REDONDO Beach front — Tommy Copnall experienced no doubts that items would go Redondo’s way when Thursday night’s CIF Southern California Regional showdown with Del Norte went to penalty kicks.
“I just know,” the senior goalkeeper said, “I’m the very best.”
Copnall made that apparent, diving to stop two spot kicks as the best-seeded Sea Hawks (15-5-4), following rallying to forge a 1-1 draw on Daniel Vorndron’s header with 8 minutes to go in regulation, fell guiding in the tiebreaker and delivered a 6-5 triumph to send out them to the Division II title recreation Saturday night in opposition to No. 2 Torrey Pines (21-2-3), a 5- winner above Oxnard Pacifica.
Redondo will host Torrey Pines at 7 p.m.
“I have a expressing: The penalty kick is pleasure or sadness, very little in among,” stated Sea Hawks coach Mark Hodson, whose team’s route to its first CIF Southern Segment championship integrated a place-kicks victory in excess of No. 1 Moorpark in the Division 2 quarterfinals. “Tommy arrived up huge all over again for us with two phenomenal saves.”
Tyler Busse set absent the decisive PK, a rocket to the remaining facet in the seventh round, soon after Copnall dived to his suitable to deny Sayf Mamory.
San Diego Segment Division 1 champion Del Norte (10-6-6), which arrived only 30 minutes ahead of kickoff right after a four-hour bus trip through site visitors. led most of the way, immediately after Ryan Freedman slotted a ball from Anthony Wilson previous Copnall and into the web off the ideal put up in the 20th minute, and ended up forward from the commence of the shootout.
Billy Cherres place the Nighthawks forward with the 1st kick, goalkeeper Arturo Vargas stopped Beau Yantz, and the readers led as a result of 3 of five mandatory rounds. Then Copnall leapt to his suitable to help save Mateen Bhaghani’s check out, Caleb Davis pulled Redondo level, and the two sides place away their fifth and sixth attempts, setting the scene for Copnall’s greatest prevent.
“I just know wherever they are heading,” Copnall mentioned when it was finished. “It’s all intellect games. I just communicate to them, telling them they are going to skip, make them go to the side I’m diving to, and just make the large conserve.”
The Sea Hawks dominated most of the night time — they built amazing benefits in pictures (18-6) and scoring probabilities (19-6), but have been actively playing from behind versus a more quickly facet that excelled defensively powering heart back Justin Li and holding midfielder Jacob Rozenkrants.
Vargas was referred to as on to make large will save on Yantz and Nathan Stock in the 1st 50 percent, but Redondo struggled to hook up immediately after halftime until eventually Hodson switched from his customary 4-3-3 alignment to a 3-5-2, pairing Busse and Vorndron up prime.
It paid off four minutes later, when Jaden Hancock played the ball up the still left flank for Yantz, whose cross Vorndron nodded inside the considerably article.
Both sides could have won throughout the 15-minute additional time period. Copnall stopped Jake Hoffman one particular-on-a person in the 86th moment — he named it retribution for conceding the first target — and the Sea Hawks experienced three fantastic odds, with Vargas saving Hancock’s shot and Yantz hitting the crossbar in the 91st and Yantz, just one-on-one particular from a Ryan Doyle feed, fired wide correct with practically the closing touch.
Hancock, Owen Zarnick, Allan Pacheco and Antonio Paganelli also converted penalty kicks for Redondo, the previous two when a overlook would have finished the Sea Hawks’ period.