The Skyline View would like to apologize for an error in the print edition. The headline should have read “Skyline Kicks Taft in the balls.” Not “Skyline Kicks Shasta in the balls.”

The crowd’s cheering “Skyline!” Stomping their feet on the bleachers. Foghorns blowing. That was the atmosphere as the Lady Trojans Soccer team beat Taft: 5-0.Taft College goalie Olga Enriquez’s leg was injured when she was attempting to block a goal. Enriquez was trying to block the ball, but dropped it, when Roxana Cornejo ran up and lifted her leg, trying to kick the ball in for the goal. The two collided and fell to the ground, with Enriquez falling under Cornejo. She was helped off of the soccer field by the Skyline sports medicine team, and was too injured to play the rest of the game.

There were eight returning players on the team this year, and fifteen new players. Seven games into the year, the team has grown together and created a strong bond. The team is looking good with a record of 5 wins, one loss, and one tie. Skyline started off strongly by scoring the first goal in the first three minutes. By halftime they were up with a score of two to zero, however Lady Trojans’ Head Coach Kevin Corsiglia encouraged the girls to help each other and keep communicating in order to keep spirits high.

On the field they took his advice. “Put this in Skyline,” shouted Sophomore Selena Rodriguez when there was an open opportunity.

Also encouraging them was the crowd, who were shouting, stomping, and blowing loud fog horns to encourage the girls, and celebrate with every goal. Coach Corsiglia says that he is excited for the season and focuses and strides for teamwork from the players. “We don’t have individual players, we have team players,” said Coach Corsiglia. His goal for the team is to see them work on setting each other up, getting the ball distributed, and continuing to keep up the team’s high work ethic. The biggest challenge that he foresees for them is playing at a higher level. “These girls are good enough, they have the talent and the motivation, it just depends on how hard they work,” says Corsiglia.