Mircetic. "We have to play Friday's game against Laney with the same intensity and preparation that we would against Mount SAC."

Today's quarterfinals are Sequoias-Santa Monica at 2 p.m., Taft-Canyons at 4 p.m., No. 1 Ventura-Laney at 6 p.m. and No. 2 Mount SAC-Imperial Valley at 8 p.m.

The Pirates (3-0) are in the dark in preparation for Laney, which has yet to play a game this season.

"And we thought we started late," said Mircetic Wednesday. "I don't know anything about Laney."

Freshman Gabrielle Conn has joined four sophomores, Amanda Padilla, Erika Ward, Chanelle Brennan and Kris King in the Ventura College women's basketball team's starting lineup.

The 5-foot-10 forward from Saugus High celebrated her collegiate debut last weekend with 18 rebounds Saturday against Santa Ana, including 15 in the first half.

"I don't remember, in all my years, somebody getting 15 rebounds in one half," said coach Ned Mircetic.

"She has a knack of meeting the ball at the right place at the right time. It's not something she's learned here. It's something she's brought here and you hope that's something that rubs off her teammates."

The Ventura College women's basketball team's surprising 64-47 win over No. 4 Fullerton Sunday in the final of the Vaquero Invitational at Glendale College changed the way the Pirates look at themselves.

"I thought we were going to get killed," said sophomore Erika Ward. "I was kind of shocked with how well we played.

"I think we can repeat that and play like that consistently, it's just a matter of doing it."

Coach Ned Mircetic has watched the video several times this week trying to figure out what happened.

It showed the coach just how good his team can play this season.

"We did it with good passes, we did it with good cutting... good floor spacing... good rebounding... good defense," said Mircetic. "We did it with everything we work on in practice every day, so it can be repeated."

The Pirates may called on for a repeat performance Sunday in a potential No. 1 versus No. 2 showdown with Mount San Antonio College.

Oxnard College men's basketball guard Nick Molina will miss the rest of the season after undergoing hand surgery this week, according to Condors head coach Jason Cunningham.

The St. Bonaventure High product, who averaged 6.1 points last season as a freshman, needed a pin to anchor torn thumb ligaments.

"He's taking a medical redshirt," said Cunningham.

Molina was thrust into big minutes last year after point guard Ryan McLucas suffered a season-ending knee injury. Now without Molina in the backcourt, McLucas will be forced to shoulder a bigger load.

"It's like last year," said Cunningham. "Ryan went out last year after the fourth game at (Los Angeles) Harbor and Molina filled in. Now it's the reverse situation with Nick done after the fourth game."

Oxnard (2-3) hosts the annual Condor Classic this weekend at the Condor Center.

Community College women's soccer

Southern California regional semifinals

Moorpark, VC still kicking:

Moorpark 1, Cypress 1 (MC 4-3 on PKs): Rappazzo, Raiders respond under pressure by Joe Curley in Moorpark.

Ventura 4, Cypress 3 (aet): Pirates prevail in overtime against Santa Monica on McDonald's goal by Danny Page in Ventura.

Community College women's volleyball

Southern California regional semifinals

Moorpark 3, Mount San Antonio 0: Moorpark sweeps into regional final by Joe Curley in Moorpark.

Men's soccer

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Semifinal results, Tuesday

No. 8 Canyons 4, No. 1 Rio Hondo 2 (Wed.)
No. 4 Santa Ana 3, No. 5 Golden West 2 (aet)
No. 3 Cerritos 3, No. 6 Los Angeles Harbor 2
No. 2 Mount San Antonio 1, No. 10 Moorpark 0

Final pairings, Saturday

No. 8 College of the Canyons at No. 4 Santa Ana
No. 3 Cerritos at No. 2 Mount San Antonio
(Winners advance to state Final Four in Sacramento, Nov. 4 and 6)

Women's soccer

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Semifinal results, Tuesday

No. 1 Santiago Canyon 1, No. 8 Cerritos 0
No. 4 Moorpark 1, No. 5 Cypress 1 (MC wins 4-2 on PKs)
No. 3 San Bernardino Valley 1, No. 6 Los Angeles Pierce 0
No. 2 Ventura 4, No. 7 Santa Monica 3 (aet)

Final pairings, Saturday

No. 4 Moorpark at No. 1 Santiago Canyon, 2 p.m.
No. 3 San Bernardino Valley at No. 2 Ventura, 5:30 p.m.
(Winners advance to state Final Four in Sacramento, Nov. 4 and 6)

Community College women's volleyball

Southern California regional semifinals, Tuesday

No. 1 Pasadena City def. No. 16 Antelope Valley, 3‐2 (25‐12, 19‐25, 25‐17, 20‐25, 15‐8)
No. 2 El Camino def. No. 15 San Diego Mesa, 3‐0 (25‐20, 25‐23, 25‐20)
No. 3 Santa Barbara def. No. 14 Fullerton, 3‐1 (18‐25, 25‐19, 25‐21, 25‐20)
No. 4 Moorpark def. No. 13 Mt. San Antonio, 3‐0 (25‐12, 25‐11, 25‐15)
No. 5 Orange Coast def. No. 12 Palomar, 3‐0 (25‐18, 25‐17, 25‐13)
No. 6 Cypress def. No. 11 Cerritos, 3‐0 (25‐13, 25‐16, 25‐21)
No. 7 Irvine Valley def. No. 10 Golden West, 3‐0 (25‐16, 25‐15, 25‐10)
No. 8 Bakersfield def. No. 9 Riverside, 3‐2 (25‐14, 22‐25, 25‐14, 21‐25, 15‐9)

Southern California regional finals, Saturday
No. 8 Bakersfield (18-5) at No. 1 Pasadena City (23-1)
No. 5 Orange Coast (19-2) at No. 4 Moorpark (20-2)
No. 6 Cypress (20-4) at No. 3 Santa Barbara City (21-2)
No. 7 Irvine Valley (15-4) at No. 2 El Camino (24-2)

(Winners move on to state tournament, Dec. 4-6)

Northern California regional semifinals, Tuesday

No. 1 Sacramento City d. No. 16 Napa Valley, 3‐0 (25‐16, 28‐26, 25‐13)
No. 2 Foothill d. Yuba, 3‐0 (25‐17, 25‐16, 25‐10)
No. 3 San Joaquin Delta d. No. 14 Shasta, 3‐0 (25‐15, 25‐18, 25‐15)
No. 4 Fresno City d. No. 13 De Anza, 3‐0 (25‐16, 25‐18, 25‐13)
No. 5 Santa Rosa d. No. 12 Feather River, 3‐0 (25‐14, 25‐23, 25‐15)
No. 11 Cabrillo d. No. 6 Butte, 3‐1 (21‐25, 26‐24, 25‐17, 27‐25)
No. 7 Sierra d. No. 10 Porterville, 3‐2 (27‐25, 23‐25, 25‐22, 22‐25, 15‐6)
No. 9 Diablo Valley d. No. 8 Gavilan, 3‐2 (25‐19, 24‐26, 25‐18, 23‐25, 15‐13)

A year ago, Alyssa McDonald watched from the bench as the Ventura College women's soccer team's playoff run came to an abrupt end.

This season, McDonald extended the Pirates postseason.

McDonald scored in the 103th minute as the Ventura College women's soccer team won twice in a postseason for the first time in its 14-year history with a 4-3 extra-time win over visiting Santa Monica College in the Southern California regional semifinals Tuesday night at the VC Sportsplex.

"We made history at Ventura College this year," McDonald, said, "We made it past the second round and we're going to go all the way this year."

After Ventura College missed two golden scoring opportunities midway through the first period of extra time, McDonald, who missed the 2008 postseason with a broken foot, took a pass just inside the penalty area, turned her defender around and slid a powerful low strike just beyond the grasp of the Santa Monica goalkeeper.

No. 2 Ventura will host No. 3 San Bernardino Valley, which beat No. 6 Los Angeles Pierce 1-0, Saturday in a Southern California regional semifinal.

(reporting from Danny Page)

No. 4 Moorpark College women's volleyball team sweeps No. 13 Mount SAC, 25-11, 25-11, 25-15 to advance to Saturday's regional final.

