Bryant United U-14 team members include, front from left, Mark Johnson, Darius Stokes, David Powery, Edgar Alonzo, Garrett Rich, Austin Vail, Cory Laisure, Callie Marie Shalk; second row, Blake Reed, Evan Caddy, JT Dudderar, Bryce Denker, Slade Lewis, Bryan Oldham, Rori Whittaker, Chance Levinson, Wayne Hawkins. Coaches Randy Whittaker, Kevin Johnson and Eric Meyers [more]
The Bryant United U-14 boys traveled to Shreveport La., this weekend and captured the championship. First sweeping their pool with wins over host team Shreveport 6-1 then Lafayette, La., 4-1 and finishing with Alexandria, La., in a 4-0 shutout.
In the finals, the team trailed most of the game 0-1 until Evan Caddy scored to make it 1-1. In the two 10 minute overtime periods neither team was able to score and the match went to penalty kicks which Bryant dominated. PK’s were scored by Bryan Oldham, JT Dudderar, and Bryce Denker. Keeper Slade Lewis shut down the foe from Monroe only giving up one PK to secure the victory.
Callie Schalk
I am Callie Marie Schalk from Bryant United U-14 Boys team. I would say our team is like one big family and we all know that sometimes we have to play where we don’t want to but it is best for the team. The only way we won this tournament was because we all filled in to where we were needed especially during the final game. During the final game, we ended up with 4 injuries by the end of the match, and we all just knew that we had to fill in where we were needed. The other reason we won this tournament was because of our Coaches Eric Myers, Randy Whittaker, and Kevin Johnson. There is one other person that needs to be recognized for giving it his all at this tournament and that person is [b]Slade Lewis[/b]. He only let 3 goals by during this tournament and that is amazing since we were playing Premier teams. So I would like to Thank all of the Parents and Coaches and other supporters for supporting and pushing us to go to practices even if we didn’t want to and getting us to games and tournaments.