Boca Splits Final Pair Of Regular Season
July 23, 2006
The Boca U23 men’s team split their two final regular season MSSL games on Sunday as they defeated the Winslow Soccer Club and lost to AC Perugia at Ft. Dix. Boca finishes in second place in the 2006 MSSL U23 men’s regular season standings and captures the second seed in the 2006 MSSL Championship Cup next Sunday.
Boca Splits Final Pair Of Regular Season
U23s finish regular season with one loss – capture second seed for MSSL Cup
FT. DIX, NJ (July 23, 2006) – The Jersey Shore Boca U23 men’s soccer team split their two final regular season Mid-Atlantic Summer Showcase League games on Sunday as they defeated the Winslow Soccer Club 2-1 and lost 2-0 to AC Perugia from Lancaster, PA at the Doughboy Loop Fields at Ft. Dix.
Boca finishes in second place in the 2006 MSSL U23 men’s regular season standings with a record of 10-1-1 and 31 points behind the NJ Rangers of Denville (11-1-0, 33 points) and captures the second seed in the 2006 MSSL Championship Cup next Sunday.
The NJ Rangers lost to Boca 3-1 on June 11 at the Manchester Soccer Complex for their only loss of the season.
In the first game on Sunday against Winslow, Cody Peters (Lakehurst) opened the scoring for Boca in the 8th minute when he took a one-touch feed from the left side about 12 yards out from Bucknell University sophomore Mark Schmiegel (Toms River).
Peters, who will begin his senior year at LaSalle University in September after transferring from Drew University earlier this year, collected the ball and buried his first goal of the season to the far post which was the only scoring by either team in the first half.
After a miscue by the Boca defenders the 75th minute which allowed Winslow to tie the score, Jay Mancuso (Toms River) tallied his team leading 11th goal of the season in stoppage time when Stevens Tech junior Versh Tivzenda (Marietta, GA) started a quick counter attack at midfield and played Mancuso a ball behind the Winslow defenders.
Mancuso, who played in 16 games at Central Connecticut State University last year, beat the Winslow keeper one-on-one to the near post to record his second game winner of the summer just before the game ended.
In the second match of the day with Boca resting several key players due to injuries and missing a few others due to personal commitments, Perugia scored the first goal from 25 yards out in the 35th minute which beat Boca keeper Jon Curry-Edwards (Spring Lake Heights) high and to the upper left for the only score of the first half.
Perugia made the score 2-0 in the final minute of the game with a quick counter attack and beat Curry-Edwards one-on-one as Boca was pushing everyone forward trying the get the equalizer.
The Boca U23 team will end their 2006 summer season next Sunday July 30th as they compete for the MSSL Championship Cup at the new John F. Patrick Sports Complex in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.
The 2006 MSSL Cup will feature the league’s top men’s and women’s teams based on their 2006 overall regular season records competing in a one-day tournament elimination format that will ultimately crown an overall men’s and women’s champion.
MSSL is a third year regional soccer league fostering high-level competition during the summer months at both the youth and adult ages in both men’s and women’s divisions in which Jersey Shore Boca is a founding member.
The adult level of MSSL is specifically designed for collegiate players under the age of twenty-three and is fully sanctioned by the USASA, the national governing body for adult amateur soccer.
The Jersey Shore Boca men’s summer soccer program is officially sponsored by Surf Taco, a popular Mexican themed restaurant chain with locations throughout the jersey shore.
Boca has been a fixture in the soccer community since 1978 and is one of the most respected soccer clubs on the East Coast.
The Club is celebrating their 28-year anniversary in 2006.
For more information about the Boca U23 team and all other the Jersey Shore Boca programs logon to the Club’s official web site at www.jerseyshoreboca.com
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