I covered yet another prep soccer game on Wednesday. I was at the Redlands East Valley-Temecula Valley game. It started off as a pretty bad game to watch but it got better. Way better. REV started to lose their composure and Temecula Valley's offense finally started to click. But the game was 0-0 after regulation and 0-0 after the first 20-minute overtime.
Then, it went to golden-goal overtime. The game was all set for PKs when REV scored on a set piece. The goal was not worthy of the game, though. To win that game, there should have been some blistering 18-yard rocket that the keeper would have had no chance of stopping (think Phillip Lahm against Costa Rica). Instead we got some cheap goal on a save the keeper should have made.
Redlands East Valley, incidentally, is where Landon Donovan attended high school. I saw him play a few times with REV. I remember one game where he scored five goals against Indio HS.
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