Feb. 8, 2010
HUFF SIGNS AT EWU
Warrior sophomore Dashia Huff has signed a National Letter of Intent to continue her soccer career at Eastern Washington University next season. Huff was a two-time All-NWAACC defender and a key member of the women's team that went 21-1-0 this past season and won the NWAACC Championship.
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Dec. 10, 2009
SIX WOMEN NAMED TO EAST ALL-STAR SQUAD
Six women off of the 2009 NWAACC Championship Warrior Soccer team have been named to the East Region All Star squad. The Warrior went 21-1-0 this past year and also won their seventh straight East Region title to go along with the NWAACC title.
The six all stars include Kati Lucas at forward, Tahlio O'Loughlin and Becky Ryerse at midfield, Dashia Huff and Lena Miraglio as defenders, and Jordan Simkins at keeper.
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Dec. 7, 2009
BODNAR NAMED SOCCER COACH OF THE YEAR
WWCC Head Soccer Coach Chad Bodnar has been named the NWAACC Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year. Bodnar led the Warrior women to a 21-1-0 record, a seventh straight East Region Championship, and the programs first NWAACC Championship with a 1-0 OT win against Columbia Basin. Bodnar, also the head coach for the men’s team, led the WWCC men to second place finish in the NWAACC, a fifth East Region title in six years and a 14-4-1 record this season
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Dec. 1, 2009
View a news video from KEPR News on the NWAACC Championship games for both the WWCC Men and Women.
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Nov. 22, 2009
WARRIORS TAKE HOME TITLE
The top-ranked Walla Walla Warriors cruised past third-ranked Chemeketa in Saturday's semifinal 4-1 while second-ranked Columbia Basin Hawks took down fourth-ranked Tacoma 3-2 in Saturday's other semifinal.
Columbia Basin's women looked for a repeat of last year's upset win over Walla Walla in the championships - and for 90 minutes it appeared that the Hawks held a slight offensive edge over the favored Warriors.
Overtime was a different story, however. Walla Walla attacked the Columbia Basin goal hard until the 94th minute when a corner kick was launched in front of a crowded Hawk goal box and Warrior sophomore forward Tahlia O'Loughlin collected it and drove in a five yard shot for the 1-0 sudden death OT winner.
The Warrior's title ended a four-year span in which Walla Walla's women's program has had to settle for a runner-up trophy at the championships.
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Nov. 14, 2009
JONES LEAD WARRIORS TO QUARTERFINAL WIN,
SEMIFINALS NEXT
By ROY ELIA
of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
WALLA WALLA — Tahlia O’Loughlin scored in the eighth minute and fellow forward Justine Jones completed a hat trick with two goals in the final nine minutes of play Saturday afternoon to lead the top-ranked Walla Walla Community College women’s soccer team to a 4-0 victory over Shoreline in an NWAACC quarterfinal match at Warrior Field.
WWCC improved its record to 19-1 and will advance to the conference semifinals next Saturday.
Both semifinal matches and Sunday’s championship and consolation tussles will be played at the StarFire Sports Complex in Seattle.
Shoreline’s season ended with a mark of 8-5-4.
O’Loughlin’s goal, her 10th of the season, came off a Dominique Alston assist at 7:25.
“That was a big goal for us,” WWCC coach Chad Bodnar said. “It was a goal of pure heart. She ran into the keeper and had the wind knocked out of her. Most players would have stayed away from that 50-50 challenge, but she ran through it and scored a great goal.”
The Warriors maintained their one-goal edge until Jones put away her first tally, assisted by Becky Ryerse, at the 36:35 mark of half one.
“She came out and sparked us,” Bodnar said of Jones, a reserve who had six goals in 2009 prior to her Saturday trifecta. “She peeled off the right side, Becky slotted a ball in behind the backs, and Justine tucked it in the left corner.
