SBVC (15-2-3; 6-1-1) may have played its last game against the Rancho Cucamonga Chaffey Panthers (12-2-4; 4-1-3) and it was a splendid effort by both teams, but the home team would prevail, 1-0.

With the victory SBVC is the Foothill Conference Champion and maintains a 33-0-3 regular season home record since the beginning of the 2012 season.

SBVC will be moving to the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference (PCAC) and Chaffey will be moving onto the South Coast Conference (SCC) effective July 1, 2016, which made today's game even more important, as both programs attempted to secure the final Foothill Conference Championship.

SBVC would open up the scoring in the 22nd minute as sophomore midfielder Julissa Magana (Bloomington H.S.) battled for a pass that looked to nearly out and then brought it back to center. Magana then lobbed a perfect attempt into an open freshman forward Baylee Williams (Beaumont H.S.) who clobbered the shot into the back of the net to give SBVC the early, 1-0 lead.

Both keepers made nine saves a piece and SBVC freshman starting goalkeeper Arianna Rodriguez (La Quinta H.S) collected her seventh clean sheet of the season in the victory. The Panthers controlled the corners with nine, including seven in the second half alone, SBVC only had four corners. SBVC dominated on shots attempted with 23 total, including 13 in the first half, but Chaffey had a solid 18 shot attempts with 14 in the second half.

Sophomore forward Leandra Garlinger (Riverside John Wesley North), Williams and Magana led all shot takers with four total shots on the afternoon.

The NorCal/SoCal Regional Playoff Seeding Meetings will take place on November 17th to determine where SBVC will begin the post season, first round of the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) SoCal Regionals begins on Saturday, November 21st at 2:00 p.m.

Photo by Wade Byars.
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