With strike partner Jazmarae Strozier on the bench with a leg injury, Alyssa McDonald restores the Ventura College women's soccer team's lead for, 4-3, in the 103rd minute.

After VC missed two golden opportunities midway through the first period of extra time, McDonald put the Pirates in front or a second time with a stunning solo effort reminiscent of Strozier.

McDonald took a pass just inside the penalty area, turned her defender around and slid a powerful shot just beyond the grasp of the Santa Monica goalkeeper.

UPDATE: Ventura still leads 4-3 in the 113th.

Rachel Olinyk's kill wraps up the second game for the Moorpark College women's volleyball game, 25-11.

The Raiders are a game away from moving on to Saturday's regional finals.

The No. 4 Moorpark College women's volleyball team won the first game of its Southern California regional semifinal with No. 13 Mount San Antonio College at Raider Pavilion 25-11.

Mount SAC scored five of the first seven points at Raider Pavilion. Una Siljegovic had Moorpark's first five points

Tied 8-8, Moorpark reeled off 13 of 14 points to take a 20-9 lead and force a Mounties timeout.

Game 1 ended where it started, with an Siljegovic kill.

Salgado's free kick with six minutes to play ties the match for Santa Monica, 3-3, at Ventura.

And Strozier is off the field and laying on the trainer's table. Not a good sign for the Pirates.

It's getting exciting at the VC Sportsplex. Xochitil Salgado equalized in the 59th minute for Santa Monica College, but Strozier restored the lead for the Ventura College women's soccer team, 3-2, three minutes later.

The Pirates continued to dominate play in the opening of the second half as Santa Monica didn't see a scoring opportunity until a corner kick in the 59th minute.

But that's all it took.

Santa Monica sophomore Salgado's near-perfect corner kick swerved untouched past Pirate goalie Aslyn Rau and evened the game at 2-2.

Again Strozier came to the rescue with a superb individual effort. Strozier fought off two defenders 20 yards from goal and curved the ball around McElroy, off the crossbar, and into the net to put the Pirates back in front, 3-2.

It was a world-class goal for the state's leading scorer.

(Danny Page reporting from Ventura)

The Ventura College women's soccer team leads visiting Santa Monica 2-1 at the half in the Southern California regional semifinals.

Sophomore Jessica Fogeltanz scored from Strozier to give Ventura a 2-1 lead in the 34th minute.

It was a well-worked team goal. Jennifer Arauz-Martinez played a short ball into Strozier, who swung a low cross into the penalty area. Lindsay Armenta stepped over Strozier's pass which fell perfectly for Jessica Fogeltanz, who slotted the ball home from 15 yards to put Ventura in the lead.

The Ventura College women's soccer team leads visiting Santa Monica 2-1 at the half in the Southern California regional semifinals.

Sophomore Jessica Fogeltanz scored from Strozier to give Ventura a 2-1 lead in the 34th minute.

It was a well-worked team goal. Jennifer Arauz-Martinez played a short ball into Strozier, who swung a low cross into the penalty area. Lindsay Armenta stepped over Strozier's pass which fell perfectly for Jessica Fogeltanz, who slotted the ball home from 15 yards to put Ventura in the lead.

Santa Monica takes the lead on the No. 2 Ventura College women's soccer team as Santos Tejada scores the opener in the 10th minute.

After a lengthy spell of dominant play from the Pirates, Tejada, a freshman, took a through ball on the right-hand side of the penalty area and chipped over on-rushing Pirate goalkeeper Aslyn Rau to put the Corsairs in front 1-0.

No. 7 Santa Monica is already only team to win at the VC Sportsplex this season.

But Ventura sophomore Jazmarae Strozier, the state leader in goals, equalizes five minutes later with her 29th goal of the season.

The Pirates seemed stunned after Santa Monica's opening goal, but turned to their star to pull them level.

Strozier found herself double-teamed on the edge of the penalty area but swept the ball to the right and fired a stunning 20-yard strike inside the near post to tie the game.

UPDATE: Sophomore Jessica Fogeltanz scores from Strozier to give Ventura a 2-1 lead in the 34th minute.

It was a well-worked team goal. Jennifer Arauz-Martinez played a short ball into Strozier, who swung a low cross into the penalty area. Lindsay Armenta stepped over Strozier's pass which fell perfectly for Jessica Fogeltanz, who slotted the ball home from 15 yards to put Ventura in the lead.

Kendall Dryer equalized from Ashley Cheney's free kick with 12 minutes to play and goalkeeper Katie Rappazzo came off the bench to save the game-clinching spotkick as the No. 4 Moorpark College women's soccer team moved past No. 5 Cypress 4-2 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw Tuesday afternoon in Moorpark.

The Raiders (16-0-4) advance to a Southern California regional final Saturday against top-seed Santiago Canyon (19-0-2) which features two of the state's three remaining unbeaten teams.

Santiago Canyon defeated No. 8 Cerritos, the two-time defending state champion, 1-0 in a rematch of the 2007 state final.

Two of today's four local semifinals are in the books. We'll have live coverage of the Ventura College women's soccer and Moorpark College women's volleyball teams semis at 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., respectively, here and on the Twitter feed down the right side of the page.

After holding out for 79 minutes, the Moorpark College men's soccer team finally conceded to No. 2 Mount San Antonio College in Walnut.

The score is now final. Mount SAC will host one of two regional finals Saturday.

More to come.

Kendall Dreyer, whose heroics at Ventura clinched the WSC North for the Moorpark College women's soccer team, is a playoff hero as well.

Dryer scrambled home a corner with 12 minutes left as the Moorpark women equalized, 1-1, against visiting Cypress.

Regulation is over. The teams will now play extra time. .

Cypress forward Angie Silva pounced on a Moorpark mistake at the back to give the visitors a 1-0 lead in the 51st minute in the women's soccer regional semifinal.

No score at the half in Moorpark and Walnut.

No breakthrough in Moorpark, where No. 4 Moorpark College women's soccer team is hosting No. 5 Cypress.

Nor in Walnut, where the No. 10 Moorpark College men's soccer team is visiting defending state finalist Mount San Antonio.

Four local community college teams play regional semifinals today. We'll have all the live updates here and on the Twitter, which is feeded down the right hand side of this page.

Here's the schedule:

Community College men's soccer
Southern California regional semifinals: At 2 p.m.: Moorpark at Mount
San Antonio.

Community College women's soccer
Southern California regional semifinals: At 2 p.m.: Cypress at
Moorpark. At 5:30 p.m.: Santa Monica at Ventura.

Community College women's volleyball
Southern California regional semifinals: At 7 p.m.: Mount San Antonio
College at Moorpark

Coach Steve Burkhart on his Moorpark College women's volleyball team's regional semifinal Tuesday night against No. 13 Mount San Antonio College (13-8) at Raider Pavilion:

"I don't know what's wrong with them. They've lost their last two games."

"I know they play in a tough conference. We're in a bracket with three teams we know little about."

Ventura College women's soccer coach Steve Hoffman on the No. 2 Pirates' regional semifinal Tuesday against No. 7 Santa Monica:

"We feel good about it. They're a good side. They've not given up many goals. One of their key players is out, a forward who was a handful when we played them."

Ventura sophomore Jazmarae Strozier on Tuesday's regional final against the Santa Monica College women's soccer team, which beat the Pirates 2-1 in September.

"We have the opportunity to erase that loss."

(On Ventura's 2-1 extra-time win over Antelope Valley Saturday)

"It's always scary to be tied. But I never felt like we were going to lose. It brought out the heart that we needed in the team."

(On being seeded No. 2 despite not winning the WSC North)

"We'd trade a conference championship for a state championship every day. Our whole team knows that it can be state champions. I feel like it can do it."

The Ventura College women's soccer team is always aiming for that historic run to the state Final Four.

To get one step closer, these Pirates will need to break new ground for the program.

Despite all its success, coach Steve Hoffman's team has yet to win twice in a postseason. In the playoffs for the 14th straight season, the Pirates are 0-8 in their second game of the Southern California regional playoffs.

To make things more interesting, No. 2 Ventura (17-3-1) hosts the only team to win at the VC Sportsplex this season. No. 7 Santa Monica (13-3-6) beat the Pirates 2-1 Sept. 20. Tonight's kickoff is at 5:30 p.m.

