Weekend Round-up - Soccer A November 4th, 2006

Kanto Plain Tournament Champions

The Titans MS soccer team finished their season on a winning note at ASIJ last weekend. Victories of 3-1 v. YIS and 14-0 v. St Maur set up the Titans for a championship game v. CAJ, a team which had earlier surprised the widely favored ASIJ side 2-1 in a thrilling encounter to open the tournament. The Titans expected a challenging game as CAJ had demonstrated superb skills in winning both of their preliminary games. However, 9 minutes into the opening half, the score was 4-0 for the Titans and the half ended 5-0. In the second half, CAJ roared back with 3 unanswered goals, and looked to be pressing for a fourth, as the Titans looked stunned and disorganized in their own half. Kevin Line scored perhaps the most important Titan goal of the season to stem teh CAJ onslaught, dribbling past several defenders before depositing the goal into the net, resulting in a final score of 6-3. Tommy Someya and Alex Auvaro were pressedinto service as keepers and performed very well in goal on short notice.

I would like to pay top tribute to a team that scored 44 goals in total during the season and tournament, allowing only 4 goals against them. They began as a team of individuals and learned as the weeks passed to play as a group and make the sacrifices necessary to ensure victory.