Updates on State Cup

First of all I have to make a correction to my last post, I Should have known better than to trust WSYSA website without confirming the results. Jarad Brisbin's Snohomish United played their first game on Saturday against BFC and won 3-0. They also played Sun City yesterday and won 1-0. So they have pretty much locked up advancement to the knockout round and are playing Emerald City next week and will try to win their group.

The U17 Celtic team lost a close game to Emerald City 2-1. I spoke with the assistant coach of Emerald City (former Southridge and SU player Cam Mertens) and he told me the referee made two game changing decisions that both benefited Emerald City. The first was on a goal scored by an Emerald City player who was clearly in an offside position, but the goal was allowed. The second decision came when Celtic scored a goal off a loose ball in front of the keeper. The ref disallowed the goal because it was deemed that the keeper had possession at one point. So it was a tough result for Celtic although in the Tri-Cities we have become accustomed to not having a home field advantage in the refereeing department. Next up is a trip to the west side to play Crossfire. A win or possibly even a draw will be enough to see Celtic go through in this three team bracket.

The best result of the weekend had to be the U16 united team winning against PDL first divsion runner up Columbia Timbers. After stealing a result on the road last weekend United was faced with their toughest state cup challenge yet and were able to poke a ball home off a corner kick and hold on for a 1-0 win. The victory put united in the drivers seat where a win next weekend will give them first place in the group and an automatic berth to the quarter finals. A draw should be enough to get them into the knockout round, but a loss will bring the tiebreaker scenarios into play. They wrap up group play next week at Harbor FC.