The Oyster Bay East Norwich Soccer Club Kicked Off Their 1998 Fall Season on Saturday, September 12.

For the past 20 years, the Oyster Bay East Norwich (OBEN) Soccer Club has provided competitive soccer for the more serious, competitive soccer players through their travel program. Their intramural program is designed for the beginner player with interest in learning and competing in the sport of soccer.

Teams are formed in the various age groups that range from kindergarten to sixth grade in the intramural program. In the travel program, there are players that go beyond the sixth grade. Our oldest travel team is the Lightning which includes players that are 15-years of age.

Coaches volunteer their time to teach our players during practice which is once or twice a week. In addition, the club provides professional trainers to further develop soccer skills.

The OBEN fall soccer season is well under way for our five travel teams. Since the spring season ended, most teams participated in soccer camps and tournaments held throughout Long Island that were held during the summer.

Since the beginning of August, they have been preparing themselves for the fall season by practicing twice a week at Vernon School or Roosevelt Park with their coaches and professional trainers.

The teams play their home games at Vernon School against teams from Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Games are played on Saturdays and Sundays. Since we have five travel teams, if you are interested in watching them play, you are assured to catch a game on Saturday or Sunday as usually half the teams play home and the other half play away on alternate weeks. Please stop by and cheer our teams on and enjoy.

The following are our travel teams representing our town throughout Long Island and New York State:

The Lightning - Boys under the age of 15.

The Hawks - Players under the age of 14.

The Wildcats - Boys under the age of 12.

The Eagles - Boys under the age of 11.

The Tornadoes - Girls under the age of 11.

On Saturday, Sept. 12, the Intramural teams kicked off their fall season. The Intramural program is offered to boys and girls from kindergarten through sixth grade.

The children have been practicing their skills during many practice sessions with their coaches. The more determined also participated in a one week NOGA soccer camp offered by the club. On Saturday, they displayed their talents with the first soccer game of the season.

Some of the results follow for games played on Saturday, Sept. 12:

The kindergarten players competed in a soccer clinic supervised by our NOGA coaches.

Rough Riders beat the Green team 3 to 0. Roy Harrington was full of energy throughout the game, while Ryan was awesome for the Green team.

The Wolves beat the Mustangs 4 to 0. It was a very exciting game.

Sharks beat Flames 3 to 1. Evie Pierrepont scored two great goals while the defense was handled by Allison Klaverweiden for the Sharks. Emma Lind played great on goal while Jacqueline Del Rosso scored a fabulous goal for the Flames.

The Falcons and the Crusaders played to a 3 to 3 tie. April Fabbri and Ryan Rezelbach played great offense and goalie respectively. Rand Araskog and Austin Prey scored outstanding goals.

On Saturday, Sept. 19, the following results were turned in:

The Rough Riders beat the Lazers 5 to 0. Michael Weitzman was the player of the week for his great passing, good ball control and scoring for the Rough Riders. While David O. and Victoria Raffe displayed good team work.

The Wolves beat the Sharks 3 to 0. Kaitlin Lesko scored all three goals for the Wolves. While Nicolette Gotti was very aggressive for the Sharks.

The Falcons beat the Torpedoes 5 to 1. A. Brending scored 2 goals for the Falcons. While Michael Palczewski scored the only goal for the Torpedoes.

The Mustangs beat the Flames 5 to 0. Christina Echeverria was awesome for the Mustangs. While Kristen Falcone and Tara McWalters were outstanding for the Flames.

The Scorpions beat the Hawks 2 to 1. Zachary Hutchinson had dynamic goals for the Scorpions and Andrew Fakuri was fabulous in offense for the Hawks.

The Crusaders played to a 1 to 1 tie with the Rockies. Tim Haefele and J. Allen were great goalies.

TNT beat Falcons 2 to 1. Alex Trautwig and Tripp Gaudin were the players of the week for TNT for their efforts. While GianMarco Marassutti and Joseph Rocchi were great on offense for the Falcons.