Recap For Week 3 Of The Roosevelt Island Youth Program Soccer League With Current Standings And Game Summaries

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Here's a recap for Week 3 of the Roosevelt Island Youth Program Soccer League. 

Roosevelt Island Youth Program Soccer League

Weekend Recap

Minor Division

In the first match on Saturday the Royal team, who lost their first two games, finally put it together by defeating Red 4-0. This was a team win by Royal with Taliq Young, Gabriel Price, Eric Leonand Max Thomle each scoring goals. The Red team had strong performances by Simon Rickman and Eva Chenn. Eva had the save of the day; catching a strong penalty shot without flinching.

In the second match, the Lt Blue team defeated Grey 3-1. Lead by Luke Chavez, who scored twice, and Manuel Correa who scored the third goal. Shumas Hasegawa and Luna Jadenwere also in on many plays. The Grey Team had great performances by Jared Pazmino, Frenando Rey and Huang Hangong.

Junior Division

This week the juniors started playing on Thursday evening at 6pm. Royal and Red were playing for first place in the division. Both teams were 2-0 coming into this match. Royal, who had turned in two dominating matches in week one and two met their match. Red defeated those 6-2. Everything seemed to go right for Red. Strong performances were turned in by Aammar Bennani, Blaise Enama and Theo Spedalle. Royals Alesandro Cartegni , Sam Merrick and Jethro hurt played hard.

In the other match, Grey and Lt Blue played to a 6-6 tie. Lt Blue had goals from Andrew “James Cagney) Herlihy, Mark Shinozaki and Tshering Ponjo. Grey spread the field with great passing form DJ Smith, Aaron Pazmino and Chris Ewing.

On Saturday, Grey played undefeated Red in a tough fought match but came up short, losing 5-3. Grey had goals from Aaron Pazmino, Dj Smith and Taj Young. Red had awesome play by Blaise Enama, James Muir and Raymond Efthimiou.

In the other match Royal defeated Lt Blue 8-2. Regis Enama and Karina Loureiro combined for a few goals. Isabel Torkornoo played outstanding goalie stopping a few hard shots as Lt Blue put on a late charge to score.

Senior Division

The Senior Division plays on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Under the lights on Friday evening, we had two fantastic matches. Grey and Lt Blue played to a 4-4 tie and Red defeated Royal 1-0. In the first match, the Grey team played the first half with only ten players and managed to Keep Lt Blue to a 2-2 half. Goals were scored by Luka Deluka and Kevin Leon. Then Grey went head 4-2 early in the second half with goals by Gabby Beola and Mathew Epstien. Lt Blue regrouped and put two in the net to tie the game 4-4, with one minute left on the clock. Shahryar Iqbai and Ivan Vuckovic both scored on assist by Luc Goldmansour.

The second match was a battle between Red and Royal. They played the first half nil – nil(0-0) with both teams have great opportunities to score. Then in the 50th minute, John King, who usually plays goalie, scored to the left side of the net to go up 1-0.

On Saturday, Red was handed their first loss, losing to Lt Blue 2-1. Kevin Leon scored on a penalty kick and Shahryar Iqbai scored the game winner. Roman Bogolomny scored the lone goal for Red.

In the Second match, Royal Blue had a dominating performance beating Grey 9-4. Tristan Todorovic scored 4 times being in the right place every time. Other goals were scored by Iliana Wong(first ever) David Bass, Tsherng Penjor and Jean Marti. Grey, who was missing key players, Xena Ticona, and Mathew Epstein, tried their best. Luka Delic scored great touch goal on an Assist from Luka Deluka. Deluka later scored to try to stay in the match.

Games are on Thursday 6PM to 7:30PM, Friday 6PM to 9:30PM and Saturday morning from 9AM to 4:30PM, everyone is welcome and we offer the best prices in town, “It’s free”.

Stay tuned for more reports from the Roosevelt Island Youth Program Soccer League. The current standings for the Roosevelt Island Youth Program Soccer League are posted on the blog's middle sidebar across from the comment sections together with results from most recent games.