Ventura is one of four local teams to play regional semifinals today. The No. 4 Moorpark College women's soccer team (15-0-4) hosts three-time state champion Cypress (17-3-2), the No. 5 seed, at 2 p.m.

Having survived the all-county matching with Oxnard, No. 10 Moorpark College men's soccer (12-6-2) visits No. 2 Mount San Antonio (16-1-3), the 2007 state champion and 2008 state finalist, in Walnut at 2 p.m.

No. 4 Moorpark College women's volleyball (19-2) hosts No. 13 Mount San Antonio College (13-8).

With the women's soccer and women's volleyball teams hosting postseason games and men's soccer on the road, Tuesday should be a memorable day at Moorpark College.

Today's winners advance to Saturday's regional finals. The soccer Final Four is Dec. 4 and 6 at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento. The volleyball Great Eight is Dec. 4-6 at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton.

Two of the top women's basketball teams in Southern California, No. 1 Ventura (2-0) and No. 4 Fullerton (5-0) meet for the final of the Vaquero Invitational at Glendale College.

No. 1 VC women's basketball wins the Vaquero Invitational at Glendale College with a 64-47 win over previously unbeaten Fullerton

Second half

0:00 64-47 Final score
2:25 62-40 Brennan 3-point play
3:30 59-37 Brennan layup
4:56 57-34 update
6:23 55-28 update
10:40 53-24 King's layup caps a 22-6 second half run for the Pirates.
11:50 49-24 Brennan to the rack.
14:00 47-24 Gabrielle Conn's 3-point play
15:50 41-22 Kris King's 11th and 12th points of the game make it an 19 point game.
18:35 34-20 Amanda Padilla's 3-pointer pushes the lead back out to 14.

First half

0:00 31-18 VC leads by 13 at the break.
1:28 31-14 Brennan makes two techinal free throws
3:00 27-11 Brennan makes two free throws.
4:30 25-11 Kris King makes a nice move inside.
5:42 23-11 Chanelle Brennan gets to the line with VC leading by 12.
10:00 19-8 Brenda Van Someren for two.
12:00 17-6 But now Ward has two fouls.
12:20 17-6 Ward's layup pushes VC up 11. She has 10 points.
14:10 13-4 Ward's 3-pointer pushes VC up 9 early.
14:50 10-4 Ward gets to the line with Ventura leading 10-4.
17:18 7-2 Ward 3-pointer
18:19 4-0 Kris King scores to put VC up, 4-0.

Golden West 37, Ventura 36
Orange County Rooster Bowl
Ventura 0 7 7 15 7 -- 36
Golden West 0 14 0 15 8 -- 37
Second quarter
VC -- Sims 1 run (Stampler kick), 13:06.
GW -- Blake 16 pass from VanDeripe (Torres kick), 8:57.
GW -- Williams 1 run (Torres kick), 0:40.
Third quarter
VC -- Morris 6 run (Stampler kick), 11:00.
Fourth quarter
GW -- Spencer 3 run (Torres kick), 12:39.
VC -- Karam 14 pass from Sims (Stampler kick), 8:45.
VC -- Safety, punt snapped out of end zone, 7:40.
VC -- FG 23 Stampler, 3:45.
GW -- VanDeripe 22 run (Blake pass from VanDeripe), 0:26.
VC -- FG 30 Stampler, 0:00.
Overtime
VC -- Holcomb 11 pass from Sims (Stampler kick).
GW -- James 23 pass from VanDeripe (Spencer rush).
TEAM STATS VC GW
First downs 26 22
Rushes-yards 50-259 30-90
Passing yards 230 221
Comp-Att-Int 16-25-0 21-35-3
Sacked-yards lost 1-1 3-4
Punts-avg. 2-32.5 2-36.0
Fumbles-lost 3-2 0-0
Penalties-yards 13-96 8-81
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING -- Ventura: Sims 19-96, Morris 13-78, Bostic 7-39, McPherson 4-23, Gunter 2-17, Herbert 2-10, Karam 1-3, Team 2-(--3 00-000. Golden West: Williams 16-52, VanDeripe 10-51, Spencer 2-4, Team 2-(--17).
PASSING -- Ventura: Sims 16-25-0-230. Golden West: VanDeripe 21-35-3-221.
RECEIVING -- Ventura: Karam 5-100, Herbert 3-40, Parham 2-17, Holcomb 2-13, Washington 1-25, Gunter 1-22, Leith 1-9, Morris 1-4. Golden West: Blake 8-73, James 5-68, Grissom 3-38, Williams 2-13 Cogburn 2-10, Lugwig 1-19.
MISSED FIELD GOALS -- Ventura: Stampler 31 (blocked).
TEAM RECORDS -- Ventura 7-4, Golden West 7-4

Moorpark College women's volleyball coach Steve Burkhart on the Southern California regional playoffs, in which the Raiders were seeded No. 4 Sunday:

"We don't know too much about (semifinal opponent) Mount SAC. We haven't had much contact with them. I'm sure they've got good players.

"This is probably one of the strongest 1-16 draws that we've had in a long time. Usually, you're down to 12-13 and there are some teams that have struggled, but 12-16 teams this year are equally of capable of winning matches."

The Moorpark College women's volleyball team (19-2), the Western State Conference North Division co-champion, was seeded No. 4 in the Southern California regional playoff pairings released Sunday morning.

The Raiders will host No. 13 Mount San Antonio (13-8) Tuesday night in a regional semifinal at Raider Pavilion.

The WSC North earned two of the Top 4 bids as co-champion Santa Barbara (20-2) was seeded No. 3.

The full field:

No. 16 Antelope Valley (14-4) at No. 1 Pasadena City (22-1)
No. 9 Riverside (17-10) at No. 8 Bakersfield (18-5)
No. 13 Mount San Antonio (13-8) at No. 4 Moorpark (19-2)
No. 12 Palomar (16-4) at No. 5 Orange Coast (18-2)
No. 14 Fullerton (11-11) at No. 3 Santa Barbara City (20-2)
No. 11 Cerritos (14-7) at No. 6 Cypress (19-4)
No. 10 Golden West (13-10) at No. 7 Irvine Valley (14-4)
No. 15 San Diego Mesa (16-6) at No. 2 El Camino (23-2)

Men's soccer

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Quarterfinal scores, Saturday

No. 8 Canyons 2, No. 9 Santa Barbara City 1
No. 5 Golden West 2, No. 12 San Diego City 0
No. 4 Santa Ana 5, No. 13 Cypress 0
No. 3 Cerritos 2, No. 14 Palomar 1
No. 6 L.A. Harbor 3, No. 11 Compton 1
No. 10 Moorpark 1, No. 7 Oxnard 0
(No. 1 Rio Hondo and No. 2 Mount SAC had byes)

Semifinal pairings, Tuesday
No. 8 Canyons at No. 1 Rio Hondo
No. 5 Golden West at No. 4 Santa Ana
No. 6 Los Angeles Harbor at No. 3 Cerritos
No. 10 Moorpark at No. 2 Mount San Antonio

Women's soccer

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Quarterfinal scores, Saturday

No. 1 Santiago Canyon 4, No. 16 Santa Ana 0
No. 8 Cerritos 4, No. 9 San Diego Mesa 0
No. 5 Cypress 3, No. 12 Orange Coast 0
No. 4 Moorpark 2, No. 13 San Diego Miramar 1
No. 3 San Bernardino Valley 3, No. 14 Bakersfield 1
No. 6 Los Angeles Pierce 2, No. 11 Mount San Antonio 1
No. 7 Santa Monica 2, No. 10 Riverside 0
No. 2 Ventura 2, No. 15 Antelope Valley 1 (ET)

Semifinal pairings, Tuesday

No. 8 Cerritos at No. 1 Santiago Canyon
No. 5 Cypress at No. 4 Moorpark
No. 6 Los Angeles Pierce at No. 3 San Bernardino Valley
No. 7 Santa Monica at No. 2 Ventura

Click the jump for the full release from the JC Athletic Bureau.

