Hello Breakers Blackwatch ..

This was an interesting week for sure .. we got tons of rain, we didn’t train at all, Conan is off the air & Coach Lance is in Ireland.
It was nice to finish off an interesting week with couple of victories on our way to State Cup .. so here we go:

2-0 win over Lightning – Black
Great game, we really controlled this game & the girls were really hungry for some soccer. I liked how relentless we were on defense & how creative we were on offense. This was our 2nd victory on a row against Lightning Black which plays AA-A.

3-2 win over PQ Premier – White
This was an awesome game. We took an early lead & we played aggressive the entire game. PQ is a very good team & they gave
us a nice battle. We should feel really good coming off this win, we just defeated a team that plays AAA (highest level for our age group) and they finished 4th in their bracket.

MANCE BUCHANON IS CLOSED ON MONDAY
As I suspected .. the park is closed so we wont have practice on monday. We’ll go tuesday, wednesday & thursday again at 6pm.
I’ll keep everyone posted of any changes in the event we get more rain. Please make sure to re-arrange your schedules to be at practice this week .. it’s our last week of training & could set the tone for this weekend.

STATE CUP
We are ready to go .. rain or shine, hail or meatballs. (btw, let the girls know I watched their highly recommended movie "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs", it was a classic).

- Saturday January 30 vs SD Surf White at 10:00am
- Sunday January 31 vs OC Premier at 9:00am
- Sunday January 31 vs Real California FC at 1pm (among top 10 in Coast League)

• top 2 teams in each bracket advance to 2nd round
• 6 additional wildcards will advance based on points
  Venue:
  Valley Lindo Park
  777 Aileen St – Camarillo CA 93010
  136 mi – about 2 hours 10 mins

For those of you driving up on Saturday morning. We will meet at Oceanside High School at 6:30am & we will leave together by 6:45am. Please be there on time so we can help each other carpool, etc.

See you all tuesday ..