Palo Alto hosted an invitational tournament on a trial basis to determine participation interest level and learn a few lessons about hosting a tournament. David Mucciarone, our Spring Select Producer and coach of the U14B1 team, Palo Alto Raptors, took on the task to organize and manage a U14B weekend tournament. Many thanks to David for stepping up and trying this for our Palo Alto AYSO.
Great fun was had by all, and post tournament feedback has been really positive.
David wrote, "As much work as it was, it was worth all of the effort and my (team) parents were troopers and stepped up in many ways to help make this happen. Lee (Berg) was instrumental in getting refs motivated to sign up on mysoccerleague.com after I posted the games. We had 17 different refs handle our 10 games/30 slots. We fed them lunch and refreshments, and I'd have to say the officiating was very good, including the final which was physical and well controlled by the ref."
We don't know if this will lead to greater aspirations yet, but stay tuned. It seems David is fired up and with some additional volunteer help we could do this again next year, and extend it to more divisions as well.
Well done, David. And thanks to the supporting volunteers to organize fields and referees, and of course, to the referees themselves. And thanks to the visiting teams and their coaches for bringing some great soccer fun to our community.
- Gordon Short, Regional Commissioner, Palo Alto AYSO, Region 26 |
Palo Alto U14B Invitational Tournament
Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1, 2011
final (Sunday)
game # | time | field | referees | home (score) | visitor (score) | winner |
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10 | 2:00 p.m. | Terman #1 | Laurent Delamare Alan Black Fuad Abu Nofal | Raptors (2) | United FC (1) | Raptors |
teams
team | colors (jersey/shorts/socks) | win | loss | tie | goals for | goals against | points |
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Concord United FC | neon orange/black/black neon green/black/black | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 24 |
Los Altos Lightning | lemon/royal blue | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
Palo Alto Raptors | red/black/black white/black/white | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 27 |
PHMSA Fusion | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
PHMSA Clash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | |
San Jose Wave | navy/black | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 |
saturday games
game # | time | field | referees center line line | home (score/points) | visitor (score/points) | winner |
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1 | 9:00 a.m. | Terman #1 | Doug Azevedo Mark Lefebvre Eric Schaefer | Lightning (0/0) | Raptors (1/8) | Raptors |
2 | 10:15 a.m. | Terman #1 | Alistair Murray Mark Lefebvre Kent Smith | Wave (2/9) | Fusion (0/0) | Wave |
3 | 11:30 a.m. | Terman #1 | Scott Davidson Dylan Davidson Tuan Mai | Clash (0/0) | United FC (3/10) | United FC |
4 | 1:00 p.m. | Terman #1 | Scott Davidson Tuan Mai Dylan Davidson | Raptors (6/10) | Fusion (0/0) | Raptors |
5 | 2:15 p.m. | Terman #1 | Alistair Murray Eric Schaefer Matt Thompson | United FC (1/4) | Lightning (1/4) | ---tie--- |
6 | 3:30 p.m. | Terman #1 | Alistair Murray Doug Azevedo Dave Mucciarone | Clash (2/9) | Wave (0/0) | Clash |
sunday games
game # | time | field | referees center line line | home (score/points) | visitor (score/points) | winner |
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7 | 9:00 a.m. | Terman #1 | Raymond Wong Alistair Murray Eric Schaefer | Fusion (0/0) | Lightning (2/9) | Lightning |
8 | 10:15 a.m. | Terman #1 | Riegelhaupt-Herzig Eric Schaefer Bill Elerding | Raptors (2/9) | Clash (0/0) | Raptors |
9 | 11:30 a.m. | Terman #1 | Laurent Delamare Alan Black Riegelhaupt-Herzig | Wave (0/0) | United FC (6/10) | United FC |