On Tuesday night, the San Luis Obispo High School girls soccer team faced off against the Yorba Linda Mustangs in one of the final games of our lady tigers’ season. The game was a whirlwind of steals, jukes and bad calls by the referees.

“The reffing’s the reffing. I’m never one to complain and moan about it. It is what it is. A call goes this way, a call goes that way, it’s the luck of the game. [When] you play enough games, [and] you coach enough games you get some results and sometimes you don’t get a result and that’s just the way it goes,” said principal and head girls soccer coach Leslie O’Connor. Our lady tigers fought with an extraordinary vigor, but were overcome; incurring their first loss of their previously undefeated season at the hooves of the Mustangs, 2-1 in overtime.

“I think that we probably gave them a little too much space in the first half. But we’re really built around attacking throughout the second half. So I think we followed a good game plan to be able to get what they had. I think it’s a game of inches,” said O’Connor.

The team will head on to play in the California state finals next week.