Here's all the scores from around the state Saturday:

Southern California Championship Quarterfinals:
Southern California Bowl at Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut:
No. 1 seed Mt. San Antonio (10-1) 69, No. 8 Los Angeles Pierce (7-4) 31
Golden Empire Bowl at Bakersfield College:
No. 4 seed Bakersfield (10-1) 24, No. 5 Allan Hancock (9-2) 21
American Bowl at Fullerton College:
No. 2 seed Fullerton (10-1) 49, No. 7 Los Angeles Harbor (9-2) 19.
National Bowl at Cerritos College, Norwalk:
No. 6 seed Palomar (9-2) 31, No. 3 Cerritos (9-2) 17
--Winners advance to semifinals, to be hosted by higher seeds, Nov. 28.
No. 4 Bakersfield (10-1) at No. 1 Mt. San Antonio (10-1), t.b.a. ;
No. 6 Palomar (9-2) at No. 2 Fullerton (10-1), t,b,a,.
--Southern California championship game is Dec. 5. CCCAA state championship is Dec. 12 (at College of San Mateo).

Additional Southern California Bowls, Nov. 21:

Beach Bowl at El Camino College, Torrance:
Grossmont (8-3) 27, El Camino (8-3) 22
Orange County Bowl at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa:
Golden West (7-4) 37, Ventura (7-4) 36 (OT)
Western State Bowl at Saddleback College, Mission Viejo:
Saddleback (9-2) 31, Canyons (6-5) 20

State Playoffs, Saturday, Nov. 21:
Northern California Championship / NCFA North Region Championship Game,
Bulldog Bowl at College of San Mateo:
College of San Mateo (10-1) 31, Reedley (6-5) 20
College of San Mateo (10-1) earns right to host the California Community College Athletic Association championship game, Dec. 12, at 1 p.m. (time tentative).

Additional Northern California Football Association Division Championship Bowls, Nov. 21:

Eagle Bowl at Laney College, Oakland / Central Division Championship:
Sacramento (6-5) 40, Laney (8-3) 17
South Division Championship Bowl at De Anza College, Cupertino:
De Anza (7-3) 48, Redwoods (4-7) 13

Additional Northern California Bowls:
Premier West Bank Bowl at Sierra College, Rocklin:
Butte (8-3) 22, Sierra (5-6) 15
Graffiti Bowl at Modesto JC:
Modesto (7-4) 54, San Jose (7-4) 13
Silicon Valley Bowl at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills:
Foothill (8-3) 44, San Joaquin Delta (5-6) 21
State Center Bowl at Radcliffe Stadium, Fresno:
Fresno (7-4) 45, Mendocino (6-5) 31
Upcoming, Dec. 5: San Francisco Community College Hawaiian Punch Bowl at CCSF:
CCSF (9-1) vs. American River (6-4), 1 p.m.

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.

Chris Spencer's two-point conversion run in overtime pushed Golden West past the Ventura College football team, 37-36, at the Orange County Rooster Bowl at LeBard Stadium in Costa Mesa. .

Playing in the 10th bowl game in school history, Ventura finished its season 7-4, despite quarterback Antavius Sims completing 16 of 25 passes for 230 yards and two touchdowns and running for another 92 yards and a score.

Just getting to overtime took a special finish for the Pirates.

Trailing 29-26 in the final moments, Sims was tackled out of bounds with no time on the clock on the Golden West 27.

But a personal foul on his tackler gave the Pirates an untimed down on the Rustlers' 12, which enabled Tyler Stampler to force overtime with a 30-yard field goal.

On the first possession of overtime, Sims found tight end Michael Holcomb for a 11-yard touchdown pass, but Golden West matched it with a 23-yard Mike VanDeripe strike to Matt James.

Golden West kicker Eric Torres was roughed on the extra point and Nick Mitchell elected to give Spencer the chance to decide the game from a yard-and-a-half away.

Down 21-14, the Ventura College offense produces a huge drive.

A 15-yard pass to Nick Karam and a 15-yard run by Gabe Bostic gives Ventura, trailing 21-14 with 8:55 left, a first down on the Golden West 11.

Sims finds Karam on a slant with a 14-yard scoring strike to tie the score, 21-21, with 8:45 to play.

Pinned in a punting situation, Golden West snaps the ball out of the end zone for a safety. Ventura now leads 23-21 with 7:40 left.

UPDATE: Ventura took the free kick and drove the Rustlers' 5-yard line, but were forced to take a 23-yard Stampler field goal and a 26-21 lead with 3:45 to play.

Rheanna Crawford equalizes for Antelope Valley in the 74th minute. The VC women's soccer team is now in a 1-1 battle.

Chris Spencer's 3-yard touchdown run on fourth and 2 gives Golden West a 21-14 lead with 12:39 to play at LeBard Stadium.

After Ventura dominated possession in the third quarter, Golden West retakes the lead with a 10-play, 75-yard drive.

Trailing 14-7 at the half, Ventura running back Dominic Morris gains 15 and 19 yards before his 6-yard touchdown run pulls the Pirates even 14-14 with 11:00 left in the third quarter of the Orange County Rooster Bowl.

Ventura lead 7-0 when it fumbled on its own 20-yard line. The Rustlers took advantage with a 16-yard VanDeripe scoring strike to Byrce Blake on third and 6 with 8:58 left in the first half.

Golden West got the ball back and took a 14-7 halftime lead behind running back Harold Williams, who scored from a yard out to cap a 14-play, 83-yard drive.

UPDATE: Ventura drives 51 yards on 12 plays but the drive ends on fourth and 3 when Sims is stopped for a 2-yard gain to the GW 27. Score is tied, 14-14, after three quarters.

James Ennis had 16 points, 13 rebounds and six assists tonight as the oxnard College men's basketball team improved to 3-3 with a 74-68 win over visiting Los Angeles Harbor at the Condor Center.

Jazmarae Strozier, the state goalscoring leader, converts a free kick to give the No. 2 Ventura College women's soccer team a 1-0 lead on No. 15 Antelope Valley in the 30th minute of the Southern California quarterfinal.

Quarterback Antavius Sims gives the Ventura College football team a 7-0 lead with a 1-yard TD sneak with 13:06 left in the second quarter.

The score was set up by Sims' 22-yard pass to Brandon Gunther.

Ventura moved the ball effectively in an eventful, if scoreless first quarter. The Pirates' Chad Kurz and Deslonde Brown stopped good Golden West drives with interceptions.

After a 47-yard post play from Sims to Nick Karam, Ventura kicker Tyler Stampler had a 31-yard

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 Moorpark College soccer teams owned Saturday afternoon's Southern California quarterfinals.

The visiting Moorpark men edged cross-county rival Oxnard, 1-0, on a 20th minute Oxnard own goal, when an attacking move by Moorpark strikers Gerardo Espinoza and Kevin Sanchez was deflected into the Condors net by an Oxnard defender.

The host Moorpark women got past No. 13 San Diego Miramar, 1-0. Natalee Flugum headed home Sinead Vaughan's near-post corner kick in the final minute of the first half.

Both teams advance to Tuesday's Southern California semifinals. The No. 10 Moorpark men will visit Mount San Antonio College, the 2007 state champion and 2008 state finalist. The No. 4 Moorpark women will host Orange County opposition, either No. 5 Cypress, a state powerhouse, or No. 12 Orange Coast.

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.

Building on the roundup in today's paper:

The Ventura College women's basketball team opened its season with a 64-44 win over Los Angeles Southwest in the first round of the Vaquero Tournament at Glendale College on Friday.

Erika Ward scored 23 points, including five 3-pointers, and had four assists. Chanelle Brennan had 14 points and Kris King grabbed 10 rebounds.

Gabrielle Conn also contributed seven points and six rebounds and Amanda Padilla had eight points and five assists as Ventura, which had 19 assists as a team, opened up a 56-28 lead with 8:51 left in the second half.

VC plays Santa Ana today at 5 p.m. in a semifinal game of the three-day tournament.

Palomar 62, Moorpark women 33:The Raiders (2-3) didn't get their San Diego trip off to a good start against one of the top teams in the state.

Community College men's basketball

Long Beach City 76, Ventura men 69: Troy Watson scored 15 points, Pierce Brooks had 13 points, six rebounds and three blocks and Paul Batausa had six assists as Ventura (1-5) went two and out in the Irvine tournament.

Moorpark men 69, Orange Coast 64:Dallas Rutherford scored 23 points, Matt Mazarei added 13 and Spencer Schulte 10 as Moorpark (1-3) won its first game of the season.

