For Immediate Release
November 14, 2007

Men's and Women's Soccer Teams Ready for Playoffs

Men play at Foothill, women travel to Santa Rosa.

The women's soccer team will open the Nor-Cal playoffs Saturday afternoon at Santa Rosa Junior College while the men play the same day at Foothill College. The women finished the regular season with a 13-5-3 record while the men were 12-8-3.

It's a huge test for Cañada's women's team as Santa Rosa finished the season with a 14-2-4 record and earn the top-seed in the Nor-Cal playoffs. Elvira Garcia will lead the Colts. She had 15 goals and six assists during the regular season.

The men's team enters the Nor-Cal playoffs as the ninth-seed and will face a Foothill team seeded eighth. Foothill finished the season with a 16-5-0 record. The winner will face top-seeded Santa Rosa, a team that lost just once during the regular season. To advance, the Colts will need to find a way to stop high-scoring Rio Omata, who scored 19 goals and added nine assists for Foothill. Kristian Lyssand led Cañada with 14 goals and six assists.

For more information, contact Robert Hood, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, at hoodr@smccd.edu or 306-3340