Seahawks shine in Walnut Creek
Over a blustery autumn weekend, the Pleasanton Seahawks put on a roaring performance at the Walnut Creek CBA+ Meet, held Oct. 11-12.
New Pacific Reportable Times: Maxime Rooney (11). New Far Westerns Cuts: Rachel Knowles (12) and Katie Woods (12). New JO Cuts included Samantha Howell (10), Adrien Rooney (10), Eva Chung (12), Hannah Folmar (12), Maggie Kauffeld (12), Lillian Sun (12), Regis LaChance (11) and Kevin McLaughlin (14).
Stepping it up a notch, new A-times were delivered by Sara Jeffrey (8), Sean Iritani (8), Olivier Rooney (8), Audrick Antonio (10), Chloe Bantock (12), Madison Burson (11), Analese Chinn (11), Stephanie Jeffrey (12), Anna Parker (11), Moriah Simonds (11), Alex Gilchrist (12), RJ Scott (12), Bridget Booe (13) and Emily Saccullo (15). New B-times included Amber Miller (7), Lauren Dennen (9), Emma Kauffeld (10), Nja Zuniga (9), Nicolas Costa (9), Laura Budvytis (11), Shu-Shu Hsia (12), Jonathan Ong (12) and Gwen Kelly (13). The 100% Best Times were achieved by Sara Jeffrey (8), Amber Miller (7), Sean Iritani (8), Olivier Rooney (8), Jazz Aulakh (9), Madison Geramoni (10), Samantha Howell (10), Sanika Kulkarni (10), Nicolas Costa (9), Laura Budvytis (11), Madison Burson (11), Shu-Shu Hsia (12), Stephanie Jeffrey (12), Moriah Simonds (11), Martynas Budvytis (12), RJ Scott (12) and Gwen Kelly (13).
BUSC U6 Comets get aggressive
The BUSC Division 4 U6 Comets played an outstanding game against a tough Cobra team. The Comets used an aggressive offensive attack led by JT Brugaletta, who scored a hat-trick. Additional goals were made by Noah Ishaya, Charlie Buckley and Kale Pressler. James Weaver was instrumental in defending the Comets’ goal.
Rage D3U16 take down Fusion 6-1
The Pleasanton Rage D3U16 Orange used an amalgamation of five players to score six goals in dismantling the Walunut Creek Fusion 6-1 at Val Vista on Saturday. Showing little appreciation for the Fusion’s willingness to change time and venue to accomodate homecoming preparations, the Rage outshot the Fusion 25-3. Goals were scored by Delaney Homes (2),Gabby Perko, Katey Cloonan, Danielle Homan, and Kiley Zieker. The Cloonan goal was impressive, with her chesting the ball home after a long run and cross from Homan to keep the ball in play. Goalkeeper Carly Boehmer came out of goal several times to prevent the Fusion from getting more shots.
Ballistic United Soccer Club
Division 4- Recreational Publicity
Game Date: 10/17/09
Age Group: U6
Home Team Name: Coyotes, Visitor Team Name: Cougars
Top Offensive Players: Anthony Mitine #7, Zachary Riley #10, Colby Wallace #6, Jaden Lewis #2. Top Defensive Players: Kyle Franck #9, Justin Wallace #3, Dylan Gray #8, Ryan Armstrong #4
Highlights: Playing with fierce faces, the Coyotes played a great game. The boys managed to save the ball, constantly kicking it away from their goal. Many of the players took long, hard kicks straight towards the Cougars’ goal.
Age Group: U7
Home Team Name: Forty Niners, Visitor Team Name: Flames
Highlights: The Flames played an outstanding game against a tough Forty Niner team. Goals were made by Aidan Roloff, Parker Hill, Trevor Cheng and Hayden Rice. Chand Duggal and Christopher Overton were instrumental in keeping the pressure on the Forty Niners’ goal. The Flames demonstrated their passing skills and their ability to come together as a team.
Home Team Name: Fireballs, Visitor Team Name: Flash
Top Offensive Players: Kevin Li, Matthew Hong, Arun Ahuja, Tyler Chen
Top Defensive Players: Kevin Hong, Dongkun Lee, Tyler Mahoney
Highlights: The depth of the Fireballs’ skills came across in Saturday’s game. Despite giving up the first goal to the Flash, the Fireballs did not lose confidence. After regrouping, goals were scored by multiple members of the Fireballs team. After Tyler Chen led off with the first goal, Kevin Li scored several goals. Showing determination, Matthew Hong brought the ball down the field multiple times and scored a goal. Arun Ahuja showed great skill in moving the ball around the midfield and was also rewarded with a goal. But the offense was able to score goals because the Fireballs’ defense proved to be solid again the Flash. As goalie, Kevin Hong stopped all of the balls that came his way. With a strong kick, Dongkun Lee cleared the ball out of danger time after time.