Building on the roundup in today's paper:

The Ventura College women's basketball team opened its season with a 64-44 win over Los Angeles Southwest in the first round of the Vaquero Tournament at Glendale College on Friday.

Erika Ward scored 23 points, including five 3-pointers, and had four assists. Chanelle Brennan had 14 points and Kris King grabbed 10 rebounds.

Gabrielle Conn also contributed seven points and six rebounds and Amanda Padilla had eight points and five assists as Ventura, which had 19 assists as a team, opened up a 56-28 lead with 8:51 left in the second half.

VC plays Santa Ana today at 5 p.m. in a semifinal game of the three-day tournament.

Palomar 62, Moorpark women 33:The Raiders (2-3) didn't get their San Diego trip off to a good start against one of the top teams in the state.

Community College men's basketball

Long Beach City 76, Ventura men 69: Troy Watson scored 15 points, Pierce Brooks had 13 points, six rebounds and three blocks and Paul Batausa had six assists as Ventura (1-5) went two and out in the Irvine tournament.

Moorpark 69, Orange Coast 64:Dallas Rutherford scored 23 points, Matt Mazarei added 13 and Spenser Schulte 10 as Moorpark (1-3) won its first game of the season.

Ventura College football
Postseason history (3-6)
1935 SoCal title playoff -- Riverside 16, Ventura 13
1965 Elks Bowl -- Santa Ana 18, Ventura 16
1980 Mission Bowl -- Saddleback 9, Ventura 3
1981 SoCal Bowl -- L.A. Harbor 50, Ventura 45
1984 Ventura Bowl -- Ventura 28, Grossmont 9
1989 Hall of Fame Bowl -- Palomar 21, Ventura 20
1998 WSC Bowl -- Ventura 23, West L.A. 14
1999 SoCal title game -- Hancock 20, Ventura 13
2007 Southern California Bowl -- Ventura 39, Palomar 35
2009 Orange County Rooster Bowl -- Ventura vs. Golden West at Orange Coast, Costa Mesa, 6 p.m.

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

Click here for my preview of today's three local Southern California regional matches between four county teams, "County rivals set for playoff battle."

No. 7 Oxnard hosts No. 10 Moorpark at 2 p.m.

"We've been able to score goals and they've been able to score goals," said Moorpark coach Sean Roche. "It's going to be a good game, a little bit different than a run-of-the-mill league game."

"Like all Oxnard teams, we usually have the ball," said Oxnard coach Ross Greaney. "We have a lot of possession and we play pretty well on the ball."

No. 9 Ventura (7-3) vs. No. 14 Golden West (6-4)
Orange County Rooster Bowl
LeBard Stadium, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, 6 p.m.
LAST WEEK: Ventura 41, Moorpark 28; Golden West 56, Southwestern 10.
SERIES HISTORY: The series is tied, 2-2, after Ventura swept consecutive meetings in 2005 and 2006.
GAME FACTS: Known more for its volleyball and water-sport programs, Golden West has long been a footnote on the football field. But the longtime stepchild of the former Mission Conference ended 34 years without a bowl berth by winning its final six games. After winning six of its first seven games, Ventura saw its playoff hopes dashed by consecutive losses to Bakersfield and Hancock, but the Pirates put it back together last week with a resolute Citrus Cup performance. Ventura is fourth in total defense (271.7 ypg) and No. 10 in rushing defense (96.2 ypg). Ventura was even more dominant defensively until injuries to key defensive personnel like Travaun Nixon (38 tackles, 6 ints.), Brenden Daley (58 tackles, 2 sacks) and Derrick Clune (38 tackles, 3.5 sacks). Daley and Clune returned last week, but DL Tommy Stuart (29 tackles, 9.5 for losses) limped off. Behind QB Mike VanDeripe (198-of-331 passing, 2,640 yards, 25 TDs, 10 ints.) and RB Harold Williams (99 att., 550 yards, 7 TDs), the Rustlers have a potent offense averaging 34.1 points. Meanwhile, the Rustlers haven't allowed more than 21 points in a game since Sept. 26, a span of six games. WRs Bryce Blake (66 rec., 895 yards) and Brandon Grissom (42 rec., 667 yards) have caught 8 TDs each. Blake leads the region in receptions. Only five teams in SoCal have thrown for more yards. Golden West also leads the region in pass defense (157.4 ypg) , which has been the Pirates' lofty position over the past two seasons, and turnover margin (plus 21). The Rustlers, who have been flagged a region-low 518 yards in penalties, don't make many mistakes, Behind RBs Dominic Morris (113 att., 543 yards, 5 TDs, Gabriel Bostic (84 att., 330 yards, 1 TD) and Kraig McPherson (50 att., 207 yards, 1 TD), plus QB Antavius Sims (124 att., 487 yards, 9 TDs), Ventura is No. 7 in rushing offense (183.6 ypg). But the Sims (82-of-145 passing, 1,097 yards, 9 TDs, 5 ints.) is coming off one of his better passing games, especially to WR Nick Karam (38 rec., 545 yards, TDs).

The Ventura College men's basketball team fell to 1-4 with a frustrating 63-53 loss to Imperial Valley Thursday night in Irvine despite a career high 22 points and six rebounds from Jeremiah Slowik and 10 points from Jordan Harris.

"We couldn't hit a shot," said coach Will Cowen. "We're not playing very well right now."

Ventura, which was just 8 of 18 from the line, faces Long Beach City in Friday's consolation semifinals. Imperial Valley improved to 1-0.

A loss would get the Pirates hope for Saturday night's playoff women's soccer game with Antelope Valley, rather than watching the football team's Orange County Bowl game against Golden West in nearby Costa Mesa.

With the most difficult football season in school history finally in the rearview mirror, the Moorpark College football team nears a fork in the road.

Coming off the first 0-10 season in school history, the Raiders can elect to remain in Southern California Football Association's top tier, the National Division, over the next two seasons or choose to step down into the lower tier, the American Division.

Schools have until Nov. 30 to make their appeal to the SCFA's competition committee, according to commissioner Jim Sartoris. Moorpark coach Jim Bittner said he would meet with athletic director Howard Davis next week to discuss the future of the program.

Asked his opinion, Bittner gave arguments for both sides before saying, "If I have the final word, we're going to stay (in the top tier) and fight."

"Recruiting is going to be a tough, tough thing (after going 0-10)," said Bittner. "But I sort of like staying where we are because at least I know the opponents.

"We have to make a quick decision."

The lower tier may seem perfect for a program on a school-record 11-game losing streak, but Moorpark, behind record-breaking quarterback Ian Shultis, was competitive to the bitter end of a winless season, tied 20-20 in the fourth quarter of losses at Pasadena City and Glendale and taking possession twice in the final four minutes of Saturday's Citrus Cup loss to Ventura with a chance to beat rival Ventura.

Plus, the talented freshmen who weathered the 2009 season would give the Raiders a fighting chance to win in 2010 as hungry, battle-hardened sophomores.

"Personally, I feel like we can compete against the teams that we played this year," said Shultis, the Thousand Oaks High product who broke nearly every Moorpark passing mark as a freshman. "I know our record shows that we didn't have the best season, but... I want to play the best teams out there and I want to stay in this league."

The SCFA competition committee reviews the schools' appeals and makes a reconferencing recommendation to Sartoris, who will make a final decision early next year.

"We just have to see who applies to move either up and down," said Sartoris. "Besides records, the competition committee is going to look at a lot of things, like the history of the program, the number of people on rosters, the number of full-time coaches

"There's a lot of inequities between our colleges and the main goal is to create competitive balance."

With that in mind, the coaches association disbanded the traditional conferences to create the two-tiered SCFA, modeled on the three-tiered structure in Northern California, before the 2008 season. This is its first round of reconferencing.

Moorpark has won 12 Western State Conference titles, made 17 postseason appearances and is just two years removed from perhaps the best two-year period in school history, when the Raiders won 19 games and made consecutive appearances in the Southern California regional playoffs.

"They have a great tradition there," said Sartoris.

Moorpark already decided to suspend its tradition-laden wresting program in August. If Moorpark did step down into the American Division, it would look like a match for the Pacific Division, which features local rivals Los Angeles Pierce and Valley. Pierce went on to win the division this fall after beating Moorpark for the first time in 25 years, 37-20, Sept. 5.

