TC women's soccer upsets Santa Rosa

SANTA ROSA – The Taft College women's soccer team has done it again.

Just like last year the Cougars pulled off a major upset in the first round of the northern California playoffs.

This time it was the No. 14 Cougars knocking off No. 3 Santa Rosa JC on the Bear Cats home field last Saturday afternoon.

Freshman midfielder Arielle Stoyanow got the only goal of the match in the first of two overtime periods – driving home a rebound shot when sophomore forward Cristina Salazar's shot hit the post and came off hard.

Cougar goalkeeper Hannah Tovar had six saves to preserve the shutout.

The Cougars now move to the second round, taking on No. 11 Cosumnes River College Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Sacramento.  CRC pulled off an upset too, beating No. 6 Folsom Lake 1-0.

Last year the Cougars went into the playoffs seeded No. 10 and defeated No. 7 and then No. 2 before falling to No. 1 in the NorCal finals.  A win there would have sent them into the state championships.