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San Jose CyberRays 3, San Diego Spirit 1

Spartan Stadium, San Jose, Calif.
June 9, 2002 - 3 p.m. PT Kickoff
Attendance: 7,127. Fair, windy - 78 F.

Scoring:

SJ - Tisha Venturini-Hock 1 (French 2, Sissi 5) 26
SJ - Katia 5 (Unassisted) 31
SJ - Katia (Pretinha 1) 35
SD - Zhang 4 (MacMillan 3, Lindsey 4) 75

Cyberrays
Beene, LaKeysia
French, Michelle
Alagich,Diane
Bryan, Thori
Hendershot, Maren (Borgman, Danielle 17)
Dorn, Carey
Venturini-Hoch,Tisha
Sissi,
Pretinha,
Clark, Kim (Bell, Christina 72)
Katia

 

Spirit
Pagliarulo, Jaime
Sauer, Amy
Fan Yunjie (Rhiannon 36, Boxx, Shannon 83)
Fawcett, Joy (Sherrill Kester, 46)
Tietjen, Margaret
Omagbemi, Florence
Foudy, Julie - Captain
Lindsey, Lori
Zhang Ouying,
Akide, Mercy
MacMillan, Shannon

 

Officials:

Referee: Ricardo Salazar;

Referee's Assistants:

Steven Davidson,

Alex Del Angel Jr.;

4th: Dinesh Singh.

 

Statistical San Jose San Diego
Shots 7 4
Saves 3 6
Corner Kicks 6 8
Fouls 14 18
Offside 1 3

Game Report:

After some end-to-end play early in the match the Spirit gave up three goals in the first 35 minutes of the half. The first coming in the 26th minute as the Spirit failed to clear a corner kick and Tisha Venturini-Hoch made a late run to head in from four yards.
Then Katia took over, scoring withtwo great individual efforts.

 


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