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PFC U11 boys record second win of season
O’Meara recovering from ankle injury

By Marco Smits
The Review-Mirror
July 31 2008

The Portland Football Club’s U11 Boys played back to back games last week.
PFC travelled to Picton on Thursday night to play the Prince Edward County
Eagles. The boys came out to play and recorded their second win of the season.
Ethan Seed scored on a great pass from Gabe Leggett. Seed also assisted on Michael Anson's goal. The Eagles squeezed in a goal but Jeffrey Ray scored the final marker in Portland’s 3-1 victory.
Earlier in the week PFC had lost 4-1 to Kingston United with Ethan Seed scoring the lone goal for Portland.
For 45 minutes, the U14 girls of head coach Scott Halladay kept the pace with Quinte West in Portland on Monday, but in the second half the visitors ran away with a victory. Quinte West beat the Sweden bound PFC team 4-0.
On Saturday, the U14 girls played a knock out game in the race for the East Region Soccer league Shield.
The U14 girls were up 2-1 with less than 10 minutes to go before Kingston United scored the equalizer. There was no extra time and it took eight players before the shoot out was settled in Kingston’s favour.
“Winning would have been a sensation, but just to know we can play with them is satisfactory as well. They are one of the top teams in the league,” said coach Halladay.
The U14 girls have four games left this season, three of them at home.

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Mike O’Meara of the U18 boys is recovering from an ankle injury sustained in a PFC game several weeks ago.
At first, O’Meara, who qualified for the all-Ontario track and field championships as a runner of the 4x400m Rideaus District High School relay team this spring, feared for a broken ankle, but the injury was later diagnosed as a sprain.
The U18 boys lost to Kingston last week. On Tuesday United beat PFC 3-0.

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The U14 PFC girls team will host a ‘celebrity” soccer game at Kin Park on Sunday, August 10. The girls will take on a team made up of local politicians and business people in an effort to raise funds for their trip to the Dalecarlia Cup in Borlange, Sweden in 2010. Kick off is at 3 p.m.
Waving banners and signs while cheering and kicking soccer balls, the U14 girls also took first in their category in the Delta Fair parade. At the fair the team scooped ice cream and held a pie auction.