Age Group: U8
Home Team Name: Marauders, Visitor Team Name: Minutemen
Top Offensive Players: Leopold Borghese, Ben Schwartz
Top Defensive Players: Cole Bartolo, Timmy Gallagher
Highlights: The Minutemen and Marauders played a fast-paced and exciting game full of excellent passing and brilliant goaltending. Sharp passing by the Minutemen, especially by Leopold Borghese, Ben Schwartz and Timmy Gallagher, led to 6 different Minutemen scoring and 5 different players with assists. Both the Marauders and the Minutemen played excellent defense, with Cole Bartolo flying all over the field for the Minutemen achieving multiple steals and great passes down the field for his offense. The Marauders’ outstanding goaltending kept the game very tight most of the way. Overall it was a great effort by both teams and an action-packed game for the spectators.
Age Group: U9
Home Team Name: Titans, Visitor Team Name: Tyrants
Top Offensive Players: Maxwell Stubbs
Top Defensive Players: Jonathan Ouyang
Highlights: The Tyrants met with the Titans for the second time this season with the opening goal in the first half scored by Maxwell Stubbs. Several attempts on goal were made by both teams in this very exciting match. Defensive play for the Tyrants was maintained by Maximilian Maratsos in goal and Mihir Weling and Shawn Keswani tag teaming left and right back. Joao Pais, Euann Owens and Brandon Doyle held the midfield tight with an equalizer scored by the Titans bringing the first half to a close. Both teams entered the second half with great energy and strong positional play. The Tyrants switched their midfield play with Vishal Cherukuri, Rohit Jaganathan and Eustyn Trinh in offensive midfield positions. Jonathan Ouyang played very stong defensive play in the second half. The Titans came back with an equalizing goal in the second half from the Tyrants striker, Maxwell Stubbs in a nail biting finish with minutes remaining on the clock.
Age Group: U10
Home Team Name: Avalanche, Score: 0. Visitor Team Name: Admirals, Score: 2
Top Offensive Players: Brian Neri, Timmy Wolfenberger, Donovan Brunk Jr.
Top Defensive Players: Jeremy Mast, Joshua Kyong, Kaden Brady
Highlights: the admirals played their best game of the season going into halftime with a score of 0-0 thanks to an outstanding defense led by Jeremy Mast. then coach donovan brunk gave the admirals a inspiring speech and pep talk at half time that seemed to work as the Admirals came out on fire scoring two goals one by Timmy Wolfenberger and the other by Jeremy Mast with a final score of 2-0.
Age Group: U12
Home Team Name: Revolution, Score: 1, Visitor Team Name: Rays, Score: 4
Highlights: The undefeated Rays took on a spunky Revolution Saturday morning at Harvest Park Field. The Rays got off to a good start five minutes into the game when Keegan Locher made a great cross from the right side of the field to Kevin Yang who out huslted the defender and popped in a score. The Rays seemed to have a head of steam up and soon thereafter Jordan Singh mad a stellar cross from the left side to Shaun Kienhofer who struck it firmly into the upper right hand corner of the net. Then Max Kim, who’s score a minute earlier had been called back for offsides, returned Andrew Bailey’s pass from the same former play allowing Bailey a left footed score. The Rays seemed unstoppable but the Revolution dug in! Revolution Goalie Michael Howard allowed no more scores for the half and just prior to the whistle Revolution forward Dario Loriato retaliated with a break through strike to the opposite side of the net from the left side. Post halftime Revolution defense further raised the bar for the Rays and Revolution goalie Dhruv Rohan got very stingey with one great save after another. However, the Revolution was down 3-1 and needed points on the board to recover. The Rays defense again was incredible denying the Revolution one offensive opportunity after another. The Rays ended the game with a final score when Andrew Bailey crossed a through ball to Shaun Kienhofer who pounded the ball in once more. The Rays were lucky on the day and won 4-1.
