Pasadena City College's Cassandra Orozco, center, celebrates with Vanessa Capra (12) after scoring against Santa Monica in the second half of the Southern California Regional playoffs at Occidental College on Thursday. (Keith Birmingham / Staff Photographer)
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EAGLE ROCK - The Pasadena City College women's soccer team nearly did something it has not done in more than a decade: Win a CCCAA state playoff game.
But alas, that streak will remain intact until at least next year as visiting Santa Monica City College scored in the 14th minute of the first overtime to defeat the Lancers, 2-1, on Thursday afternoon at Occidental College's Jack Kemp Stadium.
"We played hard and dominated that game," freshman Cassandra Saavedra said. "We should have won."
Santa Monica's Tylor Fields took a long pass from Meg Pierce. Fields turned the corner on her defender and had a one-on-one look at the goal against Tatiana Sanchez. Her shot hit the far post and ricochetted into the goal.
"In overtime I think we were a little tired," Pasadena coach Randy Lilavois said. "We were on our back feet a little bit. She got behind us and unfortunately had the angle."
Pasadena is 3-6 in postseason play and has not won a playoff game since 2001.
The Lancers, who finished 12-5-3 and in second place in the South Coast Conference, had a chance to extend the game to a shootout.
"I thought we had a couple of good chances there at the end of the game to get it tied up," Lilavois said.
"Unfortunately we could not put it in."In the final minute of the second 15-minute overtime, Cassandra Orozco threw the ball in, but the Corsairs - who are 11-4-6 and face top seed and undefeated Santiago Canyon on Saturday - knocked the ball out again.
With the entire Pasadena team against the Santa Monica goal, Hallie White threw the ball in and it bounced back to White. She took a perfect touch pass that got by two teammates, Amanda Papac, who could not get her foot on a potential flick shot, and Saavedra, who was behind Santa Monica goalkeeper Cindy Godina and could not get to the ball.
Danielle Busta took a final shot, 15 yards away from goal, but it went over the net. The game was called.
Pasadena lost leading scorer Nancy Nunez to a knee injury 30 seconds into the game.
"It kind of threw off our momentum," Lilavois said "We were very excited to play the game and to see your forward go down was kind of a shock. It took us a little bit to recover from that, but I think they played amazingly well in the second half."
Santa Monica scored in the 44th minute of the first half on a Daysi Serrano chip.
Pasadena tied it off of a free kick 27 minutes into the second half. White's free kick went to Orozco, who put a head shot by Godina.
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