Immaculata-La Salle girls’ soccer continues impressive regional playoff run
The Immaculata-La Salle girls’ soccer team doesn’t mind working overtime away from home.
The Royal Lions are thriving when the pressure is at its highest lately and making school history in the process.
On Monday afternoon, La Salle hit the road for the second consecutive time in this year’s regional playoffs.
The Royal Lions dueled a higher-seeded opponent into double overtime for the second consecutive game.
And for the second consecutive week, junior forward Camila Andreu scored the decisive goal in that extra period to keep La Salle’s historic season going following a 3-2 win over host Pine Crest in a Region 4-3A semifinal in Fort Lauderdale.
The Royal Lions (10-7-1), the No. 6 seed in the region, took down No. 3 seed MAST Academy 4-3 in double overtime last week on an Andreu game-winner. This week, Andreu’s goal took down the No. 2-seeded Panthers (13-4-1) to help La Salle advance to the regional finals for the first time in program history.
Next, the Royal Lions will try to complete the sweep and advance to state when they travel again to Fort Lauderdale to face unbeaten and top-seeded Cardinal Gibbons (19-0-2) on Friday at 6.
Powering Andreu’s hat trick were Cristina Echeverri, who assisted on two of the goals and Sofia Cruces, who provided the other.
MORE RESULTS
Region 4-3A semifinal - Cardinal Gibbons 1, NSU University School 0: Freshman Macy Hall scored the lone goal off an assist from Caroline Findley to lift the host Chiefs to the win at home. Gibbons is one win away from a second consecutive trip to the state final four. Kennedy McCausland recorded her 12th shutout of the season.
Region 4-2A semifinal - Palmer Trinity 5, Carrollton 1: Scarlett Baur scored a hat trick with three goals and one assist to help the Falcons (16-2-1) win at home. Gabriella Feetham had one goal and one assist and Brooklyn Schiffrin had a goal. Carolina Egea Guimaraes added an assist.
The Falcons took a 3-0 lead into halftime and cruised into the regional finals for the second consecutive season as they aim for their first trip to the state final four since 2017.
Region 3-3A semifinal - North Broward Prep 3, Naples Aubrey Rogers 0: Jayda Palumbo scored two goals and Ella Munoz tallied the other as the Eagles (18-1-3) advanced to the regional finals for the first time since 2022 when they last made it to the state final four.
Lila Brown assisted on all three goals for North Broward, which will travel to Boynton Beach on Friday to face top-seeded Somerset Canyons at 7. Zoie Brown had 11 saves and recorded her 11th shutout of the season.
Region 4-1A semifinal - South Florida HEAT 8, Highlands Christian 0: HEAT (13-2-3) advanced to the regional finals for the fifth consecutive season, and will aim for back-to-back state final four appearances when it travels to West Palm Beach to face Berean Christian on Friday at 1.