Home Team Name: Renegades, Score: 2, Visitor Team Name: Raiders, Score: 4
Top Offensive Players: Angelo Abellar, Bradley Green, Alex Sung
Top Defensive Players: Kevin Lee, Noah Gushurst
Highlights: Goals scored by Bradley Green and Alex Song
Home Team Name: Rapids, Score: 1, Visitor Team Name: Rampage, Score: 3
Top Offensive Players: Ben Foos
Top Defensive Players: Nate Gipson
Highlights: For the second consecutive week, the Rapids fell short against an undefeated team – this time a seesaw battle against the Rampage that remained 1-0 until the game’s final six minutes. The Rampage applied offensive pressure from the opening whistle, forcing Rapids fullback Zach Sonnenschein to bust up a breakaway in the first minute, and Eric Holmes to kill another minutes later. The Rampage broke through eight minutes into the game on a corner kick that pinballed around a crowd, then squirted into the goal. From there, the game increased in intensity, with both sides threatening but unable to crack through unyielding defenses. But with 6 minutes remaining in the match, the Rampage broke open the match when a throw-in rattled around the mouth of the Rapids’ goal and a Rampage player popped it past the onrushing goalie. Two minutes later, as the Rapids tried to ratchet up the offensive pressure, a Rampage forward sprinted between two defenders at midfield for a breakaway goal. The Rapids broke up the shutout seconds before the final whistle, when forward Tyler Kline turned a hand-ball near midfield into a soaring penalty kick that caromed off the goalie’s hands and into the goal.
Home Team Name: Raiders, Score: 4, Visitor Team Name: Renegades, Score: 2
Top Offensive Players: Graham Catudal, Dev Naik, Joshua Cho, Gabe Hencker
Top Defensive Players: Jordan Reni, Danny Hanna, Kevin Almeida, Chris Bayley
Highlights: Chris Bayley and rest of the Raiders defense subdued fierce attacks from Renegades and led the Raiders to victory. With a strong wall of defense in behind, Raiders offense kept possession of the ball early. Graham Catudal, Dev Naik and Joshua Cho made several attempts to score but either hit posts or missed a goal by inches. The game remained scoreless and kept spectators on the edge of their seat until the last minute in the first half when Graham fired a long shot from the right side and put it over the goalie’s head. In the 2nd half, Graham Catudal made two additional goals to lead Raiders 3-0. Renegades almost erased that large deficit when its fierce counter attack weakened the Raiders defense and stole two goals within 3 minutes. With less than four minutes left in the 2nd half, Raiders eventually sealed the victory when Graham Catudal made a surprising “hook turn” shot to the unsuspecting goalie.
Age Group: U14
Home Team Name: Phoenix. Score: 6, Visitor Team Name: Power, Score: 0
Highlights: Phoenix beat Power by score of 6 – 0. Brian Shimanuki scored 3 goals. Karan Samel, Matthew Micheletti & Thomas McNamara scored 1 goal each.
U14 RAGE Orange Division 3 U14 is sending you a publicity form:
Team: U14 RAGE Orange
Date of Game: 10/15-10/18
Location: Pleasanton
Home Team: RAGE Score: 5
Visitor Team: DUBLIN Score: 0
Highlights:
U14 RAGE Orange played 1st place Mustang Eagles Thursday night under the lights. Both teams played good defense with the only goal scored was on a RAGE fullback head deflection to an Eagle midfielder who hit the upper corner of the net. The fast Eagles defense shutdown all RAGE breakaways. RAGE did have 1 good opportunity to score on a nice cross from Courtney Seams, but the ensuing shot sailed past the goal. Katie Oross was solid on defense. (MUSTANG 1- RAGE 0) U14 Orange then battled a physical Newark team Saturday with both teams looking for their third win of the season. Newark quickly struck on a breakaway goal. Newark struck again sending a free kick into the net after a RAGE fullback foul. RAGE rebounded when Vanessa Villanueva sent a perfect cross from the right side 1 foot in front of the goal where Rebecca Dumanski finished it off. Kayla Bautista followed sending a cross from the right side to Claire Williams who found net. On the ensuing kick-off a Newark forward dribbled through 3 RAGE defenders and sent a shot into the upper corner to retake the lead. Newark finished the scoring with another breakaway. (NEWARK 4 – RAGE 2) U14 Orange finished the weekend playing Dublin, who was hungry for their 1st win. RAGE immediately took the lead after Ariel Gershman took the ball wide to Paige Peterson who sent a nice cross to Vanessa in front of the goal for a score. RAGE ended the 1st half when Paige scored on a Rebecca pass. RAGE started the half with Vanessa scoring her 2nd goal on a pass up from Lindsay Curlett. Paige then responded with her 2nd goal on a pass from Claire. Lindsay finished the RAGE scoring on a PK. (RAGE 5 – DUBLIN 0)
