One of the best seasons in West Valley women's soccer history continues after the Vikings shut out visiting Taft 4-0 in the opening round of the 3C2A NorCal Regional championships Wednesday afternoon. The No. 9 Vikings (15-5-2) now travel to Stockton Saturday (11/23) to take on #8 San Joaquin Delta (12-7-3) in round two.

West Valley's defense was the story Wednesday, constantly denying the Cougars (6-11-3) anything resembling an offensive attack. Goalkeeper Nevaeh Reyes stopped all four Taft shots to record her ninth shutout of the year and improve her record to 15-4-2.

The Viking offense, as it has done all season, was firing on all cylinders from the opening whistle. State scoring champion Amanda Avila scored what would be the game-winner 11 minutes in off an assist from Katherine Meck. West Valley would take an insurmountable 3-0 lead into the break on goals from Ximena Heredia (Jaz Quach assist) in the 24^th minute and Quach (Meck) at 40'.

An unassisted Avila buried her 34^th goal of the year in the 66^th minute to close the scoring.