Sitting in third place in the Regina Soccer Association U-12 Division table, it was a crucial weekend for Yorkton United Chelsea as they had two important wins this weekend hosting Regina's Boca Juniors and Regina's AC Pumas on Sunday at the Parkland Mall Field in an RSA Cup match and a league game to end the week.
With a chance at the second round of the league cup on the line, the game against the Boca Juniors saw Yorkton coming out powerfully and winning with a decisive 13-1 score, thrashing the Boca Juniors. Scoring for Yorkton were Nick Fetsch with five goals, Nolan Maier with a hat trick, Jordin Rusnack with two goals and Jaxon McLeod and Matthew Cochrane with one each.
Jairus Pellatt also scored a single off the head of a Regina player near the goal.
The Boca game was a must win because it was a first round playoff game for the Regina Soccer Association Cup, which is separate from the regular league standings.
League cups untie teams from all divisions of the RSA and the United did well to avoid losing the cup tie at home.
Yorkton will now move on to the second round of the RSA Cup this Monday, July 1st at Regina's Liebel Field where four teams play off for the right to play for the RSA Cup on July 14 in two Canada Day semifinals in the Queen City.
Sunday afternoon's game was a much closer game as Yorkton Chelsea met Regina AC Pumas for a 6-5 win in league play in what was a huge three points in the standings.
The last time these two teams met was at the beginning of the season with Yorkton winning 5-4, and Sunday's fixture was just as tightly contested between the two very evenly matched clubs.
With both teams having an even share of the ball, with the United keeping the ball for just a little longer in the match for 53 per cent posession in the match, the game was a back and forth affair with each team doing their even share of attacking and defending.
Scoring for Yorkton were Jordin Rusnack with two goals and four YUFC players came up with singles: Matthew Cochrane, Nolan Maier, Thomas Djagowez and Jaxon McLeod.
YUFC coach Michael Jakubiec was happy with how his young footballers performed in two games where they could get results in Yorkton, "The boys played very well as a team. There were a lot of unselfish decisions made by our boys and that resulted in two great results," closes Jakubiec.