Top Offensive Players: Vanessa Villanueva, Paige Peterson, Claire Williams
Top Defensive Players: Katie Oross, Olivia Deutschman, Patricia Norcross
Team: RAGE U12 Premier
Date of Game: 10/17/09
Location: Pleasant Hill
Home Team: Heritage Dynamite Score: 1
Visitor Team: RAGE U12 Premier Score: 0
Highlights:
RAGE played tough against the Heritage Dynamite on a rain-slicked field in Pleasant Hill and lost a heartbreaker in the end, 1-0. Although unaccustomed to playing on turf, RAGE matched play with Heritage courtesy of strong overall performances from Kayla Bowers, Katlyn Franciskovich, Hailey Mann and Malissa Shadle at midfield. Juliana Leedeman, Carley Robertson and Shadle all took shots on goal. The battle continued in the second half and saw skilled play by midfielder Makenna Elias, the defensive trio of Jasmine Dessouky, Eilis Hegarty and Hannah McGillivray and star goalie, Sophia Brown. With the score tied at 0-0, and just seconds to go before the end of game, Heritage scored their winning goal.
Team: Pleasanton Rage U-9 Black
Date of Game: 10/17/2009
Location: Pleasanton Sports Park
Home Team: Rage U-9 Black Score:
Visitor Team: Livermore Elite Avelanche Score:
Highlights:
A well played early morning match in Pleasanton saw some great offensive moves by Rage players Abby Smith,Cierra Lofthouse-Wolf and Madison Hildebrand. Teamates Emma Monson, Mollie McKay and Katie Murphy showed great hustle and held down the defense. Solid Goalkeeping from Emily Esparza and Emma Tsztoo.
Team: Rage U-12 White
Date of Game: 10/17/09
Location: Sports Park Fied 4
Home Team: Rage Score: 6
Visitor Team: Sunnyvale Lightning Score: 0
Highlights:
The game highlight was the encredible passing game the rage white team demonstrated. The rage team played very smart soccer relying on the skills they are learning. The team had communication and tacticale crisp passing moves. Hanna Mallie had a hat trick; while Heather Jackson, Lisa Defeo, and Sadie Moore all scored for the rage white team.
Top Offensive Players: Christina Echavia, MacKenzie Bammer, Margaret Kilday, Mildreth Gil
Top Defensive Players: Megan Martin, Kennedy Truex, Bella Villafuerte
Team: Rage U15 AC
Date of Game: 10/17/2009
Location: Sports Park
Home Team: Rage U15 AC Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Score: 1
Visitor Team: Walnut Creek Heat               Score: 0
Highlights:
The Rage U15 AC team beat the Walnut Creek Heat 1-0 in a nailbiting match on Saturday. The winning goal was scored by Haley Jackson on a pk. The Walnut Creek Heat was held scoreless due to the outstanding defense of Jessie Swinkels, Christina Choing, Nicole Barbakos, and Meredith Jaeger.
Top Offensive Players: Mikala Morgenroth and Amanda Emery
Top Defensive Players: Christina Choing and Jessie Swinkels
Pleasanton Rage Division 4 for Saturday October 17, 2009.
AGE GROUP: U14
Offense moving better than most in this water socked field as first game and closes in but Chaos defense is right there to block. Offense is off and running when she blocks an defensive kick that puts her in prime goal range and slices it right past the goalie and just misses net. Shayna Doyle and Karah Paul as strong Defense enables Alexa to run the ball up the side to cross over and center it to kick and score first goal when the ball just sneaks past their goalie.Cassidy Holmes midfield rebounds ball up left sideline, but gets intercepted and Sophie Hudson gains back control and runs it up right sideline over to Alexa that attempts to score three more times right in a row, but defense is right there each time. Chaos is able to tie. Then Karah as defense power kicks the ball at least 30 feet out and it takes one bounce and past goalie to make it number two for Vortex before half ends. Katie Eppand, Isabelle Adams, Maddie Gallagher, Alexa Hansen and Priyanka Davar all attempt to score but Chaos defense too strong, but then our defensive line of Shayna Doyle, Karah Paul,Maddie Jackson and Zoe Zimpher are also strong enough to ward off future scoring.
