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LOS ALAMITOS — Los Alamitos faced a stiff test against Villa Park’s high-pressure defense early in Tuesday evening’s CIF Southern California Regional girls soccer playoff opener.
A halftime adjustment took care of that, and the Griffins’ usual goal-getters were on target for a 2-0 Division I triumph that set up the first of potentially two rematches this week in Thursday’s semifinals.
Tabitha LaParl provided a 15th-minute lead and Colby Barnett scored near the finish as Los Alamitos (26-1-5), dominant after halftime, built a 14-1 shot advantage while creating nearly 20 chances to just two by the visiting Spartans (20-3-1).
Next up for Los Alamitos is a home game with Harvard-Westlake (18-1-6), which Los Al topped 3-0 in the Southern Section semifinals, and a win there could set up another showdown with JSerra (20-0-3) — a 3-0 winner over the Griffins in last weekend’s Southern Section title game — in Saturday’s final.
“(This is) 100 percent (a second chance),” said LaParl, who scored her 31st goal of the season after Leila Hijazi found her in space on the right just above the box. “I was very disappointed for us (in the JSerra loss). They’re a lot stronger than us, and we just didn’t show up, and it was really disappointing seeing that.
“We made some stupid mistakes, but we’ve just got to move forward. The past is the past. We could have a chance again to face them, and if we do, we know what do do.”
Los Alamitos struggled with its shape in the first half as Teryn Newkirk marked Jadenn Carrillo and Deepika Kooner, off the bench, stuck with Brianna Guerra, the Spartans’ other go-to attacker. Villa Park, behind midfielders Gracie Vanderschraaf and Tiana Salazar, kept winning balls in or at the edge of its attacking third but couldn’t turn that into viable chances.
Griffins coach Pat Rossi sacrificed a forward for another defender at the break, and the game was a mismatch the rest of the way. Barnett, with her 15th goal, sealed the victory in the 80th minute after LaParl played Newkirk into the box.
Harvard-Westlake, which challenged Los Alamitos with a high-pressure approach in the sectional semifinal, edged San Diego Section Open Division champion Carlsbad 3-2 in overtime Tuesday. JSerra thumped Central Section Division I titlist San Luis Obispo 3-0 and will meet San Diego runner-up Our Lady of Peace (20-4-2) in the other semifinal.
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