ANNA MARIA – The weather is heating up and so is the adult soccer action at The Center of Anna Maria Island. With one game left in the regular season to be played by each team this Thursday night, week eight action left three teams with five wins and team Pool America on top.
Pool America’s 4-2 win over Beach House Waterfront Restaurant earned the team its fifth win. The 5-1-2 record puts them one win over the Progressive Cabinetry.
Losing by two goals, the Beach House team put two points on the scoreboard with eluding strikes by James Rodrigues and Marco Ruiz. Their teammate and keeper Aaron Frech made 11 stops.
Cody Wright put a hat trick to his season statistics. Adding to Wright’s three goals, Brandon Rolland not only saved seven shots but he is also credited with a goal in the third game of the night.
Closing out the soccer action for the night, second-seed Progressive Cabinetry narrowly lost to the Diamond Turf squad. The loss placed the team solidly one win under the league’s leader.
Progressive Cabinetry’s goalie, Tyler Bekkerus, was kept busy by the Diamond Turf offense. Bekkerus had 12 nice saves, but the Progressive defense could not stop McKenna Ainger and Gerardo Urbiola Bolanos.
Bolanos had two goals to help his team earn the win, while Ainger is also credited with an assist.
The third team to end week eight with five wins was Salty Printing after winning against team Ross Built. In his usual place at goal, Charles “Tuna” McCracken is credited with 10 stops against the shooting of the Ross Built Custom Home squad.
Only the foot of Ted Hurst could get by the Salty Printing defense and past McCracken.
The Ross Built team fought and held Salty Printing to just three goals. Goalie Tim Holly made 12 saves and earned himself a yellow card.
Nate Talucci took his place in the goal for a short time while Holly sat out. Talucci earned another veteran stripe with a save, helping to keep his team in the battle.
Scoring for the Salty squad were Kevin Roman with a solo goal and Tyler Brewer hitting two.
With Mark Long in the goal for the Solid Rock team, Sato Real Estate’s Damir Glavan started the scoring in the first half of play. Teammates Zacharieah Anabtawi and Alex Landy added three points to the scoreboard for the win.
Landy shot for two points as the Sato Real Estate offense moved the soccer ball smoothly down the field.
Long’s counterpart, Paul Jennison for the Sato team had nine saves in the game, besting Long by one.
Holding a place in the middle of the pack, team Sato Real Estate should see the playoffs. Their 4-4-0 record is not as strong as the squad would like, but nice wins come at the best times in the season.
With three teams earning only two wins going into the final regular season game, Solid Rock Construction can work itself off the bottom of the rankings before going into the post-season action.
The last regularly scheduled games will be played on Thursday, May 23. The spring adult flag football season playoff bracket with 10 teams, as opposed to the usual eight, makes it so that the old league adage of “everyone makes the playoffs” is not true this season.
The outcome of the five games of this week’s action is crucial to decide which eight teams will move on to the quarter-final round of the playoffs.
The last teams in the four seeds will play two head-to-head games, resulting in the eighth and final playoff position. These games will be played on Wednesday, May 29. The playoffs start next Thursday night.
At the end of the single-elimination playoff games, the championship title will be earned on Thursday, June 13.
SUN SCOREBOARD
MAY 14 – YOUTH SOCCER – WEEK 7
8- TO 10-YEAR-OLD LEAGUE
The Intuitive Foundation (6-1-0) 10
Shady Lady Horticultural Services (1-6-0) 3
Isola Bella Italian Eatery (2-1-4) 3
Emily Moss Design (1-5-1) 0
AMI Coconuts (3-3-1) 3
Solid Rock Construction (4-1-2) 0
11- TO 14-YEAR-OLD LEAGUE – WEEK 4
HSH Design (2-2-0) 2
Westfall’s Lawn Care & Pest Control (0-4-0) 1
Moss Builders (4-0-0) 2
The Gitt Team – KW on the Water (2-1-1) 1
MAY 16
ADULT CO-ED SOCCER – WEEK 8
Sato Real Estate (4-4-0) 4
Solid Rock Construction (1-4-3) 2
Salty Printing (5-3-0) 3
Ross Built Custom Homes (4-2-2) 1
Pool America (5-1-2) 4
Beach House Waterfront Restaurant (2-6-0) 2
Moss Builders (3-3-2) 2
Language Services Association (2-3-3) 2
Diamond Turf (2-5-1) 4
Progressive Cabinetry (5-2-1) 3
