Channel Islands High really knows how to put the wild in wild card. <\/p>\n
The host Raiders spotted Santa Fe two goals in the first half of Tuesdays CIF-Southern Section Division 3 wild-card game before coming back with three goals in a 14-minute span to win 3-2. <\/p>\n
Senior forward Luis Mottu put in the tying goal at the 35th minute of the second half, then added the game-winner four minutes later. Armando Mojica scored the Raiders first goal, at the 25-minute mark of the second half. <\/p>\n
Channel Islands (13-5-6) goes on the road for a first-round game at Palmdale-Knight at 3 p.m. Thursday. Santa Fe of Santa Fe Springs ends its season at 12-8-1. <\/p>\n
Santa Fes Chiefs got on the scoreboard early as Luis Calderon scored off an assist from Jonathan Quinones at the 10-minute spot of the first half. Sixteen minutes later, Oscar Caballero scored a goal off a corner kick and suddenly Channel Islands found itself down by two goals. <\/p>\n
As the third-place team from the tough Pacific View League, the Raiders may have already been a little put off by having to play a wild-card game against an at-large team from the Del Rio League. In any case, they were unprepared at the start and had trouble connecting on passes. <\/p>\n
Its been like this most of the season, interim co-coach Francisco Salazar admitted. We start flat and then, all of a sudden, when they score a goal, it wakes us up. We really live very dangerously that way. <\/p>\n
Realizing at halftime they were 40 minutes away from having their postseason end before it had hardly even begun, the Raiders started playing with more ferocity. <\/p>\n
Youve got to give them credit, Salazar said. They came out, they were very aggressive, they had a lot of heart. <\/p>\n
Mottu told his team after the game it had to play that way from the start of the game. In fact, he told the team to start the game thinking theyre down 1-0. <\/p>\n
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