Finally. A well deserved W.

NCYSA # 6 (1-4-1)
Final: (W) 2-0 to FVAA Flash Red
Goals: Justin (1), Ali (2)
GK: Matthew & Matt
Cards: None

NCYSA # 5 (0-4-1)
Final: (L) 0-8 to Elite White
Goals: None
GK: William & Ali
Cards: None

NCYSA – Fall 2011
Game Four (0-3-1)
v. TUSA Gold (L 0-9)
West Ten Soccer Complex (Eurosport Complex) – Field 4A

Goals: none

GK: Justin & Tyler

Cards: Andrew (Y)

The boys played very well and the 0-6 result is not indicative of quality of our play.  If we played like this two weeks ago, we would have had a different result against PGSA.

NCYSA # 3 (0-2-1)
Final: (L) 0-6 to Elite Black
Goals: None
GK: Gavin & Conner
Cards: None

It was a beautiful day on Saturday as we played a tough game against PGSA – going down 4-0 and fighting back to make 4-2 with many shots rattling the goalposts in the final few minutes.

NCYSA # 2 (0-0-1)
Final: (L) 2-4 to PGSA Stars
Goals: Opponent own goal & Ali
GK: Braeden & Andrew
Cards: None

Well, we braved the weather and played a tough first opponent in Premier White 00.  The boys fought hard on the fast stadium surface and managed a 1-1 tie against our CASL brethren.

NCYSA #1 (0-0-1)

Final: 1-1

Goals: Gavin

GK: David & Mihir

Cards: none

We are off for this next week and will return to the fields on September 10th versus PGSA.

All of the CASL 00 Premier Black galleries that I put up will be here:

http://www.kenbulmerphotography.com/00PremierBlack

Here’s a direct link to the North Meck tournament:

http://www.kenbulmerphotography.com/00PremierBlack/North-Meck-Kickoff

The password will be ‘casl’ (lower case) on all the galleries.

From this past weekend I’ve got about 350 pictures that I’ve flagged that I’ll export to print quality JPG’s and cut them onto a CD for anyone on the team who wants them to print or use on facebook, etc…

If I could summarize the weekend in Charlotte in one phrase – it would be the line above. It is what I heard from multiple boys who were playing through stomach issues, head trauma issues, internal issues and just intense fatigue from playing four games in two days. I just can’t believe that boys who’ve known each other for such a small amount of time – care so much for each other already. I won’t speak for anyone else – but there is no other team that we’d want Andrew to be on and are looking forward to the remainder of the season.

As you know, David was unable to join us due to an emergency that arose on Friday – so we wish him and his family the best.

Also, a big thanks to Coach Eric for his work with the boys already – this was a completely different team than the one that played in a scrimmage last week.

All this said, we did play some games and played very well reaching the Finals in our first tournament together. Here’s the recap of each game:

8:00A – vs. Steele Creek 00 Fusion (W 3-0)

Goals: Conner, William, Matthew B.
GK: Gavin, Ali, Braeden

5:00P – vs. North Meck 00 Red (W 5-3)

Goals: Andrew (3), Braeden, Justin
GK: Mihir, Ali

9:30A (Semis) vs. North Meck 00 Black (W 3-1)

Goals: Justin, William, Braeden
GK: Gavin, Ali

2:00P (Finals) vs. Greensboro United 00 (L 0-3)

Goals: None
GK: Mihir, Gavin

Goal of Weekend - If you had told me after Justin’s goal on Saturday where he took the kickoff and dribbled through everyone and scored that it would be TIED for goal of the weekend – I would have said you were crazy. But, I think we’d have to say it is a tie with Braeden’s Corner Kick goal against North Meck Black in the semis which killed all of their momentum.

Save of the Weekend - All of our GK’s were really outstanding, but Gavin stopped not one but two PK’s and made the save of the weekend on Saturday morning running back to hit a ball that was clearly destined for the back of the net.

Favorite Moment of the Weekend - without a doubt, it has to be Saturday night at Killington’s – watching the boys sit together and play with the video game in the back of the restaurant. It was awesome.

As Ken Bulmer gets his pictures up from the weekend – we’ll post the link so you can see if there are any that interest you. Ken did his best to make sure he took some of everyone. I’m including one for all of you here.

First game is Friday – so we’re back at it again. Thanks again for your help this weekend-

The good news is that Conner RC is back from vacation and we should have a full squad as we prepare for Charlotte this weekend (and moving forward).

Now, the notes:

1. Training this week will be Monday and Wednesday ONLY as we’ll be traveling to Charlotte on Friday for the tournament. Do not come to WRAL on Friday.

2. We have a full squad for the scrimmage Tuesday night against the CASL Hawks. They will be wearing black – so let’s just wear our YTS T-Shirts and black shorts for the game. We will start around 6:15P so please be to Dunkin Donuts (#9) no later than 6:00P. We will finish around 7:30P.

3. I will send a separate email out later today about the tournament this weekend.

Let me know if you have any questions or need anything

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