JC soccer season continues for Southwestern College

Southwestern College’s women’s soccer team appeared to get the result it wanted in last Friday’s 1-0 victory at MiraCosta College. Sophia Neri netted the game-winning goal in the second half as Samantha Gudino posted a 12-save shutout.

Both Southwestern and MiraCosta were neck and neck atop the PCAC standings and it appeared the Lady Jaguars had finally managed to open up some space.

But all that vanished in a 3-1 home field loss to Palomar College on Tuesday. The Lady Comets opened up a shocking 3-0 lead before Diamel Patino averted a shutout, assisted by Rebecca Perez. Gudino had eight saves on 11 shots.

Southwestern has three matches remaining in regular season play: Friday at Grossmont, next Tuesday at San Diego Mesa and Nov. 10 against visiting Cuymaca.

Current standings feature the Lady Jags on top with a 9-1-3 record and 0.808 winning percentage, immediately followed by MiraCosta at 8-1-3 with a 0.792 winning percentage. San Diego Miramar is in third place with an 8-2-3 record and 0.731 winning percentage, followed by San Deigo Mesa at 7-1-4 with a 0.750 winning percentage.

Those are the top four teams in the standings.

Palomar sits in fifth place at 5-4-3 with a 0.542 winning percentage, followed by San Diego City at 5-6-0 with a 0.455 winning percentage, Grossmont at 2-9-0 with a 0.182 winning percentage, Imperial Valley at 2-11-0 with a 0.154 winning percentage and Cuyamaca at 0-11-0 with a 0.000 winning percentage.

In terms of standings points, Southwestern holds a three-point edge on MiraCosta, though the Lady Spartans have played one fewer match and thus have three points in hand.

The Southwestern men’s team snapped a two-game losing streak with an 11-0 win over San Diego Mesa on Tuesday but now sit well off the pace from first place. The Jaguars fell, 3-0, at MiraCosta last Friday after absorbing a 2-1 home defeat by Palomar the prior Tuesday.

Through 10 games, MiraCosta tops the PCAC standings with an 8-1-1 record and 25 points, followed by Cuyamaca with a 6-1-3 record and 21 points in second place and Southwestern with a 5-2-3 record and 18 points in third place.

San Diego City (5-2-2) is right behind SWC with 17 points, followed by Palomar (4-2-3) with 15 points, San Diego Miramar (2-7-1) with seven points, Imperial Vaey (2-8-0) with six points and San Diego Mesa (0-9-1) with one point.

Jair Mariscal scored the opening two goals against Mesa, followed by goals from Christian Quezada, Declan Moore, Derek Palencia, Esteban Gonzalez adn Sebastian Mendoza for a 7-0 lead. Mendoza scored again for an 8-0 advantage, followed by goals from Daniel Gutierrez, Daniel Arath and Issai Anguiano.

There is still room for movement in the standings.

The Jaguars play at Cuyamaca on Friday, host San Diego City on Tuesday and Miramar next Friday and finish up with two road games: Nov. 10 at Imperial Valley and Nov. 13 at San Bernardino Valley.

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