Five-goal second half barrage propels Torrey Pines boys into CIF soccer finals

Post date: Feb 22, 2019 4:52:08 AM

For host Torrey Pines, there was the good and the bad from the first half of Tuesday night’s (Feb. 19) CIF Open Division boys’ soccer semi-final. The good was that the No. 1-seeded home team ran roughshod over Scripps Ranch, the fourth-seeded visitors. The likes Michael Mines, Denzel Zepeda, Ryan Crean, Ted Merrifield, Ish Uno and friends owned the ball and created dangerous offensive chances with regularity.

The bad was that the scoreboard was not counting style points and the only number on the scoreboard was a one, right next to the word Visitor, meaning the goal scored by Scripps Ranch senior Matt Guthrie with 5:10 to go in the half (his 23rd of the year) left the Falcons with just 40 minutes to find the solution to their scoreboard problem. (more)