Women’s Soccer: Vikings’ season ends with overtime playoff loss at East LA

The Long Beach City College women's soccer team's 2012 season came to a disappointing end with a 1-0 overtime loss at East Los Angeles College on Thursday in a Southern California Regional Playoffs play-in round game.

Once again the Vikings' defense did all it could to keep its squad in the game, but unfortunately the offense couldn't deliver.

After a scoreless 90 minutes of regulation, the two squads played a pair of 15-minute overtime periods. It didn't take long for No. 15 seed East Los Angeles to finally breakup the scoreless match when Leslie Rivera broke free in the 95^th minute to score the game-winner.

Sophomore Jeanette DeAnda posted 10 saves in goal for the 18^th seeded Vikings.

It was the third meeting of the season between the conference foes and first win for East Los Angeles (10-7-5) after they played to a 0-0 tie and LBCC edged the Huskies 1-0.

Long Beach closes the season with an 11-6-4 overall record and was third in the South Coast Conference at 7-3-4.

Photo: Sophomore Brooke Denton battles an East Los Angeles defender for possesion on Thursday. (by Chris Ruiz)