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Brasilia Beat Region II Champs in MRL!

Posted by Team Chicago Soccer Club on Sep 24 2014 at 03:00PM PDT in 2014-2015

Team Chicago Academy-Brasilia continued its U16 MRL Premier I Division play this past weekend with two impressive victories in Grand Rapids, MI. Entering the weekend both opponents were undefeated and positioned at the top of the group.

On Saturday Brasilia faced TNT Dynamite and started off on a great note when Jasmine Ruiz nearly scored right off the kick-off. The GK was positioned well off her line and Jasmine took full advantage of her ability to strike a ball, just missing the upper 90. As the match continued Brasilia was in great form controlling the match and creating opportunities that finally paid off when Jasmine Ruiz played a great ball into Safia Hannin on the left side. Safia drove past two defenders going across the top of the box before slotting her ball to the lower left corner for a perfect finish. The second goal which proved to be the game winner started with Abby Severson playing a quick throw-in to Dominique Martinez. Dominique continued to switch the point of attack and found Abby Grzetic about 25 yards from goal. Abby made a great fist touch setting herself up before unleashing a perfect strike that found the upper 90. TNT scored against the run of play, but Brasilia was too strong and secured a deserved 2-1 win.

In Sunday’s game, Brasilia faced Alliance Academy who advanced to Nationals as the Region II champions this past summer. The game started off with possession primarily in the middle third of the field with each team searching for opportunities. Alliance opened the scoring in the first half to go up 1-0, but from there Brasilia turned it up a notch to go into the half up 3-1. The first goal came off a corner taken by Jasmine Ruiz that was driven near post. MaKenna Schoolman’s run to the near post opened up space, and she dummied the ball through for Emmerson Fuller to beat the keeper.

The game continued to be a great match going back and forth, but the second Brasilia goal proved to be a turning point in the match. The play started with a ball being played out wide on the left side to Jade Eriksen-Russo. Jade played a long diagonal ball into MaKenna Schoolman who was able to flick the ball into the run of a wide open Veda Tappin. Veda timed her run perfectly to stay onside and drove toward the goal to place her shot calmly past a keeper to the lower left corner. The final goal of the half came from Jasmine Ruiz winning the ball in the midfield and directing it to Alyssa Bombacino (Cruzeiro) who took care of the rest in providing the game-winner. Alyssa drove forward into space beating the back-line before placing her shot past the keeper.

Brasilia began the second half where it left off and continued to find openings in the opponents defensive third of the field. The final goal came when Maddie Lambert got the ball deep on the right flank. She cut inside and passed it to Alyssa Bombacino who found Jordan King (Cruzeiro) on top of the 18. Jordan was very composed on the ball and cut two players on the top of the box before beating the keeper to go up 4-1. However, the game was far from over with such a great opponent and they continued to fight back, but could only secure one more goal for the final 4-2 result. What a great way to end the weekend beating the Region II Champions. We would like to recognize the efforts of Madison Lockard, Nicole Mondi, Jade Eriksen-Russo, Emmerson Fuller, and Callie Vitro for defending as a unit against some very talented teams. Great job girls!

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