“We played as well as we’ve played all year in the first half,” said Bodnar, whose team outshot the Dolphins 13-0 in the opening 45 minutes. “We had good movement off the ball. We could have finished more chances, but I was pretty happy.”
Jones gave the Warriors a 3-0 lead by taking advantage of an Amanda Brusic assist at 81:40, then closed out the scoring with an unassisted goal, a chip with the left boot from 25 yards out on the right side, at 83:30.
“She was on fire today,” Bodnar said. “It’s great to see. That’s an attribute of this team — that we have a lot of kids that can finish chances.”
Walla Walla Community College outshot Shoreline 23-1. The Dolphins’ Michael Urbano recorded her team’s lone shot in the match — a try just inside the 18-yard box with 1:46 left that was stopped by Walla Walla keeper Jordan Simkins.
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Nov. 7, 2009
WARRIORS CLINCH SEVENTH STRAIGHT EAST TITLE
On a day when the Walla Walla Community College women’s soccer program recognized a dozen sophomores in pre-match ceremonies, one of the honorees and a pair of freshmen stepped up in the Warriors’ regular-season finale.
Forward Tahlia O’Loughlin tallied one goal and one assist while midfielder Becky Ryerse and forward Margo Hickman scored two goals apiece as top-ranked WWCC cruised to a 7-0 victory over Wenatchee Valley in an NWAACC East Division match at Warrior Field.
Walla Walla concluded the regular season 15-0 in league, 18-1 overall, and will host an NWAACC quarterfinal match next Saturday.
“We started all of our sophomores to thank them for their two years here,” WWCC coach Chad Bodnar said. “Once we scored the first one, there was never any question (about the outcome).” O’Loughlin was honored along with fellow sophomores Katie Lucas, Analisa Androlowicz, Dashia Huff, Robbie Jenks, Amanda Brusic, Anna Pingree, Kaitlyn Rosane, Kylee Poznanski, Nicole Perry, Emma Hawn, and Teresa Lopez.
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Oct. 10, 2009
WARRIORS WIN AGAIN
Walla Walla's women's team had an easy time against Tacoma as Tahlia O'Laughlin and Kati Lucas scored two goals each in powering the Warriors to a 5-1 victory over the Titans. They each contributed one assist as well in helping the Warriors improve to 10-1-0 on the season. Emma Hawn accounted for WWCC's fifth goal. Jaymie Balcom and Teresa Lopez were credited with an assist each.
The Warrior women travel to Spokane on Wednesday the 14th where they will put their Eastern Region-leading 7-0-0 record and 10-1-0 overall record on the line against the Sasquatch.
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Oct. 7, 2009
WARRIORS CLAIM SOLE POSSESION OF 1ST
The Women's Soccer team claimed sole possesion of 1st place in the East Region on Wednesday with a 1-0 defeat of Columbia Basin on Warrior Field. Kati Lucas scored the lone goal of the contest in the 25th minute and Jordan Simkins was tough in goal as she recorded the shutout. The Warriors remain undefeated in the region with a 6-0-0 record and are now 9-1-0 overall.
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Oct. 4, 2009
WARRIORS GET BEST OF CLACKAMAS
The Warrior women got the best of Clackamas 5-1 on Sunday and now stand 8-1-0 on the year. Kati Lucas chalked up a hat trick and Margo Hickman and Dominique Alston each scored once. Lucas also had two assists in the match and Tahlia O'Laughlin collected one assist.
Next for the Warriors is an Eastern Region match against rival Columbia Basin on the WWCC pitch. That comes on Wednesday, with the women's match scheduled for 2 p.m.
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Sept. 26, 2009
WARRIORS HAMMER HIGHLINE
The Walla Walla Community College women’s soccer squad put on a shooting clinic in an 8-0 romp against the overmatched Highline Falcons here Saturday afternoon at Bodnar Field. Using superior size, quickness and ball-handling, the Warriors kept the ball in the offensive end for most of the match. Walla Walla finished with 50 shots at the net — 29 in the first half. The Falcons responded with one shot late, their only attempt of the match. Backy Ryerse scored two goals while Kati Lucas, Jaymie Balcom, Amanda Brusic, Nicole Perry, Margo Hickman, and Justine Jones each added one.
