SOCCER WORLD

Police arrested a 17-year-old Manalapan boy Tuesday for causing $24,800 in damage to a soccer field last year. Police found the teenager through On-Star records.

About 11:30 p.m. Nov. 21, the teen allegedly spun his 2007 GMC Denali, making “donuts” in St. Joseph’s Episcopal School in the 3300 block of South Seacrest Boulevard.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel is not releasing the teen’s name because his is a minor.

During the time the teen was spinning out, On-Star received a “collision notification.” The documents were turned over to police after a subpoena.

Police charged the teen with reckless driving and criminal mischief.

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On Tuesday, Chris Przemieniecki and the Golden Eagle soccer team announced that Justine Jones signed a letter of intent to play for UMC this season.Jones is a junior college transfer from Walla Walla Community College in Washington. At Walla Walla she was a team captain and scored 14 goals and tallied three assists in 2006.”She (Jones) brings experience at the college level and comes from a college program that has been both regionally and nationally ranked. Many good players have come out of the Walla Walla program,” Przemieniecki said. “Justine is a player that can step into our system and make an immediate difference. She will also bring a winning attitude to our program.”

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A rainbow leading to a pot of gold has yet to appear.With no sunlight for two days – a rain-filled St. Patrick’s Day Monday and a still-soaked Tuesday – the weather has been unlucky for the R-7 Metro Lead-Off Baseball Tournament and 10th annual Tiger/Bronco/Titan girls soccer invitational.The Metro Lead-Off tourney has been condensed into a regular eight-team tournament bracket scheduled for today and Thursday. Each team will play two games today (3:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.) and a single game on Thursday at 11 a.m. All games will remain at Legacy Park. .

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A 7-year-old boy has been recruited by a Liverpool, England, Premier League soccer club.

Aspiring goalkeeper Harry Yates, who was also scouted by English team Manchester United, met Wednesday with the club’s manager, David Moyes, to sign with the Everton Football Club, The Daily Mail reported.

The deal will put Yates on the same field as the first team to hone his soccer skills.

Phil Yates, the boy’s father and a former goalie, said his son has been passionate about the sport since he was old enough to kick.

“He has no other real hobbies — it really is his number one passion,” he said.

The boy was scouted while playing for his primary school and a junior team, The Vipers.

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CLEVELAND — Storm William bagged a hat trick to help secure a 4-0 win for the Flowery Branch girls soccer team on Tuesday night in Cleveland. William scored the game’s first three goals, while Delana Thomas added a fourth for the Lady Falcons (7-4, 4-0 Region 7-AAA). Tori McDowell kept the shutout in goal, making some key saves to help preserve a clean sheet. The Flowery Branch girls travel to West Forsyth at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. .

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Skyline High and its first-year boys soccer coach, Alan Jones, wanted to give fans around the state a chance to find out who really is king of the castle when it comes to prep soccer.

Accordingly, Jones helped organize the Skyline Champions Invitational, which features three of the four state champions from last season (Jordan of 5A, Bountiful of 4A and Waterford of 2A) and Skyline, in an effort to see which of the champs really is the best.

But as Jones pointed out after Jordan (3-0-1) and Bountiful (1-0-2) collided Tuesday afternoon in the inaugural invitational, so much for that idea.

Jordan, ranked No. 1 in 5A, and Bountiful, ranked No. 1 in 4A, actually put on a pretty good show despite playing on Skyline’s tiny soccer pitch, but in the end, the two titans of Utah prep soccer battled to an entertaining 3-3 draw.

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Tasmanian soccer officials says it would be a costly excersise to get a state team in the A-league competition.

Four business people have formed the Tasmanian Football Taskforce with the hope of getting a team in the League within three years.

Football Federation Tasmania supports the push.

But the chief executive, Martin Shaw, says it costs at least $5 million just to establish a team.

“Once a team is established for a season, the average A-league budget around now is about $7 million,” he said.

“So you’re looking at some sizeable money and as the League continues to grow over future years you are looking at a budget of $10 million or $12 million.”

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River Plate completed and won 3-2 on Wednesday the 13 minutes pending in the 4th round game against San Martin of San Juan of Argentina’s Closing soccer tournament.

River Plate is now only one point behind the leaders after winning this game that had been suspended from March 2 due to heavy rainfalls.

San Martin tried hard to tie the game since the beginning and was unable to coordinate in the middle field and made many bad long passes.

River only accomplished one attack but it was the closest any of the two teams got to scoring when Mauro Rosales turned around 180 degrees to kick the ball which was barely stopped.

With this victory, River has 12 points and is tied with Boca juniors for 3rd and 4th place in the tournament behind Velez and Estudiantes de La Plata, both leading with 13 points each.

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Bolivia president Evo Morales announced on Tuesday that his government plans a court case against soccer’s governing body for its ban of official matches held more than 2,750 meters above sea level.

According to news reaching here, Morales said he had asked the presidents of the Professional Football League and the Bolivia Football Federation to restart their campaign against the ruling by the International Association Football Federation (FIFA), which hits most of Bolivia.

He added that he had contacted the president of nearby Paraguay, Nicanor Duarte, to ask him to intervene after the Paraguayan Football Federation refused to let its team play a World Cup qualifier in La Paz, Bolivia’s administrative capital, which is above 3,600 meters.

On Monday, Morales and a team made up of Bolivian World Cup veterans, challenged an Argentine team led by soccer celebrity Diego Armando Maradona, at the Hernando Siles Stadium in La Paz, to show that altitude does not harm players.

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MAHOPAC – A Mahopac teen-ager faces a felony criminal mischief charge after driving a pickup truck onto a soccer field, damaging the field, then getting stuck in the mud, police said today.

Matthew Wood, 16, drove a Honda Ridgeline onto the airport soccer field off Hill Street last night, police said.

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