The St. Augustine Saints (San Diego, CA) soccer nudged the visiting Poway Titans (Poway, CA), 3-2 in Thursday's non-league bout.

With the win, St. Augustine moves its record to 3-0 on the campaign. The Saints travel to San Pasqual (Escondido, CA) to battle the Golden Eagles in a non-league bout on Tuesday, December 27. The Golden Eagles go into the bout with a record of 3-0. San Pasqual won 2-1 in their recent non-league bout against Westview (San Diego, CA)

In their next game, the Titans battle the Canyon Crest Academy Ravens (San Diego, CA) in a non-league bout, on Wednesday, January 4. Poway will attempt to move on its 4-2 season record. The Ravens go into the bout with a 8-1 record after their 2-2 non-league Torrey Pines (San Diego, CA).

This game was a tale of two halves. In the 1st 40 minutes, Poway dominated play and jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead on a nice header off a throw in by Carlos Rodriguez. Ben Faller followed that up with another header to give Poway a 2-0 halftime lead.

We looked like we were in great shape with a 2-0 lead and only 16 minutes left. Then St. Augustine finally broke through and made it 1-0 with only 15 minutes remaining. That was quickly followed up by a blast outside the box that found the upper corner to tie the game up only 3 minutes after their 1st goal. It looked like we were heading to P.K.'s, when in the 44th minute, Coonor Keefe sent a nice header past the diving Philip Bru to give St. Augustine the title.

It was a heartbreaking defeat for our Poway boy's. We now get a nice break before we return to action the 1st week in January. We hope to have our playmaker, Eric Budniewski, back by then. Eric has only played in 2 of our 11 games because of a dislocated shoulder.