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Sacred Heart Prep advances into CCS soccer title match
The SHP Boys Soccer team defeated MA 4-0 in the CCS Open Division semifinal. The Gators advance to the Open Division Championship on Friday night against Bellarmine.
Liam Johnson scored a goal and recorded an assist and the Sacred Heart Prep boys soccer team downed visiting Menlo-Atherton 4-0 in the semifinals of the Central Coast Section Open Division tournament Tuesday.
Kyle Nilsson, Alex Moretti and Alexi Stavropoulos also scored for the fourth-seeded Gators (18-0-2), who earned a spot in the championship match on Friday at Santa Clara's Buck Shaw Stadium against No. 3 Bellarmine, a 2-1 victor over Watsonville.
"We've never been this far as a program," Johnson said. "We just want to make it as far as we can go."
SHP made it this far because of an air-tight defense in front of hard-working goalie Hank Twichell, who had the sun in his eyes during the second half.
"It's difficult but you tell yourself not to let the sun throw you off," Twichell said. "It helped that we have a solid defense. Our back three are the best in our league and probably in the section."
Sacred Heart Prep owns a goal differential of 107-10 on the season, likely one of the largest, if not the largest, margins in the section. Bellarmine (17-3-2) differential is 58-17.
No. 8 Menlo-Atherton (10-6-5) played a solid first half on the heels of its upset victory over Sacred Heart Cathedral last week and kept pressure on the Gators.
Johnson gave SHP the early lead and then helped break the game open, assisting the goal by Nilsson ahead of Moretti's key goal. Ethan Vegthe recorded his second assist of the day on the play.
"I'm confident in all the players around me that when they get the ball they can do something with it," Johnson said. "M-A came out hard in the first half and then we worked out how to attack them."
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Sacred Heart Schools Atherton
Founded by the Society of the Sacred Heart, SHS is a Catholic, independent, co-ed day school for students in preschool through grade 12
