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Women's Soccer loses to Santa Barbara City. Overshadowed by its neighbors in Moorpark and Ventura, the Santa Barbara City College women's soccer team has never won a Western State Conference title. Yet this year's Vaqueros,
ranked No. 6 in the nation by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, certainly seem to be the team to beat in the WSC North. Santa Barbara stamped its intentions loud and clear by
opening conference play with an emphatic 3-0 win over defending champion and host Moorpark. "We were just overshadowed, technically and physically," said Moorpark coach Eric Privat. "It
was one of those days when whatever we did didn't work." The Lady Raiders (8-2-1) captured the WSC North for the first time in 12 years last year but Santa Barbara (6-0-4) defeated the Lady
Raiders, 3-0, in the first round of the Southern California regional playoffs. The first meeting of 2008 looked a lot more like the latter than the former. It took the Vaqueros 136 minutes to score
against Moorpark last year. This year, with nine starters returning, it took barely 120 seconds as Moorpark High product Laura Spivack opened the scoring before the teams had broken a sweat. Kila
MacNaughton scrambled home the second goal just before halftime and, as the host Raiders dominated large stretches of the second half, Chelsea Nielsen hammered home the third with a 30-yard free kick.
"They're the same powerful attacking team," said Privat. "When you're down 1-0 in the first minute, you do the best you can. "We were absolutely overmatched technically," Privat
told his team after the final whistle.
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