Sonoma County Alliance Soccer Club - SCA 93 Boys WIN ALL-SCA 6 V 6 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

The Sonoma County Alliance 93 Boys split their roster in half for the 10th Annual Puma-Seawolf Cup Six-A-Side Soccer Tournament at Sonoma State University on Saturday July 7th. In the end they were reunited in the best way. SCA 93’s No. 1 team played its way into the championship game by beating the previously unbeaten SCA 93’s No. 2 squad 5-2 in the final round of the round robin event. Then SCA No. 1 tallied the first five goals in the title game before settling for a 6-3 victory. The winners was awarded the first-place trophy and given free tournament T-shirts, but players from both teams went home with individual medals.
Carlos Valencia scored three second-half goals to ruin goalie Tyler Butke’s bid for a shutout in the championship encounter against the short-handed SCA No. 2 team. It was playing without its leading scorer, Hugo Zuniga, after he scored eight goals in his first four games on Saturday before suffering a leg injury. At one point, the SCA No. 2 team was out of substitutes temporarily so Taylor Ramos, the captain of the No. 1 team, switched jerseys in the first half and played for the No. 2 team. Austin Kois netted two goals in the all-SCA final and four of his teammates also scored – Chris Hennen, Lupe Centeno, Benjamin Tarango, and Michael Gotham. Easton Palmer, goalkeeper for the SCA No. 2 team, kept the score respectable with several difficult saves. Kois scored perhaps the biggest goal of the tournament for the SCA No. 1 team, the game-winner from midfield in the second game of the round robin format. The No. 1 team had lost a late lead and settled for a 4-4 tie with Ballistic United from Pleasanton in their first game and were trailing by two goals, 3-1 to the Burlingame Arsenal, in the second half when Tarango, Ramos and Kois scored to rally SCA No. 1 to a 4-3 win. Meanwhile, SCA’s No. 2 team was steamrolling toward a championship showdown. Zuniga, team captain Brian Clementino and Eli Munger all tallied twice in a 6-1 tournament opening win over the Mavericks. The SCA No. 2 team didn’t trail in a game until it met the SCA No. 1 team. J.P. Prince broke a scoreless tie late in the first 15-minute half helping the SCA No. 1 team win the game it had to win to make the championship game at the expense of the SCA No. 2 team. Blake Davis scored three consecutive goals at one point for the SCA No. 2 team while, led by Ramos’ six goals, every player (non-goalie) on the SCA No. 1 team roster scored in the one-day tournament. In addition, both teams played and won without SCA 93B’s co-coaches, Ben Zeimer and Ian Mork, who were coaching the Sonoma County Sol in a National Premier Soccer League game in Salinas.