Socc-her, Socc-him

This season both the men's and women's soccer teams are off to great starts. Both have played tough competition, some of who are the best teams in the state and the Falcons are among the list.

If they aren't, then they should be on everyone's list as teams to watch.

Tommorow, both teams will travel to cross-town rival Long Beach City College in which will definitley be good games.

The women, who are ranked no. 6 in the state, are 12-1-0 overall and 4-0-0 in conference play and currently on a seven game winning streak.

The Falcons have made drastic improvements from their 2004 season going from 2-7- 3 to 19-3-2 last year to its current record, the team has constantly been on the rise to greatness.

So far, its only loss came from Yuba College , who are ranked no. 4 in the country.

Leading scorer Monica Cedillo has scored nine goals in total games this year.

Another player to wach is Nancy Gutierrez .

During the summer Gutierrez was a starter on the Mexican National Team and played in Russia in the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup.

The Mexican team finished in Group C, but lost to Brazil

Though she isn't playing as strong of a role as she did last season scoring-wise for the Falcons, she still remains a contributer with a total 5 goals and 3 assissts so far this season.

Though I have yet to attend a women's game (shame on me, I know!) I soon plan to behold the greatness that is the Cerritos women's soccer team. I assume that the women's games are well attended, because of the sport's polularity of soccer, but also, unlike Cerritos' other futbol team, the soccer teams litterally kick balls!!

When I attended the Mt.SAC game, there were about 40 people there. Some were in the stands, others were standing up behind the gate. There were even some accross the field in the parking lot



Meanwhile, the soccer team of the male species was on a 10 game winning streak until a loss against Mt. Sac put its record at 7-3-3 overall and 1-1-2 in league play.

But the men may be without forward Joshua Meyer , who was injured in the game against Mt. SAC. In the games he's played so far, Meyer has scored a combined 22 points, 6 asissts and 8 goals.

But Meyer himself is not the team. Other players have contributed and picked up the slack. Some of those include Jose Diaz, Andy Rico, and Bryan Alvarez.

Rico had his first hat trick in a 5-1 win against L.A. Harbor on Wednesday.

Cedillo, of the women's team, accomplised the same feat against an even weaker women's Harbor team. Cerritos won 4-0.

Though the feat was accomplised against lowly L.A. Harbor, who frankly, sucks, a hat-trick is still a hat-trick no matter who it's scored against.

The women, in its 12 year history, have yet to defeat the Vikings. Last year they were in a 1-1 tie, until the Vikings scored three straight goals.


While the teams have outstanding records now, will they repeat the early playoff exits of last year?

Both teams are capable of reaching regional championships and maybe even state. They are full of potential and promise and it would suck to see them out of the playoffs so soon.

With over half of their respective regular seasons almost done, crunch time is coming. Both teams have a strong chance at winning the confrence. The South Coast Confrence dosen't have as much competition, with the exception of Mt. SAC , so these next games should be (they'd better be!!) easy wins.