Brighton Soccer Club

This weekend the 99 Brighton Eclipse competed in the National Indoor Championship Tournament in Novi, MI at Total Sports Facility.
This was the next step for the team after winning the Indoor Regionals back in December. Eight teams advanced to the Nationals in the U9 Girls division to compete in a very intense tournament weekend.
The weekend began with a morning 5-0 Victory against Waza. Their second game came late last night against the Kingdom Reserves of Kalamazoo, MI. This was as tough of a battle the girls could face. Brighton took a quick 1-0 lead in the first few minutes to begin a 40 minute physical battle against a determined team. With total team effort, Brighton prevailed with a 1-0 victory. However, they now faced an early Sunday morning game against the Ohio ESSL Arsenals. (Knowing that the ESSL Arsenal and Kingdom Reserves tied their Sat. game 5-5, the girls and Coaches knew they were in for another battle). The winner of the next game would advance to the Finals. The girls made everyone proud with an amazing early morning win of 10-3!
Undefeated and winning their bracket, Brighton was up against the winner of bracket two-(also Undefeated) Gross Pointe Breakers in the Championship game Sunday afternoon. After only minutes on the field it was clear that both teams showed up to win! The game couldn't have been closer at any point with each team scoring and matching goal for goal. With about 5 minutes to go in the final game Brighton tied it 4-4. Just minutes later Brighton
scored 2 more to cinch a 6-4 victory for the tournament. It was a true team effort to the very end.
Congratulations and thanks girls for a wonderful weekend!

Congratulations to the 92 Brighton Express who advanced to the finals of the 2007 adidas Warrior Classic Tournament in Dayton, Ohio . The Express topped teams from Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania to reach the finals on Memorial Day where they fell to the WVSC Rowdies, the 2007 West Virginia State Cup champions. The 92 Express also reached the finals in the High School division of the Livingston County Soccer Invitational held August 3-5, 2007 where they fell to the 91 Livonia Meteors..