ACFC 7s take Setanta title (revised Mar. 23)

L A P L

ACFC lost a tight 3-2 decision to FK Dinamo Monday night at Crossroads leaving the squad in 10th place after regular season play with a record of 7 wins, 13 losses and 2 ties.

ACFC will face seventh-place PAFC in the Cup Tourney's First Round Thursday, March 31 at Crossroads with an 8 PM kickoff. The winner will then play the Coyotes -- who received a bye into Round 2 -- Monday, April 4 at Crossroads (8 PM kickoff).

S M A S L

With just one week left in the winter/spring season, the ACFC 7s captured the SMASL Sentanta Division title Saturday with a scorching 13-1 win over Del Rey City Admiralty.

Del Rey, who must have felt somewhat like Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo, found themselves quickly down 2-0 after just five minutes, and 9-0 at the half.

The second half was fairly quiet on the scoring front for the first few minutes, before ACFC resumed its bombardment with an additional four strikes before Del Rey earned its lone tally in the final minute.

Brandon Cooke led the charge with four goals, followed by James Green, Russ Muratov and Ivan with braces, and Andreas, Angel and Rahoul Ghose with singles.

ACFC sits on top the Setanta Division with 21 points (76 goals for, 35 against), two points up on nearest rivals multiple scorgasms on 18 points, and AWOL Select with 15.  With a win counting for three points in the league, the best the scorgasms can hope for is a tie on points if ACFC lose their last match against Westside Proper FC.  The scorgasms play Del Rey in their finale. However