“You’re so money and you don’t even know it,” the character Trent, played by Vince Vaughn, tells Mike, who’s played by Jon Favreau.
But this line for Corona del Mar’s Money has nothing to do with getting a girl’s phone number and waiting for the right time to call her up. It has more do with her realizing that she can capitalize on the scoring opportunities that come her way.
She did that in the Sea Kings’ game against Back Bay rival Newport Harbor for the Holiday Cup championship. Money scored three goals in CdM’s 5-3 win at Newport Harbor on New Year’s Eve.
The win kept the Sea Kings undefeated, improving to 10-0.
But this victory was a bit different from the first time CdM beat Newport Harbor, 6-3, on Dec. 20. In that game, Money didn’t score, missing the cage twice when she had an open shot.
In the Holiday Cup title game, Money had more opportunities to take a shot from the outside. This time, she cashed in.
“It brought back the memory [of missing those shots],” Money said of what she thought when she had outside-shot opportunities on Dec. 31. “I was thinking, ‘I have to make this.” And, I did make it.”
That wasn’t the only time Money used the past as motivation. Money, like the rest of the Sea Kings, want to win the CIF Southern Section Division I title. They were so close last year, when they lost a three-goal lead to Newport Harbor in the championship game.
Money said that title match was her favorite athletic moment. Of course, she didn’t like the loss, but just the experience of playing for a CIF title helped her, she said.
“It was such a great experience,” Money said. “It was probably the funnest game I have played in.”
