Injury Sidelines Steinert for Season

Lesli Steinert, a top defensive player for El Toro High School’s defending Division 4-A champion, will miss the rest of the girls’ soccer season after seriously injuring her knee last week.

Steinert, a junior who was the 4-A defensive player of the year last season, heard a pop in her left knee while controling the ball early in El Toro’s game Thursday against Mission Viejo. Tests performed Friday showed a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament, which requires surgery to repair, El Toro Coach Kerry Krause said.