The West Michigan Fire Juniors prevailed, 5-3 today over the MPS Renegades in an offensive-minded 3:00PM match in the U17 girls division at Land O’Lakes Soccer Complex. Lauren Booth and Leslie Weisz both netted two goals for the Fire Juniors in the opening-day victory.

Coastal WFC showed their resilency today at Land O’Lakes Soccer Complex, spotting last season’s U15 semifinalists, HC United, a two-goal advantage before netting three in the second half to emerge 3-2 winners in their first match of U16 Boys group play.
 

“Coming into this match we were looking to just contain the Freedom,” added Mason. “From what I heard about them, they have a very large player pool and each of their players is technically gifted. Judging from the first half, I would say that is accurate. It is always worrisome, being up at half because they will be looking to make changes where I will look to keep everything the same. Hopefully, we can adjust well to the changes they made at half and make some good decisions during the second half.”

The Super Y-League North American Finals opened with fury in the U13 Boys section at Ed Radice Sports Complex on Friday morning. A minute of time hadn’t passed before Ironbound SC’s Kazari Trout found Chris Salazar to open the Jersey club’s 2009 tournament account in their 5-2 victory over NOVA FC.

Seacoast United U14 girls kicked off the 2009 Super Y-League North American finals with a hard fought 2-1 victory over Northern Virginia Majestics Friday afternoon at Ed Radice Sports Complex.

 

U14 Girls - GROUP A: two top defenses square off on opening day in a battle of big-name clubs. The Washington Freedom allowed just 0.45 goals per game this season. The Freedom’s day-one adversaries, the Chicago Magic allowed just 0.85 per match. The exact opposite, two offensive-minded teams meet two hours prior in GROUP B. Seacoast United is averaging 5.6 goals per game to Northern Virginia’s 4.5.