Riverside City erased a one-goal deficit after the first overtime to edge West Valley 19-18 in a double-overtime 3C2A third-place barnburner Saturday at Long Beach City College. The Tigers (31-5) had to rally from four goals down in the first quarter and a two-goal hole in the fourth to overcome the Vikings (24-9).

West Valley's Bella Raynes was incendiary in the opening half, lighting up the scoreboard with seven goals, including three straight in the first and all four WVC tallies in the second. The Tigers, however, countered with seven of their own in the second period to erase a 5-3 WVC first quarter lead and take a 10-9 advantage at halftime. 

RCC focused on shutting down Raynes in the second half an kept her from scoring the last two quarters. While Marte Skibba took up the scoring slack for WVC a pair of WVC third period goals to help the Vikings to a 12-10 lead, Riverside's Yosra Elseifi caught fire with two goals to knot it up at 12-12. A Skibba power-play goal at :12 gave WVC a 13-12 advantage heading into the final eight minutes of regulation.

Skibba scored on WVC's first possession of the fourth to put West Valley up 14-12, but three straight Tigers goals, two from Clare Baty and one from Abigail Ruiz, vaulted RCC into a 15-14 lead with 3:40 to go. Anastasija Koreni got the equalizer at 2:13 and Sofia Orlandi Lazzarini gave WVC a 16-15 lead with 1:42 left. Riverside's Presley Burrell sent it to overtime with a huge score at 1:05.

Burrell put RCC up 17-16 in the first OT, but goals from Ava Grays and Skibba helped the Vikings to an 18-17 advantage after the one overtime period. WVC would not find the back of the cage again. Nicole Robertson opened the second three-minute overtime with her third goal of the game and then Elseifi added an insurance tally at 1:14.

Besides Raynes' seven goals - she would finish the three tourney games with 12 goals - Skibba finished with four, followed by three from Orlandi Lazzarini and one each from Grays, Koreni and Mia Sickler-Lopez. Keeper Kayla Tweed ended a stellar postseason with eight saves.

Despite the loss, the Vikings were brilliant in 2024 with an undefeated Coast Conference championship and the program's 5th-consecutive NorCal title.