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Sun Bowl finalists

By Staff | Jan 3, 2009

Special to the Breeze

The boys’ under-15 Island Coast Soccer Alliance team went 3-0-3 in the Sun Bowl College Showcase soccer tournament in Tampa, losing in the championship finals Tuesday to Brentwood (Tenn.) Premier 10-9 in a sudden death penalty kick shootout (11th round). The teams tied 1-1 in regulation time. In pool play, Island Coast defeated East Lake Premier 3-2, Players Club 6-0 and Hillsborough County United 4-1, and tied FC Madrid of Princeton (N.J.) 1-1 and tied Mockingbird Valley (Ky.) 2-2. In the semifinals against Mockingbird Valley, ICSA trailed 2-0 until a goal with 10 seconds remaining tied it at 2-2, then won a penalty kick shootout 5-4 to advance to the championship match. Team members in the photo, from left, are Jordan Taylor, Sean Tannassee, Shane Jones, Marco Nardiello, Yury Bykau, Eric Agostinelli, Nathan Stone, Kevin Hurley, Caio Amaral, Olivier Benedict, Santiago Villamil, Kevin Lopera, Juan Cano, Juan Valadez, Ron Lind, and head coach Aldo Nardiello.