Reganomics Cap Blues enter BCCAA fray without star forward Jan-Christian Sorensen jsorensen@nsnews.com IT'S the morning after for the Capilano College Blues women's soccer team. They've rolled over, wiped the sleep from their eyes and realized that their go-to girl, Sarah Regan, has left the building. Regan, a Carson Graham product now patrolling the pitch for the UBC T-Birds, led the Blues to their fifth national title in the last seven years during a stellar 2001 season full of personal bests. Leading the BCCAA with nine goals in 11 games, Regan was named the CCAA player of the year and an all-Canadian, the Rucanor CCAA player of the year, a BCCAA, CCAA, provincial and national tournament all-star and a BCCAA and CCAA athlete of the week. Blues women's team head coach Doug Abercrombie admits that, despite tl1e fact that 14 players are returning to the fold this year - the most he's ever had come back to a team after the off-season - it'll be tough to get over the loss of Regan. "She was a big part of the team," he said. "It's tough to replace somebody like that." But, he added, it can only serve to make a better team. Or, at the very least, a team that must now learn how to get more creative making scoring opportunities in her absence. "Everybody's going to have to contribute a little bit more, but to be quite honest I think a lot of the time last year we just pounded the ball to her and said 'Here, Sarah - you go do it'. SARAH REGAN We didn't play the kind of soccer I'd like to see them play all the time, and I think this year without her we'll be forced to play as more of a team. We're going to need not just one person to step up, we're going to need five or six players to step See Preseason page 50 Preseason blues From page 49 up and we're going to need goal scoring from three or four different areas. " It doesn't help any that the Blues' second-in-command and heir to Regan's scoring crown - former Sutherland Sabre Sofia Hidalgo - is nursing a hamstring injury right now and has been unavailable w1til at least this weekend. She put on some offensive fireworks shows of her own last season, ending the season second in league scoring with nine markers in 12 games. She also was named the BCCAA rookie of the year, the 2001 provincial tournament allstar, a two-tin1e BCCAA athlete of the week, a BCCAA firstteam all-star and an allCanadian as well. "She's coming along good now and she'll probably be fit to play (this weekend). It hurts us up front, there's no question about that," said Abercrombie. In the opening weekend of action against Langara Sept. 67, Burnaby Central product Kristina Roe stepped up to filled the void admirably - scoring a hat trick to pace the Blues to a 4-3 win on Saturday, and adding another goal on Sunday - alongside Burnaby's Danielle Tabo - in a come-from-behind 2-2 tie against the Falcons. "We're going to need somebody else like that to chip in here. It can't just be one player this year - it's going to have to come from a couple other people, too," said Abercrombie. Abercrombie welcomes only five rookies to his team this season - although I