For the Coronado Islanders girls’ soccer team, playing in the City-Western League has been a grind. After six total games played against Western League foes, they stocked with a 1-3-1 record against their Western League peers.

After losses to both Point Loma and Cathedral Catholic, their record tumbled further to 1-5-1, placing them fifth in the league standings.

To start the week, the Islanders took the short drive over Chatsworth Blvd to take on the rival Pointers, a team the Islanders had just gotten the better of only 19 days prior. Despite a solid effort, Coronado would fall in their second game against Point Loma by the final of 2-1.

In the first 20 minutes of the half, the Islanders found themselves struggling to control possession and playing on their heels as Point Loma seemed to fire shot after shot at goal. In total, two of them would find the back of the net to give the Pointers a 2-0 lead early.

To the Islanders’ credit, they’d seem to find a bit more of a groove in the final 16 minutes of play of the half. Sydney Dunn would fire off a pair of shots on the goal, the first coming in the 23rd off a free-kick opportunity that was earned off a great run toward the box by Maren Hawley. The shot would sail just over the top of the goal.

Then, in the 35th, Dunn fired another shot at goal from a distance that was again saved; still, it felt like a matter of time before the Islanders broke through. That breakthrough would come in the first half’s final minutes, specifically in the 37th minute.

After Coronado was awarded a corner kick, Grace Messner would step up and rope a ball toward the back post. There, Kalista Searles would run into the box and head the ball directly past the Pointers’ keeper to put the Islanders on the board and make it a 2-1 game.

At the time, the goal flipped momentum heading into the half, and returning from the break, Coronado’s attack contained to fire shots and create opportunities.

Breck Dunn would get the first close call in the 42nd, which sailed just wide of the near post. Minutes later, a well-struck free kick on goal from Hawley was saved by the diving Pointers’ keeper. Later in the half, Maya Oden would also give the goal a scare with a low runner that slid wide of the right post in the 64th.

Ultimately, though, despite the opportunities the Islanders did well to create for themselves in the second half, they were unable to find the equalizer and, as a result, would fall to the final of 2-1.

Following the 2-1 loss to Point Loma, Coronado would return home for a match against Cathedral Catholic, where things would not go their way either, as they were rolled by the final of 7-0.

The Islanders will return to action this week with just one game on February 7 against Patrick Henry, where they hope to get back into the win column.