The King Sportswear Adult Mixed Soccer club is shown moments after winning their division at the 6^th Annual Moncion’s Invitational Soccer Tournament sponsored by the Valley East Soccer Club. They had just edged out the other team in their division, Moncion’s, in an exciting shoot-out. Team members include, back row, from the left: Yvon Boudreau, Serge Daoust, Mike Thomas, Angela Thomas, Daniel Mathieu, Andre Bertrand, and Daryl Kretzschmar. The front row includes: Laurie Hoag, Mike Daoust, Denis Leduc, Anne Ross, Sylvia Kretzschmar and Melissa Cameron. Robin Auger is standing in the middle no-man’s land behind Laurie Hoag. Missing from the picture are team members Alyson Fleming, Marcel Gravelle and Carly Buckner.

During the tournament, the teams evenly split their games with a win a loss and tie each. In addition, they also scored the same number of goals so a shoot-out was necessary to determine the title.

“These teams are always close, even during the league plan,” commented Carole Blanchette, who has been President of the Association for the past four years. “They play every Wednesday night at 9 p.m. and each game ends up tied or one goal apart. It is really nice to see.”

From talking to the players, it seems as if Adult Soccer may actually take off in this area.

“There are so many soccer families in the Valley now,” commented Mike Mallet, co-ordinator of the tournament and a long-time Board member. “Some of the adults indicated that they would like to play, so we tried it last year and this year with success. A lot of the older kids are looking forward to continuing in the sport once they graduate from the 17 and under division. Because of this, we see adult soccer becoming even more popular in the future.”

Members of the other adult team, Moncion’s Your Independent Grocers, include: Mike Arkilander, Denis Lefebvre, Shawn Bellemore, Connie Boyd, Laurie Carbone, Corey Daalmeyer, Marcel Dubois, Noel Mejia, Gerry Paquette, Michel Paradis, Kim Radanovich, Tony Rossini, Ivon Trottier, Curtis Shiewck, Jason Angus, Cindy Angus and Christine Kraus.