Information from Eric Cannon, Head Girl’s Soccer Coach:

Akins Girls Soccer travelled to Giddings this past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to the first annual Iron Horse Invitational Varsity Soccer Tournament.  The tournament was a round robin, five team tournament, with the winner decided by overall record.  Our squad won 3 out of four games decisively and tied the last game, matching records with the formidable Giddings squad.  Based on the tiebreaker rules we edged out Giddings based on goal differential and took home the trophy!  We scored 19 goals throughout the tournament and only allowed 2.

Our girls showed amazing resilience throughout the tournament and improved their skills and team chemistry throughout.  I will detail each games box score below but want to recognize each of our girls and invite you to congratulate them next week.  In addition to the trophy, several of our girls were awarded individual honors with first and second team all tournament recognitions.

• Goalkeeper- Yosmeli Martinez  1st Team All Tournament(3 clean sheet games (no goals allowed))
• Sweeper-Paola Medel 2nd Team All Tournament
• Left Back- Jennifer Lopez 1st Team All Tournament
• Right Back- Gabriela Garcia 2nd Team All Tournament (1 goal scored)
• Stopper- Jocelyn Cruz
• Left WIng- Yalitza Ibarra 1st Team All Tournament (1 goal scored, 6 assists)
• Left Center Mid- Marily Marin (1 goal scored)
• Right Center Mid- Flor Lopez 2nd Team All Tournament (1 goal scored)
• Right Wing- Deyfilia Mora
• Left Striker- Andrea Caceres 1st Team All Tournament (7 goals scored)
• Right Striker- Mya Sharp 1st Team All Tournament (7 goals scored)
• Bench-Valeria Marquez (1 goal scored), Maria Hernandez, Rosa Luna, Sofia Ramirez, Patty Guido, Ezzy Racelis, Itzel Moreno, Kennia Maldonado, Alyssa Alvarado)

Also I want to recognize our two captains who fell to injury last week but travelled with the team and have continued to lead; Bailey McGrath and Sammy Ramos.

Box scores are as follows:

•  Thursday 8 pm versus Smithville (5-0) Mya Sharp (2), Andrea Caceres (2), Marily Marin (1) Yosmeli Martinez (clean sheet)
•  Friday 8 pm versus Gateway Prep (4-0) Andrea Caceres (2), Mya Sharp (1), Gabriela Garcia (1) Yosmeli Martinez (clean sheet)
•  Saturday 9 am versus Beeville Jones (8-0) Mya Sharp (3, hat trick) Andrea Caceres (2), Valeria Marquez (1), Yalitza Ibarra (1), Flor Lopez (1) Yosmeli Martinez (clean sheet)
•  Saturday 1 pm versus Giddings (2-2) Mya Sharp (1), Andrea Caceres (1)

This is a huge win for our girls and the entire coaching staff is extremely proud of each one of them.