USC ladies: Powerhouse no more

Image hosted by Photobucket.com


RED CARD: Veterans get down and dirty during St Vincent - Hiroshi's 3-2 win over QC in the 38 above division last May 13 at the Sacred Heart School Jesuit field. The QC keeper was later ejected in the game.

Sun*Star photo by Allan Cuizon

BARELY two months ago, the University of San Carlos ladies were hailed the best in the lot after ruling the Aboitiz Women’s Open. Now they can’t nail even a single win.

Mulbachs FC handed the reigning Cebu champion a thorough 5-0 thumping in the Cebu Inter Club Invitational Tournament at the USC Technological Center.

Meanwhile, the semifinals of the Men’s Open will be at USC-TC, while the ladies will be at the Sacred Heart School Jesuit field.

“It’s tough, we’re back to square one,” USC coach Dexter Arrojado told Sun.Star Cebu at the sidelines, minutes after Cathy Ramos made it 4-0 in the 47th minute. “We have to rebuild and train new players.”

In the first half, Keith Shelly Canton scored in the 21st, before Halei Marmol and Leonor Satorre scored in the 24th and 29th for a 3-0 lead at the half.

“We lost everybody. This team only had less than a month to prepare for the tournament,” Arrojado said.

“Everybody” Arrojado referred to mentioned went to QCU, a team known then as USC Alumni whom they beat 2-1 in the Aboitiz finals just last March 19.

The USC team earlier lost to Cagayan Misamis Oriental Football Association, 2-0; Ormoc, 1-0; and Queen City United, 5-0.

Among them were Rhodora Toledo, Jan Salac, Ivy Bongcasan, and Marlou Solon who scored all but one of QCU’s 14 goals in their four wins in the tournament.

QCU leads the cast of semifinalists and will face Ormoc in the first game at 1:30, before Mulbachs takes on CMOFA in the next encounter.

On the other hand, Men’s top seed Hiroshi FC will face Ormoc, a team they beat 7-0 earlier, at 1:30 in USC TC while Queen City United takes on the Don Bosco Alumni FC which has been beefed up with the University of San Jose Recoletos alumni.

The week long tourney, organized by the Cebu Amateur Football Club, winds up tomorrow with the finals in the ladies, men’s and 38 above division at USC-TC.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mother Nature plays spoilsport

The heavy rains spoiled the debut of defending champions Don Bosco College yesterday, cutting short the match between DBC A(?) and Bright. Hopefully, it will be a sunny Sunday. P.S. It will be interesting to note, how DBC divided its teams for the U12.
Read more

The failed U23 experiment

THE only positive thing that we can take in that loss against Timor Leste was that the U23 squad looked good in blue. And Ebong, too. The Blue-Haired fanatic whose voice we all heard on TV was fantastic. The team? The result? To be perfectly blunt it was a scrappy game from a scrappy team that seemed to treat the SEAG as a vacation, or a chance to gain more Twitter followers. (Yey, I can tweet the team apology first!) Going into the match, almost every fan who paid attention knew that we needed to win. Unfortunately, it seemed the players were operating on a different mindset.
Read more

Fair Play: The Devil's Advocate and CFA vs. CAFC

(This is my Fair Play column for Sun.Star Cebu on Feb. 6) I GOT an interesting e-mail the other day about the consequences for teams that withdraw from PFF-organized national tournaments and its corresponding sanctions. I guess, it’s time to play Devil’s Advocate. For PFF-organized events, there are four types of withdrawals—after confirming participation but before grouping or scheduling takes place, after regional finals but before grouping in nationals, after the grouping in the nationals, and in the course of the national competition.
Read more