FRISCO, TEXAS - Santa Clara Sporting and West Side Metro Premier faced off on Friday afternoon at Pizza Hut Park playing for a berth in the U17 age group semifinals and it was the California side coming out on top with an emphatic 4-0 victory.

West Side Metro of Oregon had a golden opportunity to open the scoring in the first half as Luis Orendain-Holquin handled a cross in the box giving Metro a penalty. Taro Kyllonen would come up huge in goal for Sporting, however, saving Clark Phillips penalty low to his left side.

From there, the Californians stepped on the gas and took control of the game. Just five minutes after the penalty save, Gabriel Borges took the ball in midfield and scored a fantastic effort to put Sporting up 1-0. Borges was fantastic for Sporting the entire afternoon, and he had a big hand in their second.

Dribbling down the right side, Borges lofted a ball into the wind, playing it perfectly to land the ball right on the feet of Julian DelToro who made no mistake with his right foot to double the lead in the 37th minute.

It was 3-0 to Sporting just a few minutes later in the 42nd minute as Borges scored his second of the day. Edrey Valencia played a through ball misplayed by Yanphol Patino allowing Borges in on goal and his shot found the net.

From there, Sporting cruised to victory with Julian DelToro grabbing a late goal to make things 4-0. They’ll have a tough challenge in the semifinal on Saturday morning where they’ll face Brasilis FC of Brazil. On the other half of the international bracket, Tigres of Mexico will face LD Alajuelense of Costa Rica.

Santa Clara Sporting
GK: Taro Kyllonen
D: Luis Orendain-Holquin, Roberto Tenorio, Adam Ballard, Andre Alvarez
M: Carlos Gavino, Justin Bermudes, Gabriel Borges, Jesus Sanchez
F: Julian DelToro, Guillermo Talancon

West Side Metro Premier    
GK: Shamele Battan
D:  Jordan White, Eric Germundson, Trevor Houghton, Jordan Baeza
M:Jesse DeLeon, Clark Phillips, Austin Jacobson, Jaime Velasco
F: Enrique Esparza, Zachary Strair

FC Dallas Crashes Out of Dallas Cup to Tigres

It was a rude awakening for the first ever MLS Academy side to make the Dallas Cup Super Group Semifinals as FC Dallas were soundly beaten by Tigres of Mexico 4-0. Tigres took the lead in the first half from US U20 International Victor Garza’s fantastic right footed curling shot and held a 1-0 advantage at halftime.

FC Dallas would get hit multiple times on the counter in the second half including a 45 yard lob of the goalkeeper by Luis Castillo and lose 5-0 in a game featuring a whopping ten players who have spent time with a United States youth national team(Boyd Okwuono, Michael Ambrose, Jack Coleman, Moises Hernandez, Jonathon Top, Daniel Garcia, Jose Perez, Victor Garza, Emilio Orozco, Moises Orozco)

Friday Results

U13 Semifinals
Houstonians FC Red 2 Seleccion RCL Soccer 1
Nomads Academy 3 Solar SC 0

U14 Semifinals
FC Dallas Premier 3 Oklahoma FC 0
Fullerton Rangers 3 Andromeda SC White 0

U15 Semifinals
Solar SC 5 Eintracht Frankfurt 4
FC Dallas Premier 1 FC Golden State 0

U16 Quarterfinals
MTH PAC Tigres 3 FCB Escola 1
CD Chivas Guadalajara 5 Cosmos Academy West 4
PTSC Timber Wolves 4 Real Salt Lake 3
Estudiantes Tecos 4 Houston Dynamo 2

U 17 Quarterfinals
Brasilis FC 1 CFI Guadalajara 0
Tigres 1 Prepa Tec 0
LD Alajuelense 3 Solar Chelsea 1
Santa Clara Sporting 4 West Side Metro Premier 0

U19 Quarterfinals
Ajax Gunners 0 Davis Legacy 0
Knowsley Youth 8 Santos FC(USA) 3
CZ Elite 6 Dallas Texans Red 0
Solar Chelsea 2 Lewisham College 1

U19 Super Group Semifinals
Eintracht Frankfurt 2 Arsenal 0
Tigres 5 FC Dallas 0

Saturday Schedule

U13 Championship
Houstonians FC Red vs Nomads Academy 12PM

U14 Championship
FC Dallas Premier vs Fullerton Rangers 2PM

U15 Championship
Solar SC vs FC Dallas Premier

U16 Semifinals
MTH PAC Tigres vs Estudiantes Tecos
CD Chivas Guadalajara vs PTSC Timber Wolves

U17 Semifinals
Brasilis FC vs Santa Clara Sporting
LD Alajuelense vs Tigres

U19 Semifinals
Ajax Gunners vs Solar Chelsea
Knowsley Youth vs CZ Elite