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Homestead boys, girls in CCS playoffs
By Dick Sparrer
The regular season may have ended last week for most high school soccer teams in the Santa Clara Valley. But not for Homestead.
Nope, the Mustangs will play on.
Both the Homestead boys and girls teams have qualified for the Central Coast Section playoffs.
The Homestead boys, second to Palo Alto in the De Anza Division of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League, have earned a place in the CCS Division playoffs. The Mustangs, 13-6-4 for the year, will open at home against Leland (12-7-2) on Feb. 16, 2:30 p.m., with the winner to face No. 1 seed Bellarmine (20-0-2) on Feb. 19, 2:30 p.m., at Cupertino.
The Homestead girls will play on in the CCS Division I playoffs. The Mustangs (18-2), champs of the SCVAL's El Camino Division, will open CCS against Gunn (12-5-2) on Feb. 19, noon, at West Valley Community College in Saratoga.
The Homestead girls won the title in the El Camino Division of the SCVAL, securing a 12-0 season with a lopsided 8-0 win over Santa Clara last week.
Senior Alisan Pabon buried three goals and added an assist, and Laura Phan had two goals and two assists to lead the Mustangs to the victory.
Christina Ignacio, Dianna Massey and Katie Morgan also scored goals in the win for Homestead. Wende Blasquez and Jessica Gates had two assists each and Aliza Elbert added one.
The victory was just one in a string of shutout wins for the Mustangs. Homestead had blanked Santa Clara 5-0, shut out Wilcox 2-0 and whitewashed Fremont 9-0 a week earlier.
Phan and Morgan each had a goal and an assist and Pabon, Ignacio and Sophia Rivera each scored goals in Homestead's 5-0 win over the Bruins. Megan Page added an assist in the win.
Goals by Rivera and Morgan and an assist from Blasquez were all Homestead needed in a 2-0 win over Wilcox.
The Mustangs came back to blast Fremont 9-0. Ashley Mason had two goals and an assist to lead Homestead, and Ignacio had a goal and two assists. Morgan, Gates, Katrien Brak and Page each had a goal and an assist. Rivera and Blasquez also scored goals and Elbert added an assist.
Tiffany Colen, Ann Dragich, Jennifer Falgade, Tatiana Gusmao and Ruchi Nandu are other members of the championship team.
The Homestead boys clinched second in the De Anza Division with a convincing 5-0 win over Milpitas last week.
Senior forward Owen Kennedy knocked in two goals to lead the Mustangs to the important victory. Lloyd Lee had a goal and an assist and Omar Gusmao added two assists. Michael Hack and Shadi Hawawini also scored goals in the win, and Brian Oliveira and Justin Bocchino had assists.
A week earlier, the Mustangs had locked up 1-1 with Lynbrook. Kennedy scored a first-half goal off an assist from Kent Suwa, but Lynbrook's Paul Wood matched that goal to help the Vikings to the tie.
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