HUMONGOUS NEWS: The Under 12 CASL girls Stars won the Pitea Summer Games Final 1-0 on a Heidi Kreis goal in the sixth minute. This is the first foreign tournament championship for a CASL Challenge Ambassador team since the program started three years ago. They beat a Swedish team in the final. There were 64+ teams in the age bracket. Alexa Bird, filling in for the injured Megan Harvey, got the shutout. The team members are: Coach Steve Kreis, Manager Sherry Upton, # 3 Heidi Kreis, # 6 Shannon McCarter, # 8 Lauren Monroe, # 9 Emma Upton, # 10 Hannah Elgamal, # 11 Daniella Mainz, # 12 Caroline Moore, # 16 Alexa Bird, # 21 Sophie Elgamal, # 23 Lauren Koesy, # 1 Megan Harvey. CONGRATULATIONS!
CASL had a 4-1-3 record in the Sunday consolation finals on Sunday to improve the league's record to 26-15-5 in Pitea. An overnight train will take the 240 CASL folks to Stockholm tonight as they leave the midnight sun!
BIGGER NEWS: At 11 am Sunday morning, the Under 12 girls Stars won their semi-final in penalty kicks to advance to the final. The Americans took a 2-0 lead with goals in the 10th minute and 21st minute by Lauren Monroe and Daniella Mainz respectively in the 30 minute game. However, the Swedish team fought back and scored two goals in the last two minutes to tie it at 2-2. The teams played a 5 minute golden goal overtime and the game remained tied. The teams headed to penalty kicks and successful kicks by Daniella Mainz and Heidi Kreis were the only kicks needed as fill-in goalkeeper, Alexa Bird stopped four shots. The team now heads to the final at 2:45 pm. There should be a big crowd as the entire 240 member CASL group should be on the sideline.
BIG NEWS: At 8 am Sunday morning, the Under 12 CASL girls Stars coached by Steve Kreis won their quarterfinal convincingly over a team from Sweden 5-0. A pre-game warm-up injury to goalkeeper Megan Harvey didn't bode well for the CASL girls but in the 2nd minute Sophie Elgamal hit a ball off the near post and in from 10 yards out and the girls were up 1-0. Four minutes later, Heidi Kreis hit a severe angle shot that made it through the defense for the 2nd goal. In the 12th minute of the 30 minute game, Sophie Elmagal got her 2nd goal of the match and the girls headed to 1/2 time with a 3-0 lead. Lauren Monroe and Shannon McCarter scored in the 19th and 29th minute respectively and the final of 5-0 went to the CASL team. Alexa Bird filled in admirably for Harvey making one big save by tipping a hard high shot over the bar. The team will play against another Swedish team in the semi-final at 11 am. A win would take them to the 2:45 final and a loss to the 2 pm 3rd place game.
CASL teams had a record of 16-9-2 in the round robins with 6 of the 9 teams advancing to the knockout round. In Saturday's knockout games, CASL teams were 3-5 with only 1 team advancing to the Sunday knockout stage. That team is the Girls' U12 Stars who won in Penalty kicks and then 3-0 to advance to the quarterfinals. All other teams will play a Sunday Consolation Friendly then all will head to the train station for an overnight train ride to Stockholm. The girls will head back to RDU on Tuesday and the boys will head back on Wednesday. The overall record for the CASL teams in the Pitea Summer Games is 19-14-2 after Saturday. The wrap up for the tournament thus far is listed below!
CASL has 120 Challenge players playing on 9 teams in the Pitea Summer Games in Pitea, Sweden. There are 750+ teams in this tournament from over 20 countries. Pitea is less than 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle and therefore is basked in daylight for 24 hours a day at this time of year. Games begin today (Friday) and continue through Sunday. Today, all 9 teams have two of their three round robin games. One of their two games will be late at night but with no flood lights as they will be playing under the "midnight sun!"
I will blog after the early games and then again after the night games. Please see below for the games and results as we have them. I will try to provide goal scorers and goalkeepers for each game. The team coaches and managers have been instrumental for this trip and are listed below, as well.
The participants have already played 1 or 2 friendlies against local Pitea teams or when they were in Stockholm at the beginning of the trip (Pitea is 600+ miles due north of Stockholm). The teams in Stockholm were from the Sollentuna club. The participants also visited the VASA Museum which houses a 300 year old pirate ship that was raised from the floor of the Baltic Sea 50 years ago and also went to the Groena Lund amusement park while in Stockholm. All the participants took an overnight train to Pitea from Stockholm.
The opening ceremonies are tonight between games 1 and 2 for each team. It will be quite an event as the teams parade through the town of 40,000 and are cheered on by the locals! More details will be forthcoming post-event!
