Women’s soccer loses close defensive struggle

Eagles drop tight 1-0 struggle against Cal State Los Angeles.

Joel Ashor, Sports Editor • September 1, 2018

Biola took on Cal State University Los Angeles Saturday, coming out on the wrong side of a 1-0 defensive battle. Freshman goalie Viviana Poli played a strong game, keeping the Eagles to one goal on seven saves, but the offense could not quite push through an equalizer.

Early in the game, CSULA converted a corner kick taken by Madison Mader that Paulina Chadez pushed past the goalie for what proved to be the winning goal in the seventeenth minute.

Biola had several opportunities on goal, taking three shots on goal and ten shots total. Junior forward Annmarie Alvarez tallied one shot on goal, with two shots that missed wide.

Junior defender Colie Martin took two shots on goal to lead the offense, also recording two other shots.

Junior forward Sarah Jeffries continued to create opportunities for the Eagles, as she has done all season, taking three shots that threatened to score.

The game turned into a defensive cat and mouse match, with neither team budging much. The second half was full of missed opportunities for both teams as the defenses looked to avoid any shots on goal.

Biola will continue play Thursday against Cal State University San Marcos at 2 p.m.

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Joel Ashor is a junior broadcast journalism major with a love for sports, friends, and history. Joel is a Notre Dame football, Angels baseball, and Boston Celtics fan. [email protected] Growing up in the small city of Santa Maria, California as the youngest of four boys, I was always surrounded by things much earlier than normal, due to the fact that I experienced things through my much older brothers. One of the things I experienced was sports, and when I started watching and seeing what it looked like to be on a sports team, I fell in love. In my family, sports is not really an option, it just is something that we all do. Luckily my parents never had to force me or my brothers to play sports because we all had a passion for it. From a young age I immersed myself in the culture of sports, watching any sport that was on, growing a particular liking to college football. My uncle attended the University of Notre Dame, and my whole family are die-hard Irish fans. Naturally I became one as well, and I remember Saturday mornings with the family quite clearly. As I grew older I began to see and understand more about what it took to broadcast a live sports game, and I became quite intrigued by it. I decided I wanted to be involved with sports for the rest of my life and cover it in some form. One of the sports commentators I look up to greatly and have always liked is NBC sports reporter Bob Costas, who is a jack of all trades broadcaster and covers all sports from the Olympics to football and many more. I aspire to be a broadcast journalist someday, and the Chimes is an excellent way to hone my skills and continue to practice writing and talking about sports. I look forward to my growth while working with the Chimes in reporting accurately and quickly, and cannot wait to cover Biola sports.

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