Two years into the experiment that is the Southern California Football Association, the football coaches association will be tinkering under the hood, considering several other structural changes during the offseason.

Commissioner Jim Sartoris said there was "strong sentiment" to make two major changes to the format of the Southern California regional playoffs.

Over the past two years, the champions of the lower-tier American Conference received automatic bids to the eight-team regional playoffs, the winner of which faced the winner of a two-team Northern California regional playoff in the state title game.

The result was state title game between a Southern California champion playing its 14th game and a Northern California champion playing its 12th game.

"It's difficult to play 14 games because of wear and tear," said Sartoris. "There's some negatives to that. Usually you're playing right into the middle of December and your students are in finals."

Satoris said there was a "good chance" that the future, in both regions, could see a four-team playoff field seeded by the coaches' poll, rather than automatic bids.

"There is consideration for that to happen," said Sartoris. "Everything is on the table right now."

Another proposal is an eight-team regional field seeded by the coaches' poll, without automatic bids for conference champions.

Under that plan, El Camino (8-2) and Saddleback (8-2) -- two of the top teams in the state who finished third in top-tier conferences -- would have made the playoffs this year instead of Pacific Division-winner Pierce and Mountain Division-winner Los Angeles Harbor of the lower tier.

The coaches association's executive committee will meet soon after the New Year to determine the final proposal for the COA Board to consider in the spring, according to Satoris.

"By Jan. 15, we'll have a position in our association," said Satoris. "There's a lot of things going on. "

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).

WSC standings and statistics through Mon, Nov. 16:

WSC VOLLEYBALL
NORTH WSC PCT. GF GA SEASON PCT.
S Barbra 8-1 .889 25 6 19-2 .905
Moorpark 8-1 .889 26 5 18-2 .900
Ventura 5-4 .556 17 15 10-10 .500
Cuesta 4-5 .444 15 16 7-13 .350
Hancock 2-7 .222 6 22 6-12 .333
Oxnard 0-9 .000 2 27 5-11 .313
KILL PERCENTAGES (GP) ATT. KILLS ERRORS PCT.
1. Jen Waddill, Santa Barbara (80) 349 201 32 .484
2. Nicole Bergmann, Santa Barbara (80) 285 157 37 .421
3. Reisa Fessler, Bakersfield (73) 661 305 80 .340
4. Lindsey Wilcox, Canyons (73) 302 158 61 .321
5. Kaitlyn Henry, Cuesta (72) 173 69 16 .306
6. Mackenzie Sullivan, Cuesta (72) 679 286 85 .296
7. Danica Lawrence, Citrus (63) 255 121 48 .286
8. Corissa Alvarez, Bakersfield (70) 276 117 40 .279
9. Una Siljegovic, Moorpark (68) 518 221 78 .276
10. Kayla Cribbs, Cuesta (72) 380 152 48 .274
17. Kasey Ullery, Moorpark (63) 240 88 28 .250
19. Dominique Franz, Oxnard (22) 110 44 17 .245
20. Rachel Olinyk, Moorpark (67) 417 182 81 .242
26. Justine O' Connor, Ventura (72) 272 87 26 .224
Shanna Wright, Oxnard (22) 107 34 10 .224
28. Shakila Balkhi, Moorpark (67) 513 171 57 .222
30. Kayla Phipps, Ventura (67) 369 148 74 .201
32. Chelsea O' Mara, Ventura (58) 389 151 76 .193
38. Sandra Alvarez, Ventura (59) 226 75 43 .142
41. Anne Westbrook, Ventura (70) 260 83 50 .127
47. Shelbee Younce, Ventura (70) 564 153 96 .101

WSC MEN'S WATER POLO
TEAM WSC SEASON
Ventura (1) 4-0 19-5
Cuesta (2) 3-1 20-14
L.A. Valley (3) 1-3 10-16
Citrus (4) 2-2 14-15
Santa Monica (5) 0-4 1-21
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONSLS
Cuesta 13, Ventura 12
Long Beach City 17, Cuesta 6
Riverside City 11, Cuesta 8

WSC WOMEN'S WATER POLO
TEAM WSC SEASON
Ventura (1) 4-0 18-5
Citrus (2) 3-1 15-11
Cuesta (3) 2-2 12-19
Santa Monica (4) 1-3 7-18
L.A. Valley (5) 0-4 5-20
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONALS
Long Beach City 7, Ventura 6

WSC MEN'S SOCCER
TEAM WSC POINTS SEASON
S Barbra 9-1-4 31 9-6-5
Canyons 9-3-2 29 12-6-2
Moorpark 9-4-1 28 11-6-2
Oxnard 7-4-3 24 11-6-4
LA Missio 7-4-3 24 10-8-3
Hancock 3-8-3 12 5-12-4
Glendale 3-10-1 10 5-14-2
Citrus 0-13-1 1 2-16-2
SEASON SCORING LEADERS GOALS ASSISTS POINTS
1. Andres Bueno, Canyons 21 10 52
2. Rosario Bras, Hancock 13 4 30
3. Nate Lytle, Oxnard 10 5 25
4. Jorge Serrano, Canyons 8 7 23
5. Emigdio Ramirez, Oxnard 7 6 20
6. Danny Molineaux, Santa Barbara 7 5 19
Armando Torres, Allan Hancock 3 13 19
8. Tito Anguiano, Oxnard 8 2 18
9. William Velasquez, L.A. Mission 8 1 17
Ahmad Yacoub, L.A. Mission 7 3 17
11. Max Madrigal, Oxnard 7 2 16
13. Jose Garcia, Moorpark 6 3 15
16. Gerardo Espinoza, Moorpark 6 2 14
17. Sam Nellis, Oxnard 5 3 13
20. Jerry Ponce, Oxnard 5 2 12
Fernando Zandarin, Moorpark 5 2 12
25. Jonathon Martinez, Oxnard 1 9 11

WSC WOMEN'S SOCCER
NORTH WSC PTS. SEASON
Moorpark 8-0-2 26 14-0-4
Ventura 8-1-1 25 15-3-1
S Barbra 5-3-2 17 10-4-6
Cuesta 4-5-1 13 5-11-3
Oxnard 2-8 6 3-14-1
Hancock 0-10 0 0-16
WSC SCORING TOTALS GOALS ASSISTS POINTS
1. Jaz Strozier, Ventura 27 3 57
2. Kelly Deckers, Santa Barbara 17 8 42
3. Terryn Soelberg, Bakersfield 17 5 39
4. Alyssa McDonald, Ventura 7 18 32
Monique Orocio, Ventura 13 6 32
12. Yadira Toraya, Ventura 5 8 18
16. Taylor Benton, Ventura 7 1 15

Bakersfield wrapped up the conference by winning at Canyons. Ventura wrapped up third place and a non-playoff bowl berth by pulling out the Citrus Cup late, which left Moorpark winless for the first time in school history. Pasadena wrapped up fifth place by winning the San Gabriel Valley game with Glendale.

Week 10 Scores
Ventura 41, Moorpark 27
Bakersfield 24, Canyons 9
Pasadena City 38, Glendale 22
Hancock, bye

Week 10 Standings
Bakersfield 9-1 6-0
Hancock 9-1 5-1
Ventura 7-3 4-2
Canyons 6-4 3-3
Pasadena City 5-5 2-4
Glendale 4-6 1-5
Moorpark 0-10 0-6

Week 11 Schedule

First-round SoCal playoff/bowl games - Nov. 21 (seedings based on final SoCal rankings)

Southern California Bowl at Mt. San Antonio College (Walnut), Time TBA
#1 Mt. San Antonio (9-1, Central Conference champios) vs. #8 L.A. Pierce (7-3, Pacific Conference co-champion)

American Bowl at Fullerton College, Time TBA
#2 Fullerton (9-1, Southern Conference champion) vs. #7 L.A. Harbor (9-1, Mountain Conference co-champion)

National Bowl at Cerritos College (Norwalk), Time TBA
#3 Cerritos (9-1, Central Conference runner up) vs. #6 Palomar (8-2, Southern Conference runner up)

Golden Empire Bowl at Bakersfield College, 3 p.m.
#4 Bakersfield (9-1, National Conference champion) vs. #5 Allan Hancock (9-1, National Conference runner up)

Winners advance to Southern California semifinals, to be hosted by higher seed on Nov. 28. SoCal Championship scheduled for Dec. 5 at higher seed, State Championship on Dec. 12 at NorCal champion.

