Only two tournaments into their winter season, the Yorkton United Football Club's Under 14 boys are off to a promising start to 2013/14.The Yorkton United Fury U14's enjoyed a successful soccer weekend at the Regina Breakaway tournament November 2-4 to start the season before following it up with another strong tournament in Saskatoon to put the United Fury in the ranks amongst the best U-14 clubs in the province to start the season.
In their first game of the season, the Fury finished with a 9-1 victory over the Regina's UCT Everton. In their opening fixture the Fury's offense shone throughout this game with Dami Ogunbiyi snapping up a hat trick and Kaleb Hove, Devon Revet and Nick Fetsch nodding two goals each in what was a strong team effort from Yorkton.
The second game against Regina AC Pumas continued the theme of the opener with the Fury taking home a 7-1 victory with more hat tricks from their attacking players.. Dami Ogunbiyi and Nick Fetsch both scored hat tricks with Kaleb Hove rounding out the scoring.
The challenger for the third game and a spot in the tournament final was the Regina Red Bulls and once again Fury prevailed with a 4-2 win to move onto the championship.
The final was a nail-biter though, with no victor after regular play and a 2-2 tie sending the game into extra time. One minute into the extra time, Nick Fetsch scored the winning goal to win the Regina Breakaway tournament title.
Carson Sveinbjornson was solid in net during the entire tournament. The boys took home the gold with a total team effort, headed by coach Steven Delong and assistant coach Glen Gelowitz.
The following weekend, the United Fury travelled to Saskatoon for the Lakewood Kickstart Tournament. The boys dominated in Pool A and ended up with first place after drawing Kindersley 3-3, beating Saskatoon Lakewood 3-2 and Saskatoon Aurora 6-3. The boys fired on all cylinders in their fourth game against Saskatoon Aurora Draco beating them 14-0. Carson Sveinbjornson had the clean sheet. The boys were unable to continue their quest for gold and instead settled for the silver medal against the Humbolt Hurricanes. The boys will see competition next when they play the Razz tournament in Regina December 6-8.