SCORES: Vortex 2, Chaos 1;
TOP OFFENSIVE PLAYERS: Alexa Hansen, Karah Paul, Katie Eppand – Vortex;
TOP DEFENSIVE PLAYERS: Shayna Doyle, Zoe Zimpher, Maddie Jackson – Vortex;
AGE GROUP: U12
Taylor McCuthins got the 1st goal and then followed by Tasia Halim scored on a great cross from Sam Villeges. Jessica Rieble next to score unassisted. Then Hayden Harker decided she would take the ball down the flank and scored unassisted on a gorgeous shot. The last 3 goals from Ellen Olsen, Taylor McCutchins and Kelly O’Neil
SCORES: Barracudas 7, Black Widows 0; Out-RAGE-ous 0, Strikers 6; Panthers 2, Athletica 1;
TOP OFFENSIVE PLAYERS: Taylor McCutchins, Jessica Rieble, Tasia Halim – Barracudas; Lauren Jepson, Carly Marceau, Laura Marie Belichak – Strikers; Cara Ingram, Lauren Chew -Athletica;
TOP DEFENSIVE PLAYERS: Jessica Martin, Katie Zieker, Caroline Gerlach – Barracudas; April Maestras, Sam Osterholt, Emma Hanson – Out-RAGE-ous; Louisa DuBose, Maya Block, Maci Manos – Athletica;
AGE GROUP: U9
The Polka Dots came out and showed their “spots” in the first half however it was the Princess Warriors that showed their savage strength to overcome the Polka Dots. Starting goalies Viviana Carnes had 3 block shots and Allyson DeFazio not only scored a goal in the first half but also prevented 4 shots from the Dots to allow her team to come back. Forwards Ally Wu had 7 attempts to the goal and finally connected with a goal up the middle and other goals were made by teammates Katie Schmitz and Kyra Shah who had a quick shot from the left side. Defenders Melanie Woo, Hannah Thoe and Pearl Melone showed their skills with several traps and then kicked the balls out of the PWs side. Attackers Ashley Lopez, Harsha Mudaliar and Gianna Lyng showed their speed and made several shots to the goal.
TOP OFFENSIVE PLAYERS: Ally Wu, Kyra Shah, Katlie Schmitz – Princess Warriors; Emily S., Adalyn R., Alaysia S. – Polar Bears;
TOP DEFENSIVE PLAYERS: Â Allyson DeFazio, Gianna Lyng, Hannah Thoe – Princess Warriors; Vinix A.,Bliss B.,Maddie R. – Polar Bears
AGE GROUP: U8
The magnificant martians remained undefeated another week by winning a close game. Savana Sadler, Audrey Alavi, and Lily Manos scored each one goal.
TOP OFFENSIVE PLAYERS: Megan Felix, Anika Kapai, Lily Manos – Martians; Grace Ose, Alexis Gundermann, Brooke Delaney – Monkey’s; Hanna Lurie, Hanna Jacob, Sarah Rich – Monsters;
TOP DEFENSIVE PLAYERS: Megan Guerra, Sophia Barletta, Audrey Alavi – Martians; Kieran Wallace, Megan Reilly, Lindsay Otto – Monkey’s; Sophia Shiblaq, Hannah Jacob, Lindsey Maddlon – Monsters
AGE GROUP: U6
The Divas were ready to extinquish the explosive Dynamites on Saturday’s afternoon game. The game started with Forward Ava Ricker scoring the only goal for the Divas and she also helped defensively by kicking a ball right before the ball was approaching the net. Teammates Kayla Galvez, Ella Andrews and Laney Lopez attempted several kicks near the hot net of the Dynamites. Other teammates Emma Schurhoff, Karla Aello, Rachel Mattison and Maddie Neves moved the ball down the field and continued to kick the ball away from the burning Dynamite team.
TOP OFFENSIVE PLAYERS: Ava Ricker, Kayla Galvez, Ella Andrews – Divas; Claire K., Julia S., Maggie N. – Daffodils;
TOP DEFENSIVE PLAYERS: Laney Lopez, Karla Aello, Maddie Neves – Divas; Mariah A., Paige M., Sophia M. – Daffodils;