Bowl Games - Nov. 21 (non-playoff games)

Orange County Bowl at Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa), 5 p.m.
Ventura (7-3, Northern Conference third place) vs. Golden West (6-4, Mountain Conference co-champion)

Western State Bowl at Saddleback College (Mission Viejo), Time TBA
Saddleback (8-2, Southern Conference runner up) vs. Canyons (6-4, Northern Conference fourth place)

Beach Bowl at El Camino College (Torrance), Time TBA
El Camino (8-2, Central Conference third place) vs. Grossmont (7-3, Southern Conference fourth place)

The Ventura College men's basketball team falls to No. 3 Antelope Valley 69-59 in the consolation final of the "We Play Hard" tournament.

The Oxnard College men's basketball team currently trails 41-39 to Orange Coast at halftime of the third-place game.

Cal Lutheran football coach Ben McEnroe, on his team's opening-round Division III playoff game at 9-0 Linfield College of McMinnville, Ore.:

"Linfield's a program with a lot of tradition and we're excited to have an opportunity to compete with those guys. They've played some common opponents, so we've seen them on film when they played Occidental. ... I think we're going to like what we see. Obviously, any time you can go through a schedule where you're 9-0, they're going to be solid and be all that we can handle.

"But I feel good. We're healthy and looking forward to the challenge."

The teams have three common opponents: Williamette, Occidental and Pacific Lutheran. CLU lost its opener at Willamette 20-13; Linfield won 30-27, also at Willamette. Both won at Occidental (24-14 for CLU, 31-27 for Linfield) and at home against Pacific Lutheran (49-7 for CLU and 62-44 for Linfield).

It will be the third time the teams have met, all in the postseason. The previous meetings were first-round NAIA playoff games, with CLU winning 29-28 at home in 1977, and Linfield winning 20-16 at home in 1982.

Ventura 41, Moorpark 28
42nd Citrus Cup game
SCFA Northern Conference
Ventura 0 21 6 14 -- 41
Moorpark 0 7 14 7 -- 28
Second quarter
VC -- Morris 33 run (Stampler kick), 13:14.
VC -- Karam 12 pass from Sims (Stampler kick), 6:06.
VC -- Trueblood 3 run (Stampler kick), 4:31.
MC -- Gant 21 pass from I. Shultis (Z. Shultis kick), 0:16.
Third quarter
MC -- Gant 17 pass from I. Shultis (Z. Shultis kick), 10:53.
VC -- Karam 46 pass from Sims (Stampler pass failed), 10:35.
MC -- Gant 7 pass from I. Shultis (Z. Shultis kick), 0:29.
Fourth quarter
VC -- Morris 13 pass from Sims (Stampler kick), 11:52.
MC -- Hussey 7 pass from I. Shultis (Z. Shultis kick), 7:10.
VC -- Brown 34 interception return (Stampler kick), 0:26.
Team stats VC MC
First downs 18 23
Rushes-yards 43-203 26-82
Passing yards 116 305
Comp-Att-Int 8-14-0 37-57-1
Sacked-yards lost 2-21 1-7
Punts-avg. 6-40.2 5-44.6
Fumbles-lost 1-1 2-2
Penalties-yards 6-59 8-88
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING -- Ventura: Morris 15-80, Karam 2-41, McPherson 5-31, Sims 11-30, Bostic 7-16, Sanders 1-14, Trueblood 1-3, Parham 1-0. Moorpark: Mesa 20-41, Shultis 4-39, Garcia 1-2, Okechuk 1-0.
PASSING -- Ventura: Sims 8-14-0-116-3. Moorpark: Shulits 37-57-1-305.
RECEIVING -- Ventura: Karam 3-69, Herbert 2-21, Morris 2-20, Leith 1-6. Moorpark: Gant 12-120, Garcia 10-90, Hussey 5-29, Mesa 5-27, Yabu 4-28, Bradley 1-11.
MISSED FIELD GOALS -- Ventura: Stampler 41.
TEAM RECORDS -- Ventura 7-3, 4-2; Moorpark 0-10, 0-6.

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.

Dalon Brown 37-yard interception return for a touchdown with 26 seconds to play clinched Ventura College's 41-28 win in the 42nd Citrus Cup game, which relegated host Moorpark to the first winless season in school history.

The final twist of a frigid evening of fluctuating momentum came five plays after Moorpark, needing seven points to halt a school-record 10-game losing streak, took over on its own 5-yard line with 2:02 to play.

Brown was spying Moorpark receiver Chris Gant, who caught 13 passes for 128 yards and three touchdowns to push his state-leading total to 16 touchdown receptions.

"I was playing him close," said Brown of Gant. "I knew he was the favorite target."

The Raiders (0-10) season of infamy was confirmed with one final miscommunication.

"It's the small things that have hurt us all season," said Moorpark quarterback Ian Shultis, who completed 36 of 57 passes for 310 yards and four touchdowns. "I called a slant. He thought it was a fade. Just another miscommunication."

Dominic Morris ran for 86 yards and a touchdown and caught the game-winning touchdown pass with 11:52 to play as Ventura (7-3) broke a two-game losing streak to sew up third place in the SCFA Northern Conference and a non-playoff bowl berth with its first winning streak over its cross-county rival in 23 years.

Ventura, which also evened the series 21-21, last beat Moorpark in consecutive seasons in 1984-85. Moorpark had won 19 of the previous 23 meetings.

Moorpark and Ventura exchange three and outs and fumbles and suddenly the Raiders, trailing 27-14, take over on the Ventura 36.

Shultis converts a fourth and 4 from the VC 28 with a 15-yard pass to Andre Garcia.

Another fourth down conversion for Shultis, a 6-yard touchdown pass to Gant, pulls Moorpark within 27-21 with 29 seconds left in third quarter.

Gant now has three touchdown catches in the game and a state-high 16 on the season.

Moorpark opens the half with a 13-play, 70-yard scoring drive capped by a 17-yard Shultis scoring strike to Chris Gant to pull Moorpark within 21-14 with 10:53.

But after a long kickoff return from Jeremiah Stewart, Ventura needs only one play to make it 27-13 as Sims hits Nick Karam with a 47-yard scoring strike. A bad snap foils the point after.

Moorpark responds with a 14-play, 78-yard drive that finishes with a 21-yard Shultis scoring strike to Gant with 16 seconds left in half.

Gant leads the state with now 14 touchdown receptions.

Shultis has completed 16 of 24 passing for 141 yards. Ventura has rushed for 129 yards on 25 attempts.

The Ventura College football team takes a 7-0 lead on Dominic Morris' 34-yard touchdown run on third and 1 with 13:14 left in the first quarter.

UPDATE: Ventura takes a 21-0 lead on Sims 11-yard touchdown pass to Nick Karam and 2-yard touchdown run by Kraig McPherson with 4:25 left first half.

Ventura takes the kickoff and goes three and out with quarterback Antavius Sims throwing incomplete on third down.

Vying to break its 10-game winning streak, Moorpark drives 69 yards to the VC 6-yard line with three Ian Shultis completions to Chris Gant and Jonathan Mesa.

But a penalty and two negative plays are followed by a 41-yard missed field goal as the air goes out of the balloon for the Raiders.

Ventura picks up its first pair of first downs, but the Pirates are forced to punt the ball back to the Raiders with 4:01 left in the quarter.

After a Moorpark booming punt, Ventura takes over at its 10. But Gabriel Bostic runs for 18 and 12 and Dominic Morris gains 14 as VC is in Moorpark territory for first time

Kickoff nears for the 42nd Citrus Cup football game. The captains are at midfield.

You can follow live on Twitter, score updates here on the blog or live radio at HomefieldSports.com.

Click the jump for the year-by-year history of the Citrus Cup, which is about to kick off its 42nd game at Griffin Stadium in Moorpark.

Mixed results in the second day of the "We Play Hard" men's basketball tournament at Ventura College today.

Moorpark College dropped to 0-3 with a 78-73 loss to No. 3 Antelope Valley. Two tough losses this weekend for the Raiders

In the other consolation semifinal, a 16-3 run allowed Pasadena City to pull within 72-70 of Ventura College with 6:39 to play.

