OC Wins, Reaches Sixth Consecutive Quarterfinal

Tue, Feb 20th -OC hosted its first playoff game of the season and a first ever match up between Bell Garden in the Second Round of the CIF SS D5 Championship. The Lions made short work of BG with four first half goals. In the second half they added three more to equal the second highest number of goals scored by OC in a playoff game, but the most ever produced in a second round game.

Kelsea Smith was the player of the game without a doubt. Kelsea opened the scoring in the 9th minute with an assist from Kelly Johnson, then assisted Caroline Cislo five minutes later for the second goal in the 14th minute. In the 18th minute Johnson passed to Smith who assisted Cislo again. Smith tallied another goal with an assist from Hannah MacKechnie in the 39th minute. After the break and a Bell Garden's goal Lauren Lundstrom scored a goal (her third score in four games) with an assist from Smith in the 64th minute. Then Kristen Clark scored on an assist from Smith's corner kick in the 78th minute. The final goal came from Sam Nordlund with an assist from Casey DaSilva.

Kelsea set a number of OC playoff records in the effort:

Most Points in a Playoff Game - 6 (2 goals, 4 assists)
[Old Record Caitlyn Mackecnie - 5 (4 g, 1 a)]

Most Assists in a Playoff Game - 4
[Alysha Hoven -3]

Most Assists in a Playoff Season - 11 (with more to play)
[Alysha Hoven - 11]

OC has been eligible for playoffs six times since the school began a girls soccer program and have played in the Quarterfinals all six times. No other CIF SS D5 school has equaled this achievement in that stretch.

OC's All Time record in the playoff is 21-2-3 (w-l-t).