Pocono Cup Soccer Tournament

2006 Premier Champions

With over 200 teams, 2 weekends of competition and Mother Nature giving us every challenge known to mankind, this tournament will go down in history (24 years) as the most difficult to organize and completely finish - ever.  It had rained for 3 days straight leading to the set up week prior to the GIRLS weekend of July 1-2.  The fields were already saturated from all the rain and were facing even more in the coming days. On Monday night before the 1st weekend, the biggest storm of the season rolled through and dropped anywhere from 5-13 inches of rain all along the east coast from Washington DC all the way to Boston.  Unfortunately our main field site was located along the Delaware River and a few of it's tributaries.  On Tuesday, the river overflowed it's banks and on Wednesday night it crested.  Streets were closed, bridges were out, highways were shut down and most importantly, soccer field were destroyed.  Nine of them in all.  On Tuesday night and Wednesday night, the Committee scrambled to find replacement fields and completely re-write the game schedule.  With the help from area schools and local soccer clubs, we were able to find 9 backup fields that worked out perfectly.  The tournament was completed in it's entirety.

And what a tournament it was.  The competition was excellent, the scores were close and games were as exciting as ever.  Congratulations to all the teams that made it to the playoff rounds and worked so hard to prove themselves.  Congratulations to all the teams that dealt with last minute preparations and came to play.  Congratulations to all of those that helped out at the last minute to make this event happen.  Congratulations to another year of premier soccer competition.  To watch these teams play was worth every effort.

 

Under 10 Girls Group AB Soccer Domain Kluivert def. Long Island Rough Riders 1-0
Under 11 Girls Group AB Deep Run Charge def. DTS Feyenoord 1-0 PKS
Under 11 Girls Group CD South Jersey Select Green def. Long Island Rough Riders 2-0
Under 12 Girls Group AB Long Valley United Warriors & Match Fit Pre Super Y Select (co-Champions)
Under 12 Girls Group C/D JAGS Select def. Central Penn Alliance 3-2
Under 13 Girls Group AB Soccer Domain AJAX def. South Jersey Select 1-0
Under 13 Girls Group CD STA Real Crush Select def. DYS Twente 5-0
Under 14 Girls Group AB Soccer Domain PSV def. South Jersey 4-0
Under 15 Girls Group AB NJ Rangers def. Deep Run Strikers 4-2 PKS
Under 16 Girls Group AB Eastern NY def. SUSC AC Perugia 2-0
Under 17 Girls Group AB Central Jersey Hot Shots def. Ocean Elite 1-0
Under 19 Girls Group AB NJ Rangers Phoenix def. Clarkstown Gals 88 2-0
Under 10 Boys Group AB Wyoming SC def. Lehigh Valley Premier 2-0
Under 11 Boys Group AB Long Island Rough Riders def. Soccer Domain Van Basten 3-1
Under 12 Boys Group Olympic Match Fit Academy Rangers def. Bridgewater United 2-0
Under 12 Boys Group Premier Cosmopolitan U11 Select def. Hans Sloiz Real 3-1
Under 13 Boys Group AB Brooklyn Italian Azzurri def. LIJSL White 2-0
Under 14 Boys Group CD Massapequea ACES def. Montville Eagles 3-0 (forfeit)
Under 15 Boys  Group AB Parsippany United def. Jersey Knights 4-3 PKS

Photos from the tournament

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