The U14 Rolla Knights just finished competing in the Region 2 President’s Cup tournament in Wisconsin last week, going 2-1 and qualifying for the National President’s Cup Tournament July 17-19 in Raleigh, NC. Here’s some background on the team’s season.

We played our league games in SLYSA in St. Louis. We were in Division 4 and finished first with a record of 9 wins, 0 losses and 1 tie. We won the U14 Blue division of the Lou Fusz Strikers Midwest Cup Tournament in St. Louis with a record of 4-0. We won the Red Chili Division of the Salsa Tournament in Kansas City with a record of 4-0. We won the US Youth Soccer Region 2 President’s Cup tournament in Madison Wisconsin with a record of 2-1. We beat the Jr. Irish Soccer Club U14 boys from South Bend, IN 1-0, the Little Illini Soccer Club U14 boys from Champagne, IL 2-1 and lost to the Croatian Eagles Soccer Club U14 boys from Milwaukee, WI 3-2. Our overall record for the season is 19-1-1 and we have won each event we have entered so far.

Team members include: Dusty Allen (from Dixon), Matt Calvert, Lucas Cole, Brendan Cunningham, Ryan Cunningham, Lucas Day, Caleb Florence, Aaron Froehlich, Todd Hall, Logan Houf, Zach Huddleston, Michael Janke, Nathan Kramme, Sven Olberg, Gage Scurlock, Hunter Short, Connor Smith (from Camdenton)

Congratulations fellows! I expect we’ll see a number of these young men in the 2013 Southwest All-Star game