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Nick Popoff led the fourth-seeded Golden Eagles with two goals while Kevin Eaton contributed a goal and assist. Nick Yeomans added a pair of assists to go with a single goal by Andy Yeomans to lead the winners.

The game was tight early, with both teams skating through a scoreless first period. Good goaltending kept the Golden Eagles off the scoreboard until Eaton scored the jump goal with 5:53 left in the second period. Just over a minute later San Pasqual took a 2-0 lead on Popoff’s first goal of the afternoon.

The 11th-seeded Lancers, who scored a 2-1 upset win against sixth-seeded Poway in the opening round, cut the San Pasqual lead to 2-1 on Tim Carr’s goal with 5:21 to play in regulation. However. Popoff responded with a goal just 11 seconds later to restore the Eagles’ two-goal lead. Andy Yeomans’ insurance goal, assisted by Nick Yeomans, came with 1:17 to play.

Mark Wosk drew the assist on Carlsbad’s lone goal.

Brock Backus - 17

Scott Brand - 56

Stephen Collier - 4

Kevin Eaton – 7

Curtis Fjelstad – 19

Adon Galindo – 13

Matt Kelly – 26

Nick Popoff – 91

Andy Yeomans – 2

Nick Yeomans – 9

Tim Carr – 12

Tim Collier – 8

Kenny Hoyle – 76

Ryan Merhab – 37

Anthony Payne – 56

Ross Pfahler – 11

Sean Seal – 33

Mark Wosk - 31

Chase Ambuter led the second-seeded Panthers with three goals and one assist while teammates Andrew and Jimmy Peattie each chipped in with a goal. Dennis Furlong had two assists for Vista, which built a 4-0 lead in the game.

Ambuter scored twice in a 3-0 first period for the Panthers to complement a goal by Anderw Peattie.

The eighth-seeded Sundevils cut the Panthers lead to 4-1 on the first of Mike Baumker’s two goals with 9:36 to play in the middle period. However, Vista answered within a minute to regain its four-goal lead at 5-1. The Panthers scored again (this time by Jimmy Peattie) with 5:13 to play in the period to hike their lead to 6-1 – and take firm control of the contest.

Baumker netted his second goal of the game with 4:10 elapsed in the final period.

Mt. Carmel defeated ninth-seeded St. Augustine 8-2 in first-round play.

Chase Ambuter – 55

Adam Apperly – 38

John Destunt – 89

Nick Dimento – 5

Dennis Furlong – 9

Jimmy Peattie – 7

Andrew Peattie – 26

Lucas Smith – 45

Brandon Baker – 22

Mike Baumker – 11

Jordan Decker – 5

Talon Koch – 2

Matt Nauman – 9

Stan Phillips – 19

Ryan Wiens – 7

Brian Williaman - 33

(1) Rancho Bernardo Broncos 4, (10) Torrey Pines Falcons 2

Kevin Meisner, assisted by David Drasin, scored the 3-2 go-ahead goal with 7:40 to play in regulation and Jared Goodrich scored an empty net goal with three seconds to go in the game to lift the top-seeded Broncos past the upset-minded Falcons, who twice knotted the contest on the scoreboard before Rancho Bernardo kept its record undefeated at 10-0-2.

Wes Jones, set up by Drasin, gave RB a 1-0 lead with 8:20 to play in first period. Torrey Pines tied game with 51 seconds to play in the period on a goal by Kenny McCubbins, assisted by Colin McCubbins.

The game remained deadlocked at a goal apiece until 51 seconds left in the second period when the Broncos' Mike Majam, taking a breakaway pass from Jordan Goodrich, rifled a shot at Falcons netminder Danny Nutter, who made the first save but gave up a rebound that the quick-to-capitalize Majam put away for a hard-earned 2-1 RB lead.

Majam's goal came shortly after the Broncos had frantically spent killing a penalty.

Kenny McCubbins' second goal of the game early in the third period tied the score at 2-2.

Teammates mobbed Meisner after his go-ahead goal. Torrey Pines managed to pull Nutter with 30 seconds to play for the extra attacker and got two shots into the crease before Jared Goodrich pounced on a loose puck and shot it into the vacant Falcons net from just inside half court. 

Both Drasin and Colin McCubbins finished the game with two assists for their respective teams.

