Lopsided victories in girls U16

Kanoa Football Club’s Sophia Quintos, right, stays close to Matansa FC’s Jannah Casarino during the first half of their girls U16 division game in the 2019 NMIFA Fall Youth League last Saturday at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)

Kanoa Football Club, TanHoldings FC, and Southern United FC waltzed past their respective opponents in the girls U16 division of the 2019 NMIFA Fall Youth League last Saturday at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville.

TanHoldings posted the widest winning margin in Week 2 of the competition after dominating MP United, 14-1, to remain unbeaten.

An early goal from Allyssya Mae Angeles right in the first minute of the game triggered the rout. Angeles went on to hit three more goals, scoring in the 48th, 54th, and 56th minute.

Rizza Relucio also drilled four goals in the lopsided victory, as she found the back of the net in the 19th, 23rd, 36th, and 48th minute. Jenny Ann Capayas and Andrei Kaithlynn Chavez chipped in two goals each with the former making her pair in the second half (62nd and 66th minute) and the latter in the first (25th and 30th). Maru Joy Aniana rounded out the scorers for TanHoldings after hitting the board in the 49th minute, while MP United’s lone goal came from Audrey Castro in the 74th.

In other results, Kanoa also got win No. 2 after whipping Matansa FC, 11-4.

Matansa drew first blood courtesy of Jannah Casarino’s breakaway in the second minute, but it was all Kanoa after that, as Sharmaine Francisco, Paulynn Joyce, and Abigail Decena teamed up in powering their team to the easy victory.

Joyce came off the bench and delivered five goals, scoring in the 27th, 30th, 33rd, 51st, and 66th minute. Francisco found her target in the 4th, 10th, 15th, and 65th minute, while Decena delivered in the 17th and 29th. Casarino registered all of Matansa’s goals, as she had her last three in the second half (48th, 66th, and 68th minute).

For the final game in the division, Southern United coasted past Shirley’s FC, 9-0, to bounce back from its opening week loss to TanHoldings. Shirley’s absorbed its second defeat in as many games.

Mariana Castro paced Southern United with her three goals (fifth, 48th, and 67th minute), while Marinel Joy Falalimpa and Erin Frink added two apiece, and Keisha Deleon Guerrero and Nathanette Blas registered one each. Frink scored in the 16th and 22nd minute, while Falalimpa had her pair in the 25th and 45th, and Deleon Guerrero and Blas lit up the board in the 58th and 23rd minute, respectively.

BOYS U15MP United 3, Matansa 2
In the lone boys U15 match last Saturday, MP United edged Matansa.

Andrew Chung recorded all three goals for MP United with the dagger logged in the 70th minute, just four minutes after Jack Paul Lizama equalized for Matansa. Chung’s two other goals were delivered in the 50th and 51st minute, while Matansa nailed the first goal in the match, courtesy of John Edward Fabia’s conversion in the 32 1st minute.

The Kanoa-TanHoldings tiff was the other game scheduled in Week 2, but was reset as both teams had several players who were off-island and represented the CNMI to the Group G Asian Football Confederation U16 Championship 2020 Qualifiers in Jakarta, Indonesia.