Sports DIGEST : Gunn Shoots Menace a Southland AYSO Title

Seanna Gunn scored her second goal of the game eight minutes into overtime Saturday in Upland, leading the Sherman Oaks Red Menace to a 3-2 victory over Just Ducky, a team from Buena Park. The win gave Red Menace the Southern California American Youth Soccer Organization championship for 10- and 11-year-old girls.

Gunn, the daughter of coach Stu Gunn, scored the winning goal from about eight yards out after a pass from Jenny Johnson. Valerie Pearce also assisted on the goal that came one minute before the end of the first sudden-death overtime.

Johnson scored the Red Menace’s first goal five minutes into the third quarter to tie the game at 1-1. Gunn then scored five minutes into the fourth quarter before the Buena Park team knotted the match with two minutes left in regulation.

The Red Menace, which finished the season at 20-0-1, is the first Sherman Oaks team to win a Southern California AYSO title.

Encino Boys Win AYSO Title

An AYSO soccer team based at Balboa Park in Encino defeated a team from Arcadia on Sunday to capture the Southern California championship for boys aged 10 to 11.

The score was tied at 2-2 at the end of regulation play on a field in Upland after Scott Brown and Bobby DaCorsi scored for the Encino team.

After two scoreless overtimes, Encino outscored Arcadia, 4-3, in a shootout. Brown, Andy Shawn, Scott Stelzer and goalie Tim Lesser each scored in the shootout.