Soccer Awards Banquet

We finally brought our season to an end last night as we held our season ending awards banquet. We couldn't have pulled it off without the help of Cindy Gallagher. Thank you Cindy. Also last night we said goodbye to our freshman coach, Ben Henry. Ben has done a tremendous job of getting the boys ready for J.V. and varsity. Good luck in Chicago Ben. Coach Gene thanked everyone for a tremendous year and shared some of the highlights of the year including: - scoring a season high 89 goals - 19 game winning streak - 25 game unbeaten streak - back to back C0-Palomar league championship. - # 11 Ranking in the State & # 28 in the Country according to ESPN Rise - New Team Record for wins in a season with 24 Gene also passed out individual awards for the following: - Team M.V.P. - Evan Myers - Defensive M.V.P. - Sean Gallagher - Offensive M.V.P. - Eric Budniewski - Coaches Award - Kevin Meyer - Most Improved - Ben Faller - M.V.P. of Coronado Invitational Tournament- Eric Budniewski - Co-M.V.P.'s of San Diego Holiday Tournament - Eric Budniewski & Darien Naraghi - Pursuing victory with honor award - Sean Gallagher Gene also said goodbye to our seniors including: Alejandro Berry, Chris Blelloch, Nick Custis, Luke Flud, Alex Inman, Zach Lentz, Zach McDonnell, Jeff Meyer, Kevin Meyer, Evan Myers, Darien Naraghi, Eric Thimes & Heber Torres. It sure was a fun year for all of us.

Congratulations - Awards

The post season awards keep coming in for our boys. Here are some of the awards:

Individual Awards:
- Palomar League Soccer Player of the Year - Evan Myers
- North County Soccer Player of the Year- Evan Myers
- North County Coach of the year: Gene Morris
- 1st team All-CIF San Diego Section Team - Eric Budniewski & Evan Myers
- 2nd team All-CIF San Diego Section Team - Zach McDonnell
- 1st team All North County Soccer Team - Eric Budniewski, Evan Myers & Zach McDonnell
- 1st team All Palomar League - Eric Budniewski, Evan Myers & Zach McDonnell
- 2nd team All Palomar League - Kevin Meyer & Ben Faller
- Honorable Mention Palomar League- Sean Gallagher, Nick Custis & Zach Lentz
- San Diego Union Tribune All-Academic Team: Alejandro Berry, Chris Blelloch, Philip Bru, Eric
Budniewski, Nick Custis, Michael Dilley, Ben Faller, Sean Gallagher, Kyle Hess, Alex Inman,
Zach Lentz, Zach McDonnell, Jeff Meyer, Kevin Meyer, Sean Murray, Evan Myers, Darien
Naraghi, Carlos Rodriguez & Eric Thimes

Team rankings:
- Ranked # 2 in San Diego County per North County Times - 3/8/2011
- Ranked # 10 in the Country by National Soccer Coaches Association of America - 2/22/11
- Ranked # 11 in the State per ESPN Rise - 3/21/2011
- Ranked # 28 in the Country per ESPN Rise - 3/22/2011

Torrey Pines (Semi-Finals Div 1) game update 3-01-2011

We picked a bad time to lose our 1st home game of the year. The old saying that it's hard to beat the same team three times in a year was so true tonight. The game started very positive for us as Eric Budniewski's free kick sailed into the box where Darien Naraghi sent a great header over to Ben Faller and Ben was able to send another header by the Falcon goaltender for a 1-0 lead. Torrey Pines came back and scored two quick goals to take a 2-1 lead. We were able to tie it late in the half when Eric Budniewski scored on a indirect free kick from inside the penalty area. The half ended @ 2-2.

Torrey Pines came out strong in the 2nd half and their pressure on us finally paid off when they scored two quick goals to take a 4-2 lead. We did make it close late in the game when Eric Budniewski made a rush into the Torrey Pines zone and was tripped inside the penalty area and we were awarded a penalty kick. Evan Myers then stepped up and blistered a shot past the Falcons goaltender to pull us within a goal at 4-3. We kept the pressure on but Torrey came back and restored the lead to two and made that hold up for the final score 5-3.

You can tell we missed our star defender, Sean Gallagher. We had only allowed more than 2 goals in a game once this year before tonight. I believe it would have been a different outcome if Sean had played.

What a ride it's been for us this year. With only Four returning starters from last years team we were not expected to have a good year. Did this team show us otherwise. This years highlights:

- Champions of the Coronado Invitational Tournament
- Champions of the San Diego High Holiday Tournament
- Co-Champions of the Palomar League
- Team record 24 victories
- Team record 19 wins in a row
- Team record 23 game unbeaten streak
- Ranked in the top 5 of the state since Jan. 1st
- Eric Budniewski # 1 point scorer in San Diego County - Large Schools (19 goals, 22 assists)
- Evan Myers # 2 point scorer in San Diego County - Large Schools (26 goals, 5 assists)
- Evan Myers named Palomar Player of the Year
- Eric Budniewski named ESPN Rise player of the week (Jan. 5th, 2011)
- Ranked in the top 10 in the Nation from January - March.
- Ranked # 2 in the nation (Feb. 14th, 2011)

On another note, our record with 3 of the 4 remaining teams left in the Div.1 & 11 playoffs this year was 6-1, that is amazing. What a year we have had. Thank you to all the boys and to all our fans for supporting us this year. This will be hard to top next year but if anyone can make it happen it's Coach Morris.