The Sarnia Fury U14 Boys Soccer team recently competed in the Ontario Futsal Cup held at the Hoop Dome in Toronto.

The first game was against the Ottawa Wizards and the boys got out to a quick start. They led 3-0 on goals by Robert Carr and Michael Fazzalari (2). Unfortunately, Ottawa found the grove and netted 7 straight goals spanning the first and second halves before the boys could manage another goal. Scoring the third Sarnia goal was Alisdair Coy and the game ended in a 7-4 defeat.

In the second game, Sarnia took on the eventual tournament champions, Toronto RMC Uruguay. Once again, the boys started quickly with a 2-0 lead on goals by Alisdair Coy and Nathan Wilson. That seemed to give their opponents a wake-up call as Toronto cruised to a 12-2 victory over Sarnia.

The third game saw the boys play Stoney Creek Salfleet. Netminder Riley Taylor played strong in the first half keeping the opponents in check while Robert Carr scored to give Sarnia a 1-0 lead. In the second half, the boys started to really click. Joshua Lockwood netted 2 goals to increase the lead to 3-0. A couple late goals by Stoney Creek wasn’t enough as Sarnia got its first victory of the tournament 3-2.

The last game was against the Toronto Eagles and the boys were more inspired after having won their previous game. The play was hard and the boys stepped up and were only down 2-1 at half on a goal by Michael Fazzalari. Toronto proved too much to handle in the second half and went on to win 9-3. Scoring the last two Sarnia goals was Michael Fazzalari and Josh Lockwood.

The boys played awesome considering that they have never competed at this level of futsal before and represented the Sarnia Fury soccer club very well.

The team members were: Pablo Mendoza, Robert Carr, Alisdair Coy, Michael Fazzalari, Joshua Lockwood, Nathan Wilson, & Riley Taylor