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On a cold and windy afternoon in Compton, the men’s soccer team dominated its last game of the season.  PCC played El Camino College-Compton Center on Nov. 9 winning by a score of 2-0. 

Despite winning their last game, the men’s soccer team finished 4th in the South Coast conference and 17th in the Southern California region.  The first 14 teams in the Southern California Region enter the playoffs, so the Lancers just missed the playoffs this year.

Scoring was set off in the 15th minute with a cross by Vahagan Manoyan.  He spent the first 15 minutes bringing the ball down the left wing, crossing the ball over and over again.  One of the many crosses he made went around the keeper and found Irving Rosales on the far post.

“I was playing right wing, I was touching the end line,” said Rosales, “and I finally made that run down the line, where I should have been the first 15 minutes, the keeper came out and I chipped it over him.”

The second goal came in the second half, as the Lancers pushed the ball forward again and again.  Kevin Ramirez took a free kick from the 25-yard-line, looping it in to the near post, where Manoyan headed the ball back over the defenders and Brandon Flores finished it off by heading it over the goalkeeper.

“The game was dominated by us in the second half, we had more opportunities,” said Flores.

“When we got there we did what we had to do. We were waiting for the playoff seating, so we had to win that game,” said Coach Edgar Manvelyan.  “We went there to win the game, … we changed our whole lineup, we just kept pressing, kept pressing, kept pressing.   In the second half we put all our sophomores in, a sophomore congratulations, [by that time] we had control of the game fully.”

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