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U18B SCC Breakers 88 Start Final Youth Season with Two Premier League Victories

U18 Santa Cruz County Breakers 88 Boys Select soccer team, winner of three State Championships, opened the 2006 California State Premier League season, the last this team of will play together, with two impressive victories beating their opponents by a total goal differential of 9-2. The Breakers beat the USA Seventeen 5-0 in the season opener. Although, the Seventeens had just returned from a highly touted trip to Portugal where they played top professional sides, Jose Gonzalez and the Breakers were unstoppable had on the day. Gonzalez had a stand out day with 3 goals and two assists. The other two goals were scored on headers by Erik Espinoza and Allen Hardison. The Breaker back four of Hardison, Reed Johnson, Josh Converse and Walker Linares were credited with limiting the Seventeens to only a few shots on goal.

The second match of the season saw Gonzalez score two of the teams four goals in a 4-2 victory over the DeAnza Blue, one of which was assisted by Ben Poser. Eric Espinoza and Manny Leos each scored a goal, both after spectacular defensive efforts to strip a DeAnza defender of the ball before beating the goal keeper from close range.

U17B Santa Cruz Breakers 88 Soccer Team Earn Spot in 2006 Super-Y League North American Finals
August 12, 2006 Fresno, CA

The U17 Boys Santa Cruz County Breakers 88 clinched the Pacific Northern California Division Championship of the nation-wide Super Y League by beating the U17B Cal Odyssey 1-0 in Fresno, CA. The lone goal of the match was scored by Erik Espinoza on assists by Marco Del Real and Jose Gonzalez. GK Jeremy Del Re notched the shutout in goal.

This victory assures the U17B Breakers 88 team a place in the 2006 Super-Y League North American Finals (organized by the United Soccer Leagues) in Tampa, Florida November 17-21. The tournament will draw 140 teams from the pinnacle of elite youth soccer in North America. The teams embody the top boys and girls from every region in the United States and Canada. Following the U20Boys Breaker team appearance earlier this summer this is the second team from the Breaker Soccer Club to gain a berth in this prestigious tournament.

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U17 SCC BREAKERS 88 BLUE WIN 3rd STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN FOUR YEARS!
May 7, 2006, Livermore, CA - Robertson Park

The U17 SCC Breakers 88 Blue Boys Select Soccer Team won the U17 CYSA-North State Championship this afternoon by beating the River City Thunder team from Sacramento 2-1. After 40 minutes of goalless soccer, Jose Gonzalez, a Breaker captain, put the Santa Cruz team on the board after receiving a pass from Manny Leos. Gonzalez collected the ball at the 20 yard line took one touch past a defender and unleashed a hard driven ball just inside the right post beating a River City Thunder keeper that had only given up 5 goals the entire tournament. Second half play was intense from one end to the other in a hotly contested second half until the 65th minute when Alberto Mata, another team captain, scored an unassisted goal after dribbling three players in the penalty box before pushing the ball past the on rushing keeper.

The River City team, one know for incredible comebacks during this years tournament scored 10 minutes from the end of the game to make the last 10 minutes extremely exciting. River City pushed forward and put the Breakers under great pressure but the Breakers held on to finish out the game 2-1 victors.

During the course of this State Championship, the U17 Breakers 88 Blue scored 31 goals and only allowed two goals under the watchful goalkeeping of Philip Bliss and Jeremy Delre. This is the third CYSA-North State Championship for this youth soccer team (the first two won as the SCC Bobcats). It will mark the fourth time in 5 years that this Santa Cruz team will travel to the Far West Regional US Youth Soccer Tournament (June 19-23 in Boise Idaho) to represent Northern California Youth Soccer Association. Winning that the Regional tournament in Boise, Idaho  would lead to a birth in the US Youth Soccer National Championship tournament.

This team is comprised of select youth soccer players from across the county of Santa Cruz.

U17B Santa Cruz Breakers 88 Soccer Team State Championship - Photo Album

     

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