Thea Sofie Kanestrom

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• October 28, 2022

Let’s break from tradition, bust down the fourth-wall, and ignite this gamer with a little recognition, perhaps even a high-five or two, for one Taylor Gayer — a true Warrior, if there ever was one. Gayer, a senior, a great-spirit, and a comeback-kid all rolled into one, collected her first win as keeper on Sr. Night Thursday at the Great Park, where the Westcliff women’s soccer team celebrated in style with a 4-0 sheet of Providence Christian. The Warriors’ senior keeper finished with three saves in a complete-match, shutout performance.

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• October 25, 2022

It’s been a difficult week for the Westcliff women’s soccer team. Tuesday’s 2-1 win over Benedictine Mesa at the Great Park was the Warriors’ third contest in six days — with a seven-hour bus ride mixed in. It was unseasonably hot, their legs were tired, they tapped deep into the reserves. None of it mattered.

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• October 21, 2022

The Westcliff women’s soccer team has certainly found itself over the course of the past six Cal Pac contests, with a 4-0 win over at Park-Gilbert Thursday serving as the latest piece of evidence.

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• October 14, 2022

This is the team head coach Jack Gidney envisioned from the start. Tactically sound, collaborative and explosive, the Westcliff women’s soccer team is firing on all cylinders down the stretch. Thursday night at Soka, Westcliff racked up yet another clean sheet, and added six more goals. In its past five Cal Pac contests, all wins, Westcliff has turned in four shutouts and has outscored its opponents, 25-1. The 6-0 drubbing Thursday night was highlighted by stellar performances all around, perhaps none more impressive than Sierra Rangel’s.

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• October 08, 2022

The Westcliff women’s soccer team beat Cal Maritime by a touchdown and a field goal Saturday morning in Vallejo. The 10-0 drubbing of Cal Maritime got out-of-hand quickly.

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• October 07, 2022

For those unfamiliar with the northern part of the state, Angwin, the location of Pacific Uninon College, doesn’t really resemble the California you and I know.  It’s more like southern Oregon, lush evergreens forests and thick, long Bermuda grass — the type of turf that can easily frustrate a soccer player used to quicker playing surfaces. Such was the case for the Westcliff women’s soccer team Thursday in Angwin — but, no matter — the Warriors were able to find their footing and put away the Pioneers, 3-0. 

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• October 02, 2022

It was a heck of an afternoon at Championship Stadium Sunday, where the Westcliff women’s soccer team followed up the men’s clean sheet of Simpson with an impressive 3-1 win of its own.

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• September 28, 2022

The Westcliff women’s soccer team was cruising toward a nice nonconference win in Santee Wednesday afternoon, but a last-minute goal derailed those plans in a 2-2 tie at San Diego Christian.

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• September 22, 2022

The Westcliff women’s soccer team struggled in the box once again Thursday afternoon at the Great Park, where the Firebirds of USK pulled out the win, 2-0.

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• August 10, 2022

Last season, mercifully, is long over for the Westcliff women’s soccer team. It was a year of unprecedented bad luck — torn ACL’s, car crashes, rogue felines bearing animus toward Hydroflasks — just, don’t ask. But 2022 is a new year, and the Warriors are right back where they belong — in contention for a Cal Pac championship.