But the Pirates (1-2) held on for their first win of the season, 88-82, over the Lancers. Troy Watson had 20 points and Jordan Harris had 17.

Ventura will play Antelope Valley in Sunday's consolation final at noon. AVC eliminated VC in the state quarterfinals in 2005 and state semifinals in 2007.

Oxnard trails Los Angeles Valley, 44-38, in the first semifinal. James Ennis has 10 points.

Stanford running back Toby Gerhart on Stanford's record-breaking 55-21 win over USC this afternoon:

"It feels great. That's a testament to our offensive line. They get after it week in and week out. We feel like we can run power on anybody and get after anybody.

"This is something we'll always remember, you know? Come down here to the Coliseum and put up big points and win."

"It feels good to come down here, put up good numbers and maybe show them a little bit that they missed out on me."

The Cal Lutheran University football team defeats rival Redlands, 30-21, Saturday afternoon to clinch the SCIAC championship outright.

It's the first time CLU has gone unbeaten in SCIAC play.

The Kingsmen earn the conference's automatic NCAA Division III playoff berth. They will hear about their first-round opponent Sunday at noon.

Stanford just scored to take a 55-21 lead with two minutes to play at the Coliseum.

It's the most points the USC football team has ever allowed at home.

Toby Gerhart has 178 yards and three touchdowns rushing.

The biggest previous home loss in the Pete Carroll era was by 5 points.

Stanford has now won in consecutive trips to the Coliseum. It has been the visiting victor in USC's last three home losses.

Those of you with Direct TV can watch former Ventura High running back Tyler Ebell in the CFL playoffs Sunday morning.

Ebell returns kicks and punts and also backs up starting running back DeAndre Cobb for the Hamilton Tiger-cats. He wears No. 15.

Hamilton play the British Columbia Lions Sunday morning in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. The game will be shown live on MSG+, which is DTV channel 635.

The nine losses have been a variety pack, from the early runaways to the late fourth-quarter breakdowns and tough breaks.

The Moorpark College football team is now down to its final swing, with cross-county rival Ventura looming as the willing executioner.

A win over the Pirates in the 42nd Citrus Cup game at Griffin Stadium tonight at 6 is the only escape the 0-9 Raiders have from their first winless season.

Moorpark has lost 10 straight games and 14 of its last 15 dating back to Sept. 2008.

"We've never gone into this game feeling like we couldn't win it," said Moorpark quarterback Ian Shultis. "We're just focused right now on winning this next game."

Shultis can break Farhaad Azimi's 10-year-old school mark for passing yards in a season with 343 yards. He's thrown for more than 300 yards in four of his six starts, including the past three, and has speedster Justin Bradley back from injury to go alongside Chris Gant, who leads the state with 13 touchdown receptions.

"I have great respect for their two wide receivers and their quarterback is very good at getting rid of the ball fast," said Ventura coach Jon Mack.

Suffering from a series of injuries to its powerful defense, including cornerback Travaun Nixon, linebacker Brenden Daley and defensive lineman Derrick Clune, Ventura (6-3) missed its chance for its first berth in the eight-team Southern California regional playoffs with consecutive losses to first-place Bakersfield and second-place Hancock.

"You never want to accept defeat and never want to feel good about losing but I was very proud with the effort of our football team showed last week and the character we showed it," said Mack. "I'm very proud of this team and what we've accomplished this year and the direction that the program is heading."

Mack's general assessment of the injury situation was "it's better."

"Instead of five guys watching practice who weren't going to be able to play, we have five guys watching practice we hope are able to play," said Mack. "But nothing is the same as live reps. Two weeks of inactivity is going to be difficult to overcome."

If the injured players aren't able to go, Ventura can fall back to freshman defensive linemen Tyler Williams and Taylor Ramsey, both of who played well in relief against Hancock.

While Mack has been worried about injuries, Moorpark coach Jim Bittner has been kept up at night by visions of Ventura quarterback Antavius Sims.

"That quarterback of theirs is a real pain," said Bittner. "He's a bigger threat when he pulls it down and runs with it than when he throws it, and he can throw it pretty good.

"We're worried about him."

Bittner has been surprised at the resiliency of his team, which was tied 20-20 in the fourth quarter in each of the past two games at Pasadena City and Glendale, only to stretch the losing streak on bad breaks.

Pasadena won 27-20 on an offensive fumble it recovered in the end zone while the Glendale game turned on a deflected interception.

"I think what happens with our guys, they've been in this thing and they give it a shot and something bad happens and we sort of fall apart," said Bittner. "Bad things happen in football games. You just have to play."

Yet the 54 remaining Raiders have come to practice each week to work towards that first win.

"You'd think they'd be despondent, but they're working hard," said Bittner. "They're doing everything we asked them to do. I just have to give them a different speech each week."
This week's planned inspiration?

"You can do something special here," said Bittner. "You can upset a pretty good football team and an archrival."

While deflecting history.

Sophomore guard Ryan McLucas had 20 points, 10 rebounds and the game-clinching free throws and sophomore wing Craig Lee added 18 points and nine rebounds as the Condors shocked No. 3 Antelope Valley, 69-65, Friday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the "We Play Hard" tournament at Ventura College.

"It's a new year," said Lee.

"And we're changing things around," said McLucas.

Oxnard (1-1) had dropped the opening game in the eight-team November tournament in each of the past six years by an average margin of 84-60.

"This just goes to show that we're a pretty good team," said Oxnard coach Jason Cunningham.

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.

Craig Lee scored 10 points and Ryan McLucas had seven as Oxnard opened a 29-16 lead on No. 3 Antelope Valley with 5:00 left in the first half of the opening quarterfinal of the "We Play Hard" men's basketball at Ventura College.

The Condors led 34-22 at the half behind 15 points from Lee and 7 points from James Ennis and Ryan McLucas.

Antelope Valley pulled to within six, 37-31, but 3s by Ryan McLucas, Bryce Showalter and James Ennis pushed Oxnard back ahead 48-37 with 10:10 to play.

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No. 12 Ventura (6-3, 3-2) at Moorpark (0-9, 0-5)
42nd Citrus Cup game
Griffin Stadium, 6 p.m.
LAST WEEK: Glendale 41, Moorpark 28; Hancock 28, Ventura 21.
SERIES HISTORY: Moorpark leads, 21-20, dating back to 1968. Ventura broke Moorpark's six-game winning streak with a 35-13 win last year.
GAME FACTS: Moorpark is a rivalry loss to Ventura away from the first winless season in school history and the Raiders' problems are visible in the numbers. Moorpark has allowed 44.2 points per game, the second-biggest average in Southern California, and has only six takeaways, the lowest figure in the region. Ventura, however, was dominant defensively until injuries to key defensive personnel like Travaun Nixon (38 tackles, 6 ints.), Brenden Daley (51 tackles, 2 sacks) and Derrick Clune (30 tackles, 3.5 sacks). Consecutive losses to first-place Bakersfield and second-place Hancock has dipped third-place Ventura to No. 5 in total defense (258.9 ypg) and No. 10 in rushing defense (97.8 ypg). DL Tommy Stuart remains a powerhouse, leading the team with 9.5 tackles for losses and 4.5 sacks. Moorpark's passing game, featuring QB Ian Shultis (177-of-342 passing, 1,938 yards, 18 TDs, 11 ints.) and WRs Chris Gant (52 rec., 691 yards, 13 TDs) and Justin Bradley (32 rec., 473 yards, 2 TDs) give the Raiders a puncher's chance. Despite a school record in passing attempts, Moorpark's patchwork offensive line has only allowed 20 sacks. Moorpark is No. 8 in passing (259.1 ypg) and Ventura is No. 2 in passing defense (161.1 ypg). Behind RBs Dominic Morris (98 att., 475 yards, 4 TDs, Gabriel Bostic (77 att., 314 yards, 1 TD) and Kraig McPherson (45 att., 176 yards, 1 TD), plus QB Antavius Sims (133 att., 457 yards, 9 TDs), Ventura is No. 7 in rushing offense (181.4 ypg).

Here's my preview of the "We Play Hard" basketball tournament at Ventura College, which features all three local program.s

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.