All in: Seabreeze, Flagler Palm Coast and Matanzas all have multiple teams in 7 vs. 7 summer soccer league

There are a total of 17 boys and girls teams from high schools in three counties competing in the league at the Indian Trails Sports Complex.

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Extra coaches had to be brought in.

Matanzas had four teams — two boys varsity, one girls varsity and a boys JV team — playing on opening night, June 6, of the summer high school 7 vs. 7 high school soccer league at the Indian Trails Sports Complex in Palm Coast. Seabreeze had two girls teams, playing on adjacent fields, and one boys team. Flagler Palm Coast also had multiple teams in action.

This year, the league has six boys varsity teams, seven girls teams and four boys JV teams from Flagler, Volusia and St. Johns counties competing, said FPC boys coach Ramtin Amiri, who helped start the summer league seven years ago.

"This is a good way for everyone to get touches on the ball with a smaller field," said Christine Goebel, who coached Seabreeze's Blue Crabs girls team.

The Blue Crabs defeated FPC's Side-Volley Sidekicks, a team made up of rising freshmen and sophomores. Campbell Meyer scored four goals in the Blue Crabs' 8-0 victory. Emily Barnes scored two goals. Kenzie Goebel and Gabby Dioquino added a goal apiece.

Playing on an adjacent field, FPC's Half-Volley Hotshots, defeated Seabreeze's other squad, the Crab Rangoons, 6-3. Incoming sophomore Zoe Almberg scored two goals for the Hotshots. Skyler Strickland, Taci Cook, Hailey Sammons and Isabella Kummernes each scored one goal.

Seabreeze tried to split its two girls teams evenly, Christine Goebel said. But a lot of the young players on the Blue Crabs team have experience playing together on club teams.

"Chemistry goes a long way. They know where each other is going to be," she said.

Amiri's varsity boys team defeated St. Augustine 7-3 with rising junior Jack Runnoe scoring four goals. River Rodriguez score two goals and goalie Teagan Paulo, venturing out of the box, scored a goal.

"This was our first opportunity to play together without our 10 seniors that graduated," Amiri said. "We were also missing some players, so we needed some guys to step up. Some of our younger guys stepped up,"

Seabreeze's boys edged one of the Matanzas teams 4-3 with Owen Applegarth and Rocco Dall'Oroto each scoring two goals for the winners.

The Matanzas girls team won its game.

The league will continue on Friday nights through June and then shift to Saturday mornings in July.       

 

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