Men’s soccer draw with ECC Compton Center
Ryan Zein (freshman) #11, dribbling the ball up field while holding off Compton College midfield on Tuesday Sept 29 game at Compton College. The Warriors tied the game 2-2. Photo credit: Jackie Romano
El Camino College’s men’s soccer team tied with Compton Center 2-2 on Tuesday, bringing its overall record to 1-5-2, according to cccaasports.org.
EC began the game with a strong two-goal lead, but Compton scored two penalty kicks during the second half which tied the game.
EC coach, John Britton, said the team played a good game, but mistakes put the team in a position to end the game with a tie.
“We can only blame ourselves because we had several one-on-one opportunities and we didn’t take them,” Britton said. “We were two up, had three clear chances to be up by more, didn’t take them and It came back to haunt us.”
Britton went on to say that the team played very well, but the team served as their own enemy.
“We count this game as a loss,” he said. “We were clearly the better team, but we shot ourselves in the foot.”
Assistant coach Darren Dunn said that the team will be working on patience when it comes to their defense for the next game.
El Camino College’s men’s soccer’s next game will be facing Pasadena College at home Friday, Oct.2 at 2 p.m.
![Players from the El Camino College mens soccer team surround and cheer on Melvyn Perez-Cortez, No. 13, after he scored a goal against Orange Coast College in the 48th minute of the match at Murdock Stadium on Tuesday, Nov. 26. “At halftime we had a speech with the coach and he said to ‘come out strong’ and that’s what we did and it benefited us a lot and [the game] went in our favor,” Perez-Cortez said. Rosemary Montalvo/The Union](https://eccunion.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ND5_9869-475x317.jpg)
