Dumpster fire rages on in women’s soccer

By Nick Pellegrino
Updated: October 8, 2024

Imperial Valley College midfielder Sandra Ramirez / IVC courtesy photo

2024 COMMUNITY COLLEGE WOMEN’S SOCCER

ECS staff report

IMPERIAL – In the Battle of the Bad, something neded to gie when winless women’s soccer teams from Cuyamaca and Imperial Valley colleges met in Tuesday’s (Oct. 8) tilt to determine which side would gain its initial victory of the season.

Depsite snide remarks in social media predicting a draw, the final result was huighly improbable.

Imperial Valley, entering the contest winless in 11 games this season, produced its highest goal total in more than decade, stopping the Coyotes, 15-0.

While the Arabs celebrated its first brief moment of success in 2024, Cuyanaca remained oncourse to become the poorest team in state history.

Since women’s athletics became state-sanctioned in 1977-78 (CIF high school sports officially began in 1973-74). the Coyotes did more than just all 10 games this season.

The Coyotes have gone goaless n all 10 outings, getting out-scored 87-0. The largest setback was 10-0 to MiraCosta in the team’s second game, so with Imperial Valley running up 15 goals should set social media blazing.

Cuyamaca is aprocaching a morose mark set by Southwestern College in women’s basketball last season, when the Jaguars fell to Palomar, 120-0.

Talk about regretable situations.

Many schools have gone through rough times, although not to this extreme.

In the early 1990s, San Diego City College dropped 33 staright football games before dropping the program. It’s final win was to Grossmont — the Griffins heard about that one for years.

From 1988-79, San Diego Mesa men’s basketbal went a composte 3-47, but two of those victories were again the a club team from the old San Diego Naval Training Center. Thus, the Olympians went 1-47 against rival community colleges.

There have been other disastrous stretches by other San Diego County schools, but Cuyamaca may have topped them all.

This season will the Coyotes’ fourth attempt to establish a woen’s basketball team. Meawhile, the men’s basketball team hasn’t posted a winning record in 14 years — and counting?

Stay tuned.

Arabs scoring

Scoringfor the Arabs included a “double-hat trick” (6 goals from freshman forwrad Charlie Pinon (Calexico HS), a regular, 3-goal hat trick from forward forward Isabella Romo (Ec-Southwest), a pair of ,arkers from midfielder Sandra Ramirez (Calexico HS), single goals from four others. BOXSCORE