Sunrise Wins Two Titles at Palm Bay

April 29, 2007 – Sunrise entered two girls teams in the 10th Annual Palm Bay Spring Challenge and both teams, the u14 (92/93) Select and the u10 (96/96) Sting, brought home championship trophies.

The U14 Select team, playing in the National division, went 3-0-1 during the course of the tournament. The team gave up an early goal to Titusville in the opener, and had to fight hard to get the equalizer in the closing minutes for the 1-1 tie. The team played well in the final two preliminary games, topping Vero Beach 5-0 and Satellite Beach 6-0.

The championship was against the East Orange Lady Knights. The Knights advanced with a 2-0 win over Satellite Beach, a 2-2 tie with Team Boca Red, and a 4-1 victory over Vero Beach.

Select won the championship by a 3-0 score. The title capped off a good year for the Select team. The girls also made it to the final of the Hackworth-Davis Cup, they won the Region A Cup (division II), made the finals of the FLUGSA playoffs and finished in first place during the FLUGSA regular season (division II).

The Sunrise Sting u10 team also won the championship. The girls played up one year in the u11 Continental division. In preliminary action, the Sting defeated Rockledge 5-0, First Coast 4-0 and Space Coast 4-0.

That put them team into the finals against the CFU Krush Blue. The Krush advanced with wins over Creeks Clash 3-1, the Storm 3-0 and a 0-0 tie with Palm Bay. Sunrise won the title game by a 2-0 score. For the tournament, Sunrise scored 15 goals and allowed zero. The shutout performance made the Sting the only girls’ team out of 80+ teams on the girls’ side not to allow a goal for the entire competition.