ANNA MARIA – As the youth soccer season starts heading toward the playoffs and an October chill fills the air, team Moss Builders and team Cheesecake Cuties dominate the 8- to 10-year-old and 11- to 13-year-old leagues, respectively.
Both teams, with five wins, find themselves at the top of the ranks, with a two-game lead on their closest opponents.
Moss Builders shut out The Porch last Tuesday night, 6-0. The hat tricks by Parker Svoboda and Gunnar Maize showed the offensive dominance of the Moss team. Each teammate assisted each other in a goal.
The Moss offense kept The Porch goalie busy with six wonderful stops. For the victors, goalie duties went to Miles Moss, who stopped two shots, and Everett Hood, who had a single save in the game.
Capturing their second win of the season, Isola Bella Italian Eatery defeated the second-ranked Solid Rock Construction. The number three team now has a 2-2-2 record with the 5-2 win.
With four goals, Bailey Shenbaum got past the goal-keeping talents of Solid Rock’s Carson Long. Leo Tyler is credited with a solo goal for Isola Bella, along with Chandler LaPensee’s assist.
Long’s eight saves for the Solid Rock Construction squad helped keep his team in the game. Offensively, Matthew Darak shot and scored on two of his attempts.
Trinity Miller put three saves in the game stats for Isola Bella.
Still looking for the team’s first win, AMI Coconuts gridlocked 1-1 at the end of regulation play against team Adrian Griffin Interiors. The low-scoring game was not for the lack of shots taken against the opposing defenses.
Andre Harwood made eight nice stops for the Adrian Griffin Interiors team, while his counterpart, Evangeline Zupa, was moving and grooving, saving 13 shots in the game.
Goal scoring came courtesy of AMI Coconuts’ Beau Canup, while on the other side of the field, Joseph Caballero did the scoring for his team.
The La Creperie team, ranked fourth, had a bye week.
With playoffs starting in November, the matchups for the final games of the season are still up in the air.
SUN SCOREBOARD
OCT. 17
YOUTH SOCCER
WEEK 6 – 8- TO 10-YEAR-OLD LEAGUE
#1 Moss Builders (5-0-0) 6
#6 The Porch (1-3-1) 0
#3 Isola Bella Italian Eatery (2-2-2) 5
#2 Solid Rock Construction (3-2-0) 2
#5 Adrian Griffin Interiors (1-2-2) 1
#7 AMI Coconuts (0-3-2) 1
11- TO 13-YEAR-OLD LEAGUE
#3 HSH Design (2-4-1) 5
#4 The Gitt Team/KW on the Water (2-4-1) 4
#1 Cheesecake Cuties (5-0-2) 3
#2 Solid Rock Construction (3-4-0) 0
OCT. 19
ADULT CO-ED SOCCER WEEK 7
#5 Gulf Drive Café (4-1-1) 7
#7 Sandbar Seafood & Spirits (1-4-1) 0
#8 Slim’s Place (1-4-1) 6
#3 Ross Built Custom Homes (4-2-0) 2
#2 Gulfview Windows & Doors (2-4-0) 8
#6 Pool America (1-4-1) 6
#1 Moss Builders (6-0-0) 4
#4 Sato Real Estate (3-3-0) 1
