By Randy Vogt, Director of Public Relations, Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association
June 22, 2018-A three-goal hat trick by Cheilis Rodriguez and an additional goal by Milena Ochoa paced the Brentwood Scorpions to their third consecutive Arch Cup championship. Brentwood defeated another Long Island Junior Soccer League (LIJSL) team, the Oceanside Thunderbolts, 4-0, to win the Girls-Under-15 Arch Cup Platinum championship game on June 9 at the Peter Collins Soccer Park in Plainview.
“The first half was equal and we scored just one goal in the first half,” Brentwood coach Hector Santos explained. “But we were able to put three goals by Oceanside, a very good team, in the second half.”
Brentwood’s Kimberly Gomez recorded the shutout in net.
Oceanside received the Rocco Amoroso Sportsmanship Award as determined by the game officials. The namesake of the award, who died in 2016, started the LIJSL Sportsmanship Program in 1980, it has since been copied around the world and he spoke about the benefits of Fair Play across the United States.
The Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) would like to thank our title sponsor, Arch Capital Group, which writes insurance and reinsurance on a worldwide basis through operations in the United States, Bermuda, Canada and Europe, with a focus on specialty lines.
With over 100,000 youth soccer players––both boys and girls––and more than 25,000 volunteers, the non-profit Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) stretches from Montauk Point, Long Island to the Canadian border. Members are affiliated with 11 leagues throughout the association, which covers the entire state of New York east of Route 81. ENYYSA exists to promote and enhance the game of soccer for children and teenagers between the ages of 5 and 19 years old, and to encourage the healthy development of youth players, coaches, referees and administrators. All levels of soccer are offered––from intramural, travel team and premier players as well as Children With Special Needs. No child who wants to play soccer is turned away. ENYYSA is a proud member of the United States Soccer Federation and United States Youth Soccer Association. For more information, please log onto http://www.enysoccer.com/, which receives nearly 300,000 hits annually from the growing soccer community.