After a weekend of splitting doubleheaders with the Whittier Poets and the Redlands Bulldogs, the 1997 University of La Verne softball team opens up the season at 2-2.
Though the women's soccer team did not finish in first place in SCIAC, that does not mean it is not one of the best teams in the conference. That was noted after senior midfielder Jacqui Zwissler was awarded player of the year this week.
Not expecting a bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs, the University of La Verne women's soccer team took the field Saturday against the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas and did what they do best, they had fun playing the game of soccer.
The women's soccer team defeated Whittier College Saturday, 2-0, en route to the closing of the season tomorrow for one of the premier University of La Verne women's soccer teams ever fielded.
Capitalizing on on a 15 minute breakdown in La Verne's defense, California Lutheran University defeated the visiting University of La Verne women's soccer team 3-2 at home.
What could be a better way to start an important part of Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) play than with a solid win? A much better way would be to win three important games in a row, and that is what the women's soccer team has done in the past two weeks.