TORRANCE, CA- The Soka University Lady Lions dropped their final match of the 2019 season to the Marymount California University Mariners 2-0 on Friday afternoon at El Camino College.

The two teams remained scoreless until the 52^nd minute of the match when Marymount's Brooke Ybarra carried the ball to the byline and pulled it back to her teammate Ashley Anguiano. Anguiano slotted her shot past Soka's goal keeper Jenna Jenson to give the Mariners the 1-0 lead.

Eight minutes later Ybarra tallied the Mariners insurance goal off of an assist from Kelsey Lombardo, bringing the final score to 2-0 despite multiple chances created by Soka's Roxy Ortiz, Renee Parado, and Cerelia Maskarinec.

"The Soka Woman's Soccer program finished their season with an outstanding performance," said Head Coach Dave McLeish.  "The character and leadership demonstrated by our ladies today after half of the team was either sick or injured was phenomenal, and I couldn't have asked more from them.  Our sophomore midfielder Jenna Jensen bravely stepped into the nets for our two injured goal keepers, and she made four crucial breakaway saves. Overall it was a very good year, and I am very proud of our team. We will miss our graduating seniors Jordan Pritzl and Cerelia Maskarinec, and wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors."
 
The Lady Lions finished out their 2019 campaign with and overall record of 8-9, and 3-7 in California Pacific Conference play.
 





 
NOTES:  This is the fifteenth meeting between the Lions and the Mariners… Soka is now 12-1-2 against Marymount California… The Mariners outshot Soka 19-5… Soka's Jenna Jenson made a career high ten saves on the game.