Riana Kitchen Scored a Hat Trick in City's 7-0 Win

In the final PCAC home game of the season, the Knights put on a strong performance as they dominated in a 7-0 victory over Miramar with Riana Kitchen recording a hat trick and goalkeeper Chloe Sevilla scoring her first goal. City improved to 8-3-2 overall and 7-3-2 in the PCAC.

The Knights are currently in third place in the conference with two more games at Grossmont on Nov. 8 and at Imperial Valley on Nov. 12. They will need good results in those final two matches in order to keep their playoff hopes alive. 

The goal scoring began early on Friday when the Knights were awarded a penalty kick in the fourth minute after a Miramar foul inside the box. As soon as the call was made, the Knights encouraged Sevilla to make her way across the field and take the penalty kick, which she did and promptly hit the back of the net to give City a quick 1-0 lead. 

Three minutes later, Fatima Valle scored her fifth goal of the season off a pass from Kiki Josephson.

The game remained 2-0 for a good portion of the first half, but in the 33rd minute, Kitchen put in the first of her three goals. She dribbled through three Miramar defenders and then beat the keeper from 12 yards out. 

After the halftime break in the 53rd minute, Tessa Fernandez set up Kitchen with a touch pass, which she then fired in for her second goal of the day. Three minutes later, Kitchen scored an unassisted goal to complete her hat trick and put the Knights ahead, 5-0/

Josephson put in her fourth goal of the season in the 68th minute and sophomore Tatiana Idarza, in her final home game as a Knight, capped off the day with her first goal of the season in the 86th minute.

It was the seventh shutout win of the season for the Knights.