The Good, The Bad, The Ugly @Mead Cup

Mead CUP

This Labor Day weekend quite a few of our TFA teams traveled to Dayton and participated in the Mead Cup. This is a great event loaded with good soccer teams at every division. Whether it is the Five Star or Silver division every game is going to be tough to win. Over all I think our teams had a good showing at the Mead. For teams that did not do as well remember two things- 1. this is a preseason event/still early 2. at every division the competition is very good.

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly- Clint Eastwood has just been replaced by Fishie

The good news is that we had 5 teams advance to the Finals. Great job, players and coaches for either winning or making it to the finals. Congrats to: Girls U8 Cindy Essen Champion

U9 Sondra Pflum Champion

U10 Brian Lefevre Champion
U12 Sam Fiore Finalist

Boys U11 Bill Volker Champion

U14 Mark Griffith Semi-Finalist

I saw some great goals out of players over the weekend. I liked Hayley Cox's goal against Kings(State Cup Champs), U11 TFA Elite 2 Kings 0. But, the Baddest two goals came from U12 Fishie. She scored a last second goal, taking a corner kick to beat Hammer and send her team to the Semi's. Corner kick, far post, Goal. Then she scored the Golden goal in overtime against Javanon to send her team to the finals. Great job Fishie.

Sometimes people turn ugly when the game is on the line. We have all seen this happen at every level in Sports. The U10 girls semi-final was no different but may not have been noticed by some folks. At half time our girls are winning 3-1. The Director for Pacesetter has his striker stay in the middle of the field and behind our defenders. In a typical game that would be called off sides. But the U10-under have only a center referee. Well the girl was six yards off sides and scored a goal which counted. Brian makes an adjustment and we end the game with a 8-2 victory. I hope our coaches never do this and that we always coach with Honor and Integrity. Please let me know if you feel any of our staff members have acted inappropriately.

Shout out

I love winning and it is really a great feeling when you get your trophy handed to you. I am 32 and still like receiving trophies. Well the Cronin and Keehan family know what I am talking about, only twice in one weekend. U8 Alex Cronin/Cameron Keehan and U10 Kiley Keehan/Ashley Cronin were crowned Champions this weekend. My buddy Mike Kern tells me that this happened before in August with Ashley/Kiley winning Cincinnati United and Alex/Cameron winning Dog Days. This is shaping up to be a competition of trophies. Good job girls lets keep the trophies coming.