Youth flag football, adult sports in full swing

The stage is set for youth flag football at The Center of Anna Maria Island. In the 8- to 10-year-old league, the small gridiron this week will be the location of the match-up between Moss Builders and Beach Bums, as well as Shady Lady versus Cloud. Top seed Moss Builders was set to capture a seat in the championship game this past Tuesday night.

Root Logix, ranked first going into the playoffs, faces Ugly Grouper in the older youth flag football league, hoping to meet up with team Poppos or The Gitt Team in the final game of the season for the championship title.

Finishing game seven in both the adult co-ed flag football league and adult co-ed soccer league, Sato Real Estate and Burton Brick and Tile go into the playoffs, both with 5-0-2 records. Allied finishes the regular season with a 5-1-1 record to round out the top three teams.

In the four wins, goalkeeper Ryan Moss tops the night with 11 saves for Jiffy Lube in its loss against Sato Real Estate. Mark Rudacille was credited with eight saves in the night, contributing to his team’s win. Sato Real Estate’s Will Kretzmann and Damir Glavan each had single goals in the game.

Teammate Race Arande scored two points for the Sato team to finish the game with the score 4-1.

Burton Brick and Tile split the goalie duties between Jonathan Aragon with six saves and Chris Klotz with seven stops. The scoring for Burton was spread between Kris Yavalar, Klotz and Aragon with solo goals for each. Yavalar’s sister-in-law, Katie Christenson, also had a single goal against The Gitt Team keeper Neil Fellowes.

Zach Leib rounds out the scoring for Burton Brick and Tile with two goals of his own.

In the loss, Fellowes was recorded to have five goals, while the team’s goal scorers were Tanner Zellmar, Jamie Hutchinson and Will Romberger.

Slim’s Place could not find a win in the regular season with another loss against Blalock Walters. David Green and Hyun Kim each managed to get the soccer ball past Blalock goalie Kevin Mulcahy, who had seven saves in the game.

Five of Blalock’s team members put points on the board against Slim’s Place’s Mark Long, keeper for the team. Nick Bouchard and Nate Welch both scored single goals in the game.

Matt Staggs, Chris Scott and Kali Richardson all managed to get their foot on the soccer ball, each credited with two goals in the win against Slim’s Place, finishing the season with a 3-4-0 record.

In the first soccer game of the night, Allied solidly won against Servis First Bank, winning by five goals. The single goal for Servis was scored by Sean Gray.

Servis’ Andrew Sullivan and Nate Talucci worked as the team’s goalkeeper, battling the firepower of Zach Reda with four goals for Allied. Raul Loera and Cody Wright each had goals of their own to start the night of action at The Center.

The coming weeks will determine who will play in the championship games for the adults. Can Sato Real Estate win another adult soccer title? Will Allied capture their first Hayward Cup win? Or will an underdog take it all?