The Oxnard College Condors woman’s soccer team dropped a tough season opener at home 4-2 against Citrus College Thursday afternoon.

Oxnard played a physical ninety minutes against Citrus, but came up short. Early in the first half, Citrus was able to jump out to a 2-0 lead with goals from forwards Megan Pearce and Tiffany Schneider.

Oxnard would respond with a goal from midfielder/forward Priscilla Villa after some back and forth offense from both teams.

In the second half, Citrus’ momentum continued, as their power offense produced two more goals. A late push by Oxnard occurred when forward/midfielder June Guillen added a tremendous goal.

However, the Oxnard’s comeback was stopped abruptly by a tenacious Citrus defense.
Oxnard head coach Dario Pot believed his team played well, despite the disappointing loss.

“We created chances,” Pot said. “We moved the ball around.”

Oxnard was able to move the ball all over the field, but could not seem to find the net. A few opportunities where it seemed a scoring opportunity was in sight, the Condors could not pull the trigger.

Although Oxnard was competitive throughout the game, they were still not a hundred percent ready, due to some injuries to a couple defenders.

“We were missing a couple defenders today [who] we were really counting on,” Pot said.

Despite the loss, Oxnard has a chance to bounce back from this when it hosts their annual tournament Aug. 29-30.