Nutter played an excellent game for Torrey Pines in the loss.

The game marked the second narrow setback by the Falcons to RB this season as

Torrey Pines served notice it could be a team to be seriously reckoned with next season. The Falcons lose both Nutter and on-court leader Mark Chapparone, along with senior field hockey standout Cara Lopresti, but have many young players returning who expect to develop even further by next season.

"It's tough as far as Danny and Mark are concerned but we still have a pretty good crop of players we have to develop. We're going to have to have a couple players step up next year to fill the net with some goals," said coach Mike Lozano, who had just led the Junior Gulls Bantam AA team to the California Amateur Hockey Association state championship title the day before in San Jose.

Kenny McCubbins, who had all four Torrey Pines goals in their 4-1 first-round win against seventh-seeded Fallbrook, had four goals and four assists in the Junior Gulls' 5-0 run to the state title.

Lineups:

Rancho Bernardo Broncos

Ryan Bracamonte – 1

David Drasin – 9

Jared Goodrich – 20

Jordan Goodrich – 8

Wes Jones – 7

Dane Lundolf –

Mike Majam – 55

Kevin Meisner – 74

Eric Rowe - 18

Torrey Pines Falcons

Jeremy Batter – 44

Ryan Burgess – 115

Mark Capparone – 24

Alex Ciccolo – 8

Cara Lopresti -

David Esoldi – 11

Colin McCubbins – 4

Kenny McCubbins – 9

Danny Nutter – 32

Tommy Snyder – 10

Brendan Strause - 45

(3) Monte Vista 7, (5) Escondido 6/OT

Brandon Schaeffer's short-handed goal, assisted by Brett Timmins with 43 seconds gone in sudden-death overtime, allowed the third-seeded Monarchs (9-1-2) to escape with a dramatic comeback victory against the fifth-seeded Cougars.

Escondido (8-4-1) led 5-0 midway through the second period.

"That's what Monte Vista hockey is all about," Monarchs head coach Kyle Trelford told his team after the thrill-seeking win. "A lot of teams would have given up down 5-0 and blamed it on the referees or something else. But they kept working hard. It was a good game. I'm really proud of them."

Trelford had much to be proud of. Monte Vista played without the services of top players A.J. Seeger and Tony Mauro as well as season-long contributors Mike Beckstrom and Matt O'Brien either because of an out-of-town school field trip commitment or illness.

Timmins, a standout ice hockey player, took charge of his team's ferocious come-from-behind surge with four goals and two assists while Schaeffer had three goals and an assist.

The Monarchs began their torrid comeback when Timmins scored with 3:16 to play in the second period to spoil Cougars sophomore goalie Colin Reischl's shutout bid. Timmins added another uncontested goal with 41 seconds to play in the period to cut the Escondido lead to 5-2 at the end of the second period.

Two more unanswered goals -- the first by Schaeffer and the next by Timmins for a hat trick -- whittled the Cougar lead to 5-4. However, Keven Johnson appeared to give Escondido a boost when he scored with just over six minutes to play to give his team some additional breathing room at 6-4.

But the Monarchs were not finished with what they had started.

Timmins scored his fourth goal of the game 43 seconds after Johnson's tally to hand the momentum back to Monte Vista, which tied the game with 35 seconds to play in regulation time on Schaeffer's second goal of the contest, unassisted.

The Cougars appeared to get a reprieve, however, when the Monarchs took a penalty with 25 seconds remaining, with the excess time spilling over into the five-minute sudden-victory overtime period.

Escondido got one rush down court and a shot to the side of the Monte Vista net but Timmins gathered in the rebound along the boards and broke up the right side, with Schaeffer skating up the middle on an odd-man rush. Timmins centered the puck to Schaeffer and he slid it in at short-range distance for the winner.   

After the game, Trelford had the following to say to his team: "Just don't wait till the second period to start playing against Vista."

Nate DeWindt led the Cougars with two goals and one assist while Ryan Engstrom had a goal and two assists and Mat Schreyer scored twice. Johnson added a goal and assist in the loss.

Escondido, which managed a major turnaround from a 2-8-1 non-playoff qualifying campaign the previous season, loses just one senior off this year's team.

"The loss is disappointing but it couldn't have happened against a classier team," said Cougars coach Al Schoffstall. "Maybe next year it will be our turn."