Soccer: TeWinkle runs through Kaiser, 6-0

Richard Dunn

COSTA MESA - Once the ball started rolling Thursday, it was all

TeWinkle Trojans in a fifth- and sixth-grade division boys pool-play

soccer game in the Daily Pilot Cup at Costa Mesa High.

Diego Quinonez and Jose Luna each scored two goals for the TeWinkle

‘A’ team in the first half as Coach Soheil Tasbihchi’s squad earned a 6-0

victory over Kaiser ‘B’.

“We should have won (Wednesday) night, too,” Tasbihchi said. “But we

tied Harbor View, 3-3, after we were ahead, 3-1.”

TeWinkle, which attempted 30 shots on goal (15 in each 25-minute

half), broke through Kaiser’s defense quickly with a goal in the third

minute by Chris Quinlan, who received an excellent cross from Ivan

Gonzalez.

The final score could have been more lopsided, but Kaiser goalie John

Ryder recorded seven saves in the first half and TeWinkle missed several

scoring opportunities in the second half.

“I thought we had a lot of good shots in the second half, but we just

missed them,” Tasbihchi said. “There were five goals we missed.”

Quinonez scored in the 13th minute for TeWinkle after getting a pass

from Gonzalez and working around the goalie, who came out to stop the

penetration. Quinonez, however, fired into an open net.

Luna scored on a breakaway in the 16th minute, then, after a Quinonez

goal was nullified because of offsides, Quinonez gave TeWinkle a 4-0 edge

in the 23rd minute, once again scoring an easy tap-in goal with an empty

net.

Luna scored in the 24th minute to provide TeWinkle with a commanding

5-0 halftime lead.

“We did much better in the second half defensively and offensively,”

said Kaiser Coach Joel Walker, whose team allowed only one second-half

goal and attempted its only two shots. “That’s a very big team we

played.”

After Ryder made his stops in goal for Kaiser in the first half, he

asked to play fullback and Walker obliged, then inserted Chris Mendez

(two saves) in goal in the second half.

Eddie Garcia led Kaiser in the field, while sweeper Juan Guadarrama

was TeWinkle’s main defender in front of goalies Joel Padilla (first

half) and Danny DelaSanchez.

The game started 30 minutes late because of no referees. Kaiser

assistant coach Will Guzman served as a replacement referee.