Roosevelt girls soccer team beats Etiwanda in penalty-kick shootout

EASTVALE — The crossbar was the all-star Wednesday night. Both teams hit the frame of the goal multiple times — including Etiwanda twice in the shootout — before Roosevelt emerged with a 0-0 (3-2) victory in a defensive CIF Southern Section Division 1 quarterfinal match. “We’ll take it but we need to be more clinical in front of goal,” Roosevelt coach Andrew Tillekooh said. “I think we hit the post or crossbar three times.” Junior defender Aubree Austin scored the eventual match-winner in the shootout, calmly slotting the ball low, left and into the back of the net to set […]

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Feb 19, 2026 - 08:04
Roosevelt girls soccer team beats Etiwanda in penalty-kick shootout
  • Roosevelt goalkeeper Zoryah Davis (00), right, jumps into the arms...
    Roosevelt goalkeeper Zoryah Davis (00), right, jumps into the arms of Roosevelt defender Aubree Austin (20) after her penalty kick defeated Etiwanda to win the win the CIF Southern Section Division 1 girls soccer quarterfinal match in Eastvale on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
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Roosevelt goalkeeper Zoryah Davis (00), right, jumps into the arms of Roosevelt defender Aubree Austin (20) after her penalty kick defeated Etiwanda to win the win the CIF Southern Section Division 1 girls soccer quarterfinal match in Eastvale on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
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EASTVALE — The crossbar was the all-star Wednesday night.

Both teams hit the frame of the goal multiple times — including Etiwanda twice in the shootout — before Roosevelt emerged with a 0-0 (3-2) victory in a defensive CIF Southern Section Division 1 quarterfinal match.

“We’ll take it but we need to be more clinical in front of goal,” Roosevelt coach Andrew Tillekooh said. “I think we hit the post or crossbar three times.”

Junior defender Aubree Austin scored the eventual match-winner in the shootout, calmly slotting the ball low, left and into the back of the net to set off the celebration as Roosevelt (18-4-6 overall) moves on to its second section semifinals in the three seasons.

“I just knew I had to make it, and I’m confident in myself that I wasn’t going to miss it,” Austin said. “It’s literally everything that high school’s about and I feel happy that we’re going to the semifinals.”

Roosevelt is unbeaten over its last nine matches and is now 9-1-0 at home this season. The Mustangs, winners of the 2024 Division 1 title, play at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame on Saturday.

“I’m super proud of what we’ve done so far, though, you know we’re not done yet,” Tillekooh said.

After 80 minutes of regulation time and two 10-minute periods of golden-goal overtime without a goal, Etiwanda (17-2-1) went first in the shootout but senior Alondra Talamantes clanked the Eagles’ opening attempt off the crossbar.

Senior center back Avery Mendez went first for Roosevelt and scored to the right of Etiwanda goalkeeper Abby Ceron for a 1-0 lead.

Roosevelt junior goalkeeper Zoryah Davis dove to her left to stop the next spot kick from Etiwanda’s Mariah Wakumoto, but Ceron returned the effort and made her own diving save to stop the Mustangs’ second try from Delilah Woods.

Etiwanda’s Alannah Gonzales was next to hit the crossbar on the Eagles’ third kick before Roosevelt’s Juliette Gomez doubled the Mustangs lead with a powerful shot again to the right of Ceron.

Ceron stepped up and squeezed her kick past Davis for Etiwanda’s first goal, and turned around and stopped a shot from Roosevelt’s Kamdyn Rembis to keep the Eagles alive.

Etiwanda’s fifth kick taker Zoe Morello scored past Davis to tie the shootout 2-2, and that’s when Austin knew what she had to do.

“I was analyzing (Ceron) and I realized she liked only going to her left so I was like, ‘I have to go that way’ because I knew she’s not going to go there,” Austin said.

Sensing Ceron’s unwillingness to dive to her right, Austin placed her kick firmly inside the post as Etiwanda’s goalkeeper fell to her knees.

“I think I’m the only one who really recognized it,” Austin said. “I got that from my mom. She told me, ‘You have to watch the keeper if you’re ever in PKs.’ I noticed she wasn’t going to her right, so that’s where I went.”

Roosevelt is the last Inland girls soccer team remaining in the Division 1 playoffs.

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