The Hellenic United Athletic Club (HUAC) Men's Over 30 team represented the I.S.S.A. in the USASA Midwest Region Tournament of Champions in FT. Wayne, Indiana this past weekend (8/6/11 & 8/7/11). The team brought home the Champions trophy for Over 30 Division - adding to their list of hardware for the season - by beating last year's Tournament of Champions winner FC Romania from Illinois with the score of 5-0.
TOURNAMENT STATISTICS
Following report is courtesy of USASA Midwest Region Website.
The heat and humidity seemed to be turned up a notch on Saturday during the Tournament of Champions opening games of play. The clouds above played games with tournament officials, keeping them guessing as to whether to expect a rain-out or not.... in the end, all was well and all games got off without a hitch in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Once the games were over, the heavens opened up to torrential rains but seemed to subside an hour later.
NOTE: The teams listed below are prefaced by the states they come from. While most are standard abbreviations used by the US Postal Service, there are a couple that need explanation: for instance, ON is Ohio North and SO is Southern Ohio.
At 9:45, the next set of games began with Men 030 IL Romania upsetting IN BRSC 3-0. MI Carpathia Kickers won 3-0 over IL Hellenic in another forfeit win when Hellenic did not show. IN Ft. Wayne Sports Club lost to KY Louisville 0-2.
In the Men's 030 bracket, IN Ft. Wayne lost 0-3 to IL Hellenic while IL Romania and MI Carpathia Kickers played to a 0-0 tie. (KY) Louisville SA was a no show in the 2:15 game, giving IN BRSC an uncontested forfeit win 3-0,
In the Men's 030 division, KY Louisville SA and IL Hellenic FC tied 1-1 while IL Romania won 1-0 over IN Ft. Wayne Sports Club.
In Sunday's Semi-Finals and Final games the following match-ups were:
10:00am on Field #1
Penalty Kicks from the Mark to determine who advances to Finals
MI Carpathia Kickers (1) vs IL Romania (4)
10:45 am on Field #2
Men O30
IN BRSC (3) vs IN Ft. Wayne SC (1)
10:45 am Field #3
Men 030
KY Louisville (2) vs (MI) Carpathia Kickers (2)
11:00 am Field #1
Men 030 Final
IL Hellenic (5) vs IL Romania (0)
2011 Tournament Of Champions Men's Over 30 Champions Roster: Tom Zec, PJ Klacko, Ryan Decker, Ed Lukin, Gus Vellios, Luis Flores, Yannie Moraitis, Dave Hoeper, Alex Javaras, Mike Milazzo, Andreas Papakostas, Terry Cirbo.
