The Pateadores GU99 team coached by Matt Swindle recently attended the Manchester City Americas Cup on Memorial Day weekend. The team's goal, to win acceptance into the summer Surf Cup. The team opened up group play by beating Del Mar Sharks 3-0, Arsenal West EGSL 3-1 and LVPSA ECNL 2-1. In the semi final match the Pats GU99 controlled the run of play and ultimately scored 2 late goals to win 2-0 against a tough MTN View Los Altos Monsoon. The championship game was a hard fought effort by the group but ultimately lost 2-0 to SD Surf ECNL. The GU99 will join Neil Powell's GU97 team at the Surf Cup this July.
The Pats G97 went 3-0 in pool play beating San Diego United, MVLA and San Diego EGSL. The team left its best performance of the weekend for the semi final game against highly ranked San Diego Surf ECNL, winning the hard fought game 4-2. The team ran out of gas in the final against LA Premier but this was enough for their summer Surf Cup berth.