The games:
Boys U12 Liberty
Coach Scott Wipperman; Manager Marcella McCord
Saltdalkamerat (Norway) Final: 3-2
Goal Scorers: Joe Ruslander, Dalen Bleiman, Cody Holtman
Goalkeepers: Benjamin McCord
Tegs SK Boleang (Sweden) Final: 0-2
Goal Scorers:
GKs: Kurtis Nguyen, Benjamin McCord
Pitea IF (Sweden) Final: 7-0
Goal Scorers: Evan Dezutto, Christian Wady 2, Jefferson Norwood, Charles Johnson, Luke Bishop, Timmy Wipperman
GKs: Kurtis Nguyen
ADVANCE to ROUND of 32 as 2nd place in group v team from Estonia-lost 0-1
Gk: Benjamin McCord
Boys U12 Revolution
Coach Jeff Weisner; Manager Stephanie Vidal
IK Junkeren (Norway) Final: 2-4
Goal Scorers:Matthew Dubach, Simon Copeland
GKs:Nolan Lory
Stanfors AIK (Sweden) Final: 2-0
Goal Scorers: Nolan Lory, Chris Vidal
GKs: Nolan Lory, Michael Navia
Rutviks SK Final: 3-1
Goal Scorers: Simon Copeland, Christopher Vidal, Harrison Meissner
Gks: Nolan Lory, Michael Navia
2nd in group but did not advance to Round of 32 due to tie breaker
Boys U13
Coach Mike McAndrew; Manager Alyssa Siar
Bossekop (Norway) Final 2-0
Goal Scorers:Michael Thomas, Kian Charkhesht
Gks: Evan Gallagher
GBK (Finland) Final: 2-1
Goal Scorers: Spencer Saunders
Gks: Cameron Strapp
Holmsund/Sandvik Final: 2-2
Goal scorers: Michael Thomas 2
Gks: Evan Gallagher
ADVANCED to ROUND of 32 as group winner vs a team from Norway; Final 3-0
Goal Scorers: Aaron Baker, Spencer Saunders, Michael Thomas
GKs: Evan Gallagher
ADVANCED to ROUND of 16 vs a team from Norway; Final 0-4
GKs: Evan Gallagher
Boys U15
Coach Scott McGuinn
IF Floya 3 (Norway) Final: 0-1
Goal Scorers:
GKs: Peter Kassay
ISK/BSK (Sweden) Final: 0-2
Goal Scorers:
GKs: Peter Kassay
IFK-Arvidsjaur Final: 2-4
Goal Scorers: Daniel Hill, Mark Hanley
GKs: Peter Kassay
Girls U12 Stars
Coach Steve Kreis; Manager Sherry Upton
La FK Musta (Finland) Final: 3-1
Goal Scorers:Heidi Kreis, Hannah Elgamal, Lauren Monroe,
GKs: Megan Harvey
Robacks (Sweden) Final: 2-1
Goal Scorers: Daniella Mainz, Lauren Monroe
GKs: Alexa Bird, Megan Harvey
Lira BK Final: 0-2
Goal Scorers:
GKs: Emma Upton
ADVANCED to ROUND of 32 as 2nd place in group vs a team from Sweden Final: 0-0 CASL wins on Penalty kicks 2-1; Penalty kick goals by Alexa Bird and Caroline Moore with Megan Harvey in goal
ADVANCED to ROUND of 16 vs a team from Sweden Final: 3-0
Goal Scorers: Daniella Mainz, Emma Upton, Sophie Elmagal
GK: Megan Harvey
ADVANCED to QUARTERFINALS vs team from Sweden on Sunday at 8 am local time
Girls U12 Stripes
Coach Eric Navarro; Manager Leslie Krussow
Gallivare SK (Sweden) Final: 8-0
Goal Scorers: Bailey Peterson, Gabby Derosier, Anna Krussow, Caty Navarro 3, Kylie Olexa 2
GKs:Taylor Kassay, Gaby Derosier
Sandakerrs SK (Sweden) Final: 7-2
Goal Scorers: Julianna Micchia, Caty Navarro, Casey Shuey, Anna Krussow, Bailey Peterson, Taylor Kassay, Riley Mozingo
GKs: Taylor Kassay, Gabby Derosier
Innstrandems IL Final: 5-0
Goal Scorers: Gabby Derosier, Casey Shuey 2, Anna Krussow 2
GKs: Taylor Kassay, Gabby Derosier
ADVANCED to ROUND of 32 as group winner vs a team from Sweden Final: 0-1
GK: Taylor Kassay, Gabby Derosier
Girls U13
Coach Cid Cardoso; Manager Don Triolo
MSSK (Sweden) Final: 1-0
Goal Scorers: Helen Ahearne-Ray
GKs: Morgan Youst, Jillian Bridges
Pedersore FF (Finland) Final: 2-0
Goal Scorers: Helen Ahearne-Ray, Alex LaRocca,
GKs: Morgan Youst, Jillian Bridges
ONS Valkoinen Final: 0-0
Goal Scorers:
GKs: Jillian Bridges, Morgan Youst
ADVNCED to ROUND of 32 as group winner vs a team from Finland Final 1-2
Goal Scorers: Alex Cardoso
GKs: Morgan Youst, Jillian Bridges
Girls U14
Coach Eric Mason; Manager Lisa Sanchez
Gammelstads IF (Sweden) Final: 3-1
Goal Scorers:Carly Mounts 2, Mackenzie Thorley
GKs: Lydia Fields
Alta IF 1 (Norway) Final: 3-0
Goal Scorers: Sarah Comstock, Carly Mounts 2
GKs: Lydia Fields
ISK-BSK (Norway) Final: 4-0
Goal Scorers: Carly Mounts, Maddie Mason, Sarah Watson, Brittany Bunzey
GKs: Lydia Fields
ADVANCED to ROUND of 16 as the group winner vs a team from Sweden Final: 0-1
GK: Lydia Fields
Girls U15
Coach David Hammond
Lulea DF (Sweden) Final: 1-2
Goal Scorers: Trish Bishop
GKs: Susie Zigante
Bossmo and Ytteren (Sweden) Final: 0-2
Goal Scorers:
GKs: Susie Zigante
Pitea IF (Sweden) Final: 0-5
Goal Scorers:
GKs: Susie Zigante
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