“Games like these are pretty hard to play in sometimes,” Warrior coach Chad Bodnar said. “They sat a bunch of numbers inside the 18-yard box on us and didn’t want to come out and play. It was pretty much just us taking aim and finishing that first one or two goals, then we were pretty comfortable after that.
“I thought the girls did better in terms of finishing today,” he said. “We’ve been talking about the fact that we need to score and finish our chances so when we get down the road and we’re only getting six or eight or 10 shots (per game) and we need to finish we will.”
The Warriors improve to 5-1 on the season.
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Sept. 19, 2009
WARRIORS BEAT BELLEVUE
Forwards Margo Hickman and Katie Lucas scored two goals apiece, and fellow front-line mates Dominique Alston and Justine Jones added a tally each as WWCC rolled to a 6-0 victory over Bellevue at Warrior Field. Hickman got WWCC off to a good start with 6:49 gone in the first half. She used an assist off the boot of Teresa Lopez to give the Warriors a 1-0 edge.
Hickman set up Lucas for Walla Walla’s second goal with a minute left before halftime. The Warriors took the 2-0 advantage to intermission. Just two minutes into the second half, Hickman gave WWCC a 3-0 lead by making the most of a pass from Talia O’Loughlin, then delivered an assist to Lucas at 53:51 to balloon the margin to four.
An individual effort by Alston netted the Warriors’ fifth goal. She collected a pass in the midfield area, left Bellevue defenders in her wake, and knocked a goal-box shot past Bulldogs’ backup goalie Janelle Gobbato with 10:59 remaining. Jones contributed her marker just 23 seconds later to end the scoring.
“We killed the game off,” WWCC coach Chad Bodnar said. “The girls did well with that in the second half. We’re finishing in front of the goal. The girls have gotten better with their composure. It was good for us because we got a lot of looks.”
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Sept. 12, 2009
WARRIORS CRUSH OLYMPIC, BODNAR WINS 100TH
With a 7-0 whipping of Oympic College on Saturday, Chad Bodnar won his 100th match as the head coach of the Warrior women's soccer team. Bodnar now has a career record of 100-6-3 leading the women. His overall record for both the men and women stands at 137-13-8.
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Sept. 6, 2009
WOMEN FALL TO NORTHWEST
Visiting Northwest University managed just three shots and one goal Saturday afternoon during a women’s collegiate soccer match with Walla Walla Community College at Warrior Field. But the first-half marker proved the difference as the Eagles held on for a 1-0 triumph over the Warriors. Walla Walla’s best scoring opportunity came just minutes before Northwest tallied the match’s only goal.
Freshman forward Margo Hickman got off three point-blank shots inside the Eagles’ goal box. Her first try was stopped by Northwest goalkeeper Jessica Kane, the second was cleared off the line by an Eagles’ defender, and the last sailed over the cross bar.
“If you don’t finish, you’re not going to win games,” Coach Chad Bodnar said. “It was one of those days. We lost our composure toward the end of the game,” said Bodnar, whose team was called for 19 fouls compared to only eight for Northwest. “We’ve got a long week of training ahead.”Walla Walla plays its first match of the season against an NWAACC opponent on Saturday when it travels to Olympic.
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Sept. 2, 2009
WARRIORS START SEASON WITH SHUTOUT
The Warrior Women's soccer team began the 2009 season with a 3-0 blanking of Eastern Oregon University. Justine Jones, Anna Pingree, and Amanda Brusic all scored for Walla Walla and Kati Lucas assisted on Brusic's goal. Analisa Androlowicz and Jordan Simkins both recorded the shutout in goal for WWCC.
They will play their next match agianst Northwest University on Saturday, September 5th at 1:00pm.
