COLLEGE SOCCER

Centralia 1, Grays Harbor 0

Down a player for most of the second half, Grays Harbor College fell 1-0 to Centralia Community College at Tiger Stadium in Centralia on Saturday night.

Grays Harbor (0-3 NWAC West) allowed five shots on target in the first half but got out of the first 45 minutes unscathed as the game remained scoreless at the break.

Even with a full 11 players on the field in the first half, offense was hard to come by for the Chokers with only two shots registered before halftime.

Grays Harbor head coach Alan Carloza warned his team during the halftime break that teams typically look to apply pressure in the final 45 and told his team to expect the Trail Blazers (4-1 NWAC West) to be more aggressive the rest of the game.

True to his prediction, the Blazers scored the only goal of the game in the 46th minute. Joanna Pingel found some room to run and dribbled from midfield untouched and beat Chokers keeper Kristi Raffelson with a shot just inside the left post.

Following the goal, Carloza chastised his midfielders and fullbacks for conceding too much ground in what proved to be the decisive play of the game.

The Chokers didn’t allow another goal but had to play with 10 players on the field from the 60th minute onward. Grays Harbor’s Dominique Marin received her second yellow card of the match following an altercation involving Mercedes Denny and members of the Blazers.

Centralia’s Cassity Colard was also given a yellow card for her role in the fracas.

Carloza assured Marin that he was okay with the ejection under the circumstances. since it came in defense of a teammate.

The Chokers, who dressed 12 players for the match, will go into their next match with only 11 at their disposal.

For a team that has struggled to put a full lineup on the field and had to forfeit their last home match due to a lack of healthy players, Carloza said their circumstances the last half hour was familiar territory.

“It would have been nice to finish the game with 11, but it’s just an unfortunate situation. It was just a reaction. It’s an instinct to come and protect your player,” he said.

Grays Harbor will look for its first win of the year against Tacoma Community College on Saturday at Stewart Field in Aberdeen at 3 p.m.

Carloza said his team has put the rest of his team on notice with their scrappy play recently.

“These scores we’re getting right now come from girls out there battling,” he said. “We got three new girls that have never played soccer before. These teams used to come out here and think that these were easy games. We’re really battling and we’re not making it easy for anybody.”

Grays Harbor 0 0 – 0

Centralia 0 1 – 1

Top Players: Centrilia – Pingel (G, 46th minute); Grays Harbor – Raffelson (14 saves)

GIRLS PREP SOCCER

Adna 3, Ocosta 0

Ocosta limited the damage but couldn’t muster enough offense of its own in a 3-0 loss to Adna on Saturday.

Ocosta (2-2) got a good game from goal keeper Denny Martin, who came up with 13 saves on 16 shots faced.

Adna picked up two goals in the first half and found the back of the net again in the 72nd minute on a direct kick.

Despite the loss, Ocosta head coach Mike King said he was pleaded with the way his team executed.

“The girls carried out our game plan very well,” he said. (On) the two goals in the first half we made some positioning mistakes. We’ll fix that and keep improving as the season goes on.”

Ocosta will play Onalaska on the road at Monday in a match scheduled for 6 p.m.

Adna 2 1 — 3

Ocosta 0 0 — 0

PREP CROSS COUNTRY

Twin Harbors teams compete at Three Course Challenge

Prep distance runners from Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Elma and Ocosta high schools competed at the Three Course Challenge at Camp Rilea in Warrenton, Oregon on Saturday.

The meet, which featured dozens of prep, middle school and club teams from British Columbia, California, Oregon and Washington featured three courses of varying difficulty, providing Twin Harbors prep athletes a true test early in the season.

The Aberdeen boys squad was the only Twin Harbors school to field a team large enough to place in the team standings. The Bobcats finished 14th with 367 points in the boys 4,500-meter easy course race, 26th with 673 points in the 5,000m moderate race and 18th with 465 points in the 5,000m hard race.

Results for local atheltes are as follows:

Aberdeen

Boys 4500m — 18, Gary Sherman 16:19. 30, Joel Nelson 16:50. 110, Connor Reed 19:17. 178, Austin Stuckey 21:03. 244, Shane Ray-Braack 22:49. 261, Wyatt Kenoyer 23:32.

Boys 5000m Moderate — 99, Dante Jimenez 22:32. 187, Jacob Allison 24:50. 297, Ivan Ruvalcaba, 29:35. 306, James Blackburn 31:30. 317, Elnar Sharpe 34:17.

Boys 5000 Hard — 73, Jesus Junco 22:11. 145, Cruz Lopez 24:03. 206, Cody Fountain 25:47

209, Asarel Paez-Teran 25:53. 237, Will Boling 27:06. 238, Cristhian Armenta 27:07. 245, Nolan Jurasin 27:29. 247, Aiden Caswell 27:30.

Girls 4500m Easy — 199, Abby Councilman 30:33.

Girls 5000m Moderate — 139, Ciera Skelly 29:47

Girls 5000m Hard — 84, Skyler Taylor 28:56

Hoquiam

4500m Easy — 136, Timmy Higgins 19:53. 138, Alex Tomko 19:58.

5000m Moderate — 147, Cody Drake 23:46. 170, Emmett Bryon 24:34.

5000m Hard — 269, Colby Skulrood 28:43. 301, Christian Wimmer 52:21.

Girls 4500m Easy — 133, Amelia Moir 26:09. 135, Valerie Roloff 26:20. 187, Madison German 29:22.

5000m Moderate — 51, Macie German 26:17. 185, Mihn Thi Butler 35:04.

5000m Hard — 119, Jennifer Cole 31:21.

Elma

Boys 5000m Hard — 151, Tyler Bristow 24:11. 265, Joseph Geesaman 28:00.

Girls 5000m Hard — 112, Autumn Sayres 30:36.

Ocosta

Boys 4500m Moderate — 23, Dylan Todd 19:48. 60. Matthew Idso 21:02.

5000m Hard — 108, William Idso 23:09. 278, Cyrus Cardreon 29:22

Girls 5000m Moderate — 190, Josie Shank 36:34

Girls 5000m Hard — 61, Natalie Cain 27:32.

Grays Harbor goalkeeper Kristi Raffelson stops a low shot in the second half of a game against Centralia Community College in Centralia on Saturday. Raffelson made 14 saves in the Chokers 1-0 loss to the Trail Blazers. (Hasani Grayson | Grays Harbor News Group)