The OBEN Lightning soccer travel team met the Long Beach Locos for the second time this season. In the first game, the Lightning eliminated the Locos from the Waldbaum cup by beating them 3 to 1. The second encounter came on Sunday, May 3, where the Locos had a fabulous first half scoring 3 goals to the Lightning 1. The second half was a great half for our team coming back with two goals and tied the score at 3. With a few minutes left in the game the Locos scored their fourth goal to win the game. Jeffrey Allen, Andres Orange and John Murphy scored for the Lightning.

The Tornadoes were hosted by the Kachinas in Floral Park on Saturday, May 2. The field condition was poor, puddles of water were scattered all over the field, but this was no excuse for our loss. During the first half, some of our players did not seem like the players we have been seeing during prior games. It appears that there were some sleep-overs the night before that the coach was not aware of. Keryn Mierdiercks had two great shots on goal in the first half. The first was a blasting high ball that just barely missed the upper right hand corner of the net. The second was a low shot that most spectators felt was a goal, however, the referee did not call it a goal. The referee and our coach were not in a position to call it nor to argue it properly. The Kachinas scored their first goal by taking a low shot uncontrollable by our goalie. The first half ended Kachinas 1, Tornadoes 0.

The second half was a physical one, several times the referee had to stop play due to injuries. Our goalie, Casey Leigh had a spectacular day, stopping some great shots taken by the Kachina's outstanding forwards. Alexandra Manfredi (our game captain), played superb in defense. Our goal came after the Kachina's second goal, it was a result of Keryn Meierdiercks pass to Elena Albanese who dribbled by a Kachina defender and taking a grounding shot past the Kachina's goalie. The loss brought the Tornadoes record to two winds and two losses.

Our intramural games were played on Sunday, May 3, at the Vernon School. The results follow:

Knights beat Sharks 7 to 6. Tara McWalters and Julie Albanese were superb throughout the game scoring several goals and saving many while they played goalies. The Sharks' Kristen Falcone and Lizzi Bellavia had a spectacular first day back to OBEN soccer.

Hurricanes and Barracudas. Megan Costello and Jacqueline Del Rosso were outstanding for the Hurricanes. Brittany Gauss and Annemarie Ahearn were superb for the Barracudas.

Falcons tie Pirates 2 to 2. Brian Jones was outstanding on goal for the Falcons. Joey Jazwinski played outstanding for the Pirates.

Sierra Eagles beat the Eagles 6 to 4. Alex Hudak scored three goals for a hat trick. Congratulations Alex! Teffery May had some fancy footwork dribbling around some of the Sierra Eagles.

Falcons A beat Falcons B 6 to 0. Alec Rubenstein scored two outstanding goals for the Falcons A team while Stephen Soucy had great defensive plays for the Falcons B team.

Sierra Eagles play Turfbusters (score undisclosed). Alex Gutterman displayed some good blocking for the Eagles. Evan Gordon had three goals and Ryan Lesko had one for the Turfbusters.

White Sharks beat Green Team 5 -2. Nicole Mancusco had two great goals for the Sharks. Brigitte Barrow had the goal of the year for the Green team.

Crusaders beat Hawks 4 to 2. The whole team deserves credit for this win for the Crusaders. The Hawks had David Craig and Matthew Cloninger score their great goals.

Scorpions win over TNT 3 - 2. Zachary Hutchinson scored all three goals for the scorpions for his first hat trick of the season. Congratulations! Kevin Crowley and Becky Kaplan scored one goal each for TNT.

Rockies beat the Falcons 4 - 2. Jason Cranmer put two of the four goals in the net for the Rockies. The Falcons' Gavin Pilling and Brett Lacorte displayed some great moves.

In the girls division game, The NoName beat Diamond Backs 2 to 1. Katie Baker and Sarah Robinson had a number of outstanding good plays in addition to scoring 2 terrific goals for the NoName. Ailsa Pierrepont and Marisa Vando scored the goal and also played some great defense for the Diamond Backs.

The Patriots beat the Flames 7 to 2. Bobby Stainkamp played great defense and Connor Sheehy scored two superb goals for the Patriots. For the Flames, Alex Ciric had an all around great game and Julien Firlterman was great on goal.

The games scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10 were canceled due to rain.

The club is having their annual dinner dance on Friday evening at the Sail Harbor. Thank you for all your interest and support.