7/24/09 - The Premier Arena Soccer League (PASL-Premier) will commence its 12th Summer League postseason tournament on Saturday and will crown a champion Sunday. The Women’s bracket will also be interspersed throughout the schedule and both tournaments will be played in their entirety at Estadio Azteca Sports Arena in Sacramento.
Seven men’s teams and four women’s teams will comprise the respective brackets. Both brackets will be headlined by Santa Clara (Off The Wall Soccer Santa Clara), whose men’s (6-2, second place) and women’s (6-1-1, first place) teams are the returning champions.
The host teams, Estadio Azteca All-Stars men (6-2, first place) and women (6-2, second place) matched the Santa Clara teams almost goal for goal, except the Azteca women suffered their only two losses of the season to Santa Clara.
The PASL-Premier Summer League is similar to baseball’s Winter Leagues where you have a mix of minor league players continuing their development and professional players getting work in and playing for pride before their hometown fans.
From the Pacific Division, Santa Clara is led by former MISL Rookie of the Year and current Mexican National Futbol Rapido Team forward Vicente Figueroa, and USNAST players Nelson Santana and Jesus Molina. The Estadio Azteca All-Stars feature the USNAST’s Antonio Sutton and his Stockton Cougars teammates Leone, Pedro Lupercio, and Hugo Brambila.
The Turlock Express (4-2-2) are led by the Cougars Uriel Robledo and USNAST forward Aaron Susi. The Sacramento Scorpions are led by former Knights 2000 WISL Rookie of the Year Jorge Fernandez and Eric Harvey.
And in the Southwest Division, LMFR Baja Division Champion La Cabana (7-1) led by MNFR Teamers Eduardo Velez and Edgar Rivas, beat out the San Diego Fusion (6-2) and first-year Sequoia FC (6-2), who won their last five games including a 6-5 upset of the Fusion. The Fusion roster has several players who will take the field for the expansion San Diego Sockers when the PASL-Pro season starts in November.
The Fusion and Scorpions open the tournament at 9:00am Saturday. The first women’s game is at 10:30am. The women’s final will be Sunday at noon, followed by the men’s final at 1:00pm. For directions and ticket information go to http://www.estadioaztecasportsarena.com/.
| Day |
Date |
Time |
Home |
Division/Score |
Visitors |
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| Saturday |
July 25th |
9:00AM |
SD Fusion |
7-0 |
Scorpions |
Miguel Luna and Damian Quinn 2 goals each |
| Saturday |
July 25th |
9:45AM |
La Cabana |
6-3 |
Turlock |
Jose Caballero 3 goals and 1 assist, Oliver Jiminez 3 goals and 1 assist. |
| Saturday |
July 25th |
10:30AM |
Azteca |
W 1-2 |
Chico |
Jessica Parker 1 goal and Jordan Kramer 1 goal |
| Saturday |
July 25th |
11:15AM |
Heat |
W 3-2 |
OTW Santa Clara |
Jessica Macowitz, Mary Kate Fahy, and Tara Caldwall. all with 1 goal |
| Saturday |
July 25th |
12:00PM |
Estadio Azteca |
1-6 |
OTWSSC |
Suad Arnautovic 1 goal 1 assist |
| Saturday |
July 25th |
12:45PM |
SD Fusion |
5-0 |
Turlock |
Brian O’Connor 1 goal 2 assists, Kraig Chiles 2 goals 1 assist |
| Saturday |
July 25th |
1:30PM |
Heat |
W 2-3 |
Chico |
Chico- Danielle Jones 1 goal, Taylor Stahl 1 goal 1 assist, Tori Martin 1 goal. |
| Saturday |
July 25th |
2:15PM |
Azteca |
W 4-3 |
OTW Santa Clara |
Azteca- Monica Vasquez 1 goal, Nydia Ramos 1 goal, Falton Nicholas 1 goal, Becky Turner 1 goal. Defending women’s champs eliminated
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| Saturday |
July 25th |
3:00PM |
OTWSSC |
9-2 |
Sequoia |
Santa Clara- Suad Arnautovic 3 goals 1 assist, Vicente Figueroa 2 assists, Nelson Santana 2 goals 1 assist, Jose Bernabe 3 goals 1 assist.
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| Saturday |
July 25th |
3:45PM |
OTW Santa Clara |
W 3-3 |
Chico |
Santa Clara - Abby Kwait 2 goals; Chico- Jordan Kramer 2 goals |
| Saturday |
July 25th |
4:30PM |
Scorpions |
4-5 |
La Cabana |
La Cabana - Jose Caballero 2 goals; Sacramento - Jorge Fernandez 2 goals, 1 assist |
| Saturday |
July 25th |
5:15PM |
Azteca |
W 3-2 |
Heat |
Azteca- Monica Vasquez 1 goal, Jennifer Burroughs 1 goal, Nydia Ramos 1 goal.
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| Saturday |
July 25th |
6:00PM |
Estadio Azteca |
1-5 |
Sequoia |
Sequoia - Adam Artega 2 goals 1 assist, Noel Mendoza 2 goals. |
| Saturday |
July 25th |
6:45PM |
SD Fusion |
3-4 |
Estadio Azteca |
Estadio Azteca- Hugo Brambila 1 goal 1 assist, Pedro Lupercio 1 goal, Antonio Sutton 1 goal, Ato Leone 1 assist
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| Saturday |
July 25th |
7:30PM |
La Cabana |
9-3 |
Turlock |
La Cabana- Miguel Ortiz 3 goals, Edgar Rivas 2 assists, Manuel Ortiz 2 Goals 1 assist, Oliver Jiminez 1 goal 2 assists, Eduardo Velez 1 goal 1 assist.
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| Saturday |
July 25th |
8:15PM |
Sequoia FC |
2-3 |
Scorpions |
Sacramento - Jorge Fernandez goal, assists, GWG with 15 seconds remaining |
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| Sunday |
July 26th |
10:00AM |
OTWSSC |
7-3 |
Estadio Azteca |
Gonzalez 2 goals |
| Sunday |
July 26th |
11:00AM |
Scorpions |
2-7 |
La Cabana |
Miguel Ortiz 3 goals, Caballero 2 goals, assist |
| Sunday |
July 26th |
12:00PM |
Chico |
W 3-1 |
Azteca |
Jessica Parker 2 goals, GK Cielo Jiminez named tournament MVP |
| Sunday |
July 26th |
1:00PM |
OTWSSC |
8-4 |
La Cabana |
Suad Arnautovic with 4 goals, 1 assist, named Tournament MVP |
