It’s a historic moment for Clovis West‘s girls soccer team. The Golden Eagles have secured their first league title in 21 years.
Despite losing the regular season finale 1-0 against Clovis North on Tuesday, Clovis West did just enough to win the TRAC title. While Clovis West lost its match against the Broncos, Buchanan also lost against Clovis East. As a result, the Golden Eagles secured sole possession of first-place.
“It kind of feels unreal. But it’s definitely motivating,” Clovis West junior Emma Calvillo said after her team celebrated their big moment. “We had that chip on our shoulders all season, so it has definitely motivated us. We have been there for each other through all the adversity. We’re going to the playoffs feeling confident, so it’s definitely an unreal feeling.”
The Golden Eagles have seen a series of challenges along the away, including a handful of injuries. And still, they have managed to overcome the hurdles.
“We’ve had injured players, sick players, a lot of adversity that has came to our team this season, but we’ve had players that have stepped up,” Calvillo said.
As they move forward to the playoffs, the Golden Eagles feel that their togetherness will show even more.
“Our sisterhood is a big part of it,” Calvillo said. “We’re a very close group so I think that helps our connection on the field and picking each other up when we face those adversity times.”
| Opponent | W-L-T | PCT | GF | GA | W-L-T | PCT | GF | GA | Streak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Clovis West | 7-2-1 | 0.750 | 17 | 5 | 14-3-2 | 0.789 | 52 | 10 | 1L |
 Clovis East | 6-2-2 | 0.700 | 18 | 12 | 9-5-5 | 0.605 | 38 | 24 | 4W |
 Buchanan | 6-3-1 | 0.650 | 27 | 6 | 14-6-3 | 0.674 | 67 | 19 | 1L |
 Clovis North | 6-3-1 | 0.650 | 20 | 8 | 13-4-4 | 0.714 | 58 | 14 | 1W |
 Clovis | 1-7-2 | 0.200 | 10 | 29 | 5-10-4 | 0.368 | 21 | 40 | 1W |
 Central | 0-9-1 | 0.000 | 1 | 33 | 9-13-3 | 0.420 | 32 | 45 | 5L |
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Two undefeated teams are set to square off on Friday night as TRAC play officially begins. The two 5-0 teams, Clovis and Buchanan High, are seeing each other after dominating the preseason. Clovis High started the season with a 27-12 win against Central Valley Christian, then demolished Edison 53-0. The Cougars followed up with a 57-27 win against Frontier, 41-14 against Salinas and 53-0 vs Bullard.
Junior Deagan Rose completed 12/17 passes with two touchdown passes in the win against Bullard. Cougars’ junior Maddox Merrill also added two rushing touchdowns in the shutout victory.
Buchanan started the season with a 38-0 shutout against St. Pius X-St. Matthias, then won 34-20 vs Kennedy, 61-6 against Edison, 14-10 vs Liberty and 33-13 against Paso Robles.
Buchanan’s rushing game carried the load in the win against Paso Robles. Carvell Wafer, Joshua Madrigal, Wyatt Aviles and Gannon Sever each scored a rushing touchdown in the victory.
Friday’s match-anticipated matchup between Clovis and Buchanan is set to kickoff at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium at 7 p.m. Here is what the players had to say about the excitement leading up to the game.
Clovis High Quarterback Deagan Rose:
This game is super exciting. I’m pretty sure our whole entire team is super pumped to play our first TRAC game against a good team like Buchanan so it should be a fun one.
It’s always good to get off to a good start in our league, especially with what it looks like this year, so if we win this game it will set us up really nice going into next week when we play against North.
Buchanan is a really physical team with great young running backs and secondary. We just have to all do our jobs and not do too much and we should be good.
Clovis High running back Maddox Merrill:
It’s pretty exciting knowing the hype coming into this game. All we have to do is go out there and take care of business. We are fired up and ready to go.
This game is a statement game. The goal is to go out there and show the rest of the TRAC that we aren’t messing around. It’s super important to dominate this game and get rolling.
I would say Buchanan’s best strength is their run game, but based off the pre TRAC games we have one of the best run defenses in the Valley, so I would say we match up pretty good.
Buchanan running back Carvell Wafer Jr:
As a team we are super stoked. It’s our homecoming game against a school we’ve been competing with for the past few years. This is a game that means a lot to us and we’ve been looking forward to this game all year. All I can say is that I’m fired up for this Friday.
This game is most definitely a statement game and we have something to prove. It would be huge to start the TRAC with a win. Clovis High has a solid group, so it would be big for us to get this win and would set the stage for the league.
They have a good passing game, but our defense has been putting in the work everyday to be prepared for Friday night.
