Boys Soccer Comes Up with BIG Win! Girls Season Ends Strong.

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The boys soccer team is ripping up the field in the CIF Playoffs.


Here is from the IVPRESS:

Top-seeded Vikings dominate Tri-City Christian, 7-0
By MARIO RENTERÍA, Sports Editor


HOLTVILLE — The Holtville High boys’ soccer team is in an unfamiliar spot — the top team to beat — and it is loving it.
The Vikings are at the top in the CIF-San Diego Section Division-IV tournament and proved it with a 7-0 thumping over Tri-City Christian High in the first round of the playoffs here Wednesday.

The normally underdog Vikings aren’t use to the position they’re in.

“We’re used to traveling and being the underdogs,” Vikings head coach Juan Arroyo said. “It feels different.”

Holtville is loving it mainly because the team gets to play at home. On Wednesday, the game brought out a large home crowd.

“It’s an advantage for us especially when we get these large crowds,” Arroyo said.

In Wednesday’s game, the Vikings faced a limited squad that offered very little resistance.

Three goals by the team’s leading scorer forward Isaac Burgos, three from defender Jose Luzania and one from midfielder Eric Sierra was all the Vikings needed to seal the game.

Senior Luzania, normally the team’s sweeper, played at forward for the game.

“It feels great. It’s just a feeling … it’s unexplainable,” Luzania said of scoring three goals in the game.

Holtville improves to 18-2 overall and finished second in the Imperial Valley League (8-2).

The Vikings advance to the quarterfinals where they will face a familiar opponent — Vincent Memorial High.

The Scots, which finished 8-0 to clinch the Citrus East League title — beat High Tech High, 3-1, in Calexico on Wednesday to improve to 14-1-1.

The Vikings will host the No. 8 Scots at a tentative time of 5 p.m. Saturday in Holtville.

With the game being in Holtville the Vikings will again look for support from their home crowd.

“It’s very important. We have home-field advantage and it motivates us when we have our family and friends there,” Luzania said. “It gets us pumped up for the game."


In Girls' Varsity Soccer, our girls finished the season with a record of 7-8 overall and 5-5 in league.

Thanks for an exciting season go out to both our boys and girls teams!


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