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Orange Lutheran girls soccer comes up short against Torrey Pines in battle for regional title

March 9, 2025

ORANGE — The Orange Lutheran girls soccer team was one win away from collecting the program’s first CIF regional championship.

After posting a pair of shutouts in the first two Southern California Regional playoff games, the Lancers were thriving.

But Orange Lutheran gave up a first-half goal to Torrey Pines and was unable to find the back of the net late in the game. The Lancers lost 1-0 in the Division II regional final Saturday at Orange Lutheran High.

Orange Lutheran Charlotte Kamansky (11) and Torrey Pines battle for the ball during the CIF Southern California Regional Division II championship girls soccer game, March 8, 2025, at Orange Lutheran High.
(Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)

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The visiting Falcons (17-5), from the CIF San Diego Section, leaned on goalkeeper Lolo Johnson in the final minutes.

The second-seeded Lancers (13-6-1) had a goal from a set piece disallowed in the 70th minute.

The Lancers’ Joey Birkbeck took a free kick from the right flank and the ball found Ariana Markey, who headed it past Johnson. The goal appeared to tie the game, but only momentarily as the head referee ruled an offside that negated the goal.

“There’s two defining moments where I felt like we were onsides,” Lancers coach Luis Segovia said. “We heard the sideline ref say, ‘hey, she’s on, she’s on’ and the center ref called the offside, not the sideline ref, right. So that was rough.”

Orange Lutheran kept attacking and forced back-to-back corners in the 73rd minute but was unable to get a shot past Johnson, who punched the ball away after the first corner and saved a volley attempt right after.

Torrey Pines coach Martyn Hansford, who coached the boys team at Newport Harbor in the early 2000s, was in awe of his team’s gritty performance late in the match.

“It’s staying strong, stepping up, headers off the goal line,” Hansford said. “Our keeper had an amazing game and sometimes it’s just written in the stars for you, you know.”

In the game’s final minutes, the Lancers’ Charlotte Kamansky’s hit the crossbar with a shot and then Johnson stopped Kenadi Hammontree’s close-range shot.

Ashley O’Regan scored the only goal of the game in the 19th minute on a cross from Jaslyn Cumberland.

Segovia felt his team responded well in the second half.

“We rebounded in the second half,” he said. “I felt like they were in the 3-5-2, and we were in a 4-4-2 Diamond, so it took us a while to adjust, but once we adjusted, we were just fine.”

“I think they had one shot on goal the entire game, they didn’t have any corners, nothing. They just had one shot,” Segovia added.

Segovia, in his first year at the helm for the Lancers, is anticipating great things in the future for his program.

“There’s a lot to be proud of. We took over a group that lost every game of the Trinity League last year,” Segovia said. “They didn’t make CIF (last year), and now we’re in the state final with two seniors and one junior on the field. The rest were freshmen and sophomores.”

“I’m super proud of them,” he added. “They can hold their heads high, you know. We set the standard for next year.”

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