Lane Paves Way for Upland Win

Color Upland’s victory green, the same hue with which Lauren Lane’s hair was tinted in a nod to her school’s primary color.

Lane scored the deciding goal in the 20th minute of a 2-1 victory over North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake that gave the Highlanders (27-0-4) their first Southern Section championship in the Division I final Saturday at Downey Warren.

“I felt like this was one of my better games,” said Lane, a senior midfielder. “We’re very happy. This is the destination we talked about at the beginning of the season, and we got here.”

Lane’s goal, her third of the season, gave Upland a 2-0 lead at intermission.

The unseeded Wolverines (16-3-5) rallied in the final 40 minutes as senior midfielder Caryn Rosoff scored her 10th goal of the season in the 47th minute. After that, senior midfielder Ali Riley had one goal called back by a foul in the 68th minute and she was tripped in the penalty area minutes later but no foul was called.

Rancho Santa Margarita Tesoro 0, Santa Barbara San Marcos 0 -- Tesoro sophomore Sloane Pagal made six saves in place of injured starter Emily Hart and San Erin Morey of San Marcos had seven saves in the Division II final at Warren.

Hart sat out after suffering a concussion in a semifinal victory over Ventura Buena.

Top-seeded Tesoro (21-5-5), which also won in 2004, had 11 shots on goal, while unseeded San Marcos (20-4-4), making its first finals appearance, had six.

-- Lauren Peterson

Lakewood Mayfair 0, Orange Lutheran 0 -- Goalkeeper Randi Derringer of second-seeded Orange Lutheran (22-2-5) made 17 saves and goalie Danielle deSeriere of fourth-seeded Mayfair (31-1-1) had 16 as each team won its second division title in the Division III final at Warren.

-- Chuck Schilken

Palos Verdes Chadwick 2, Monrovia 0 -- Junior forward Christen Press scored in the 73rd and 77th minutes and sophomore goalkeeper Sammy Hale recorded her 16th shutout of the season, and fifth in five playoff games, as the top-seeded Dolphins (22-2-2) won their second consecutive title in the Division IV championship game at Downey. Second-seeded Monrovia finished 19-5-2.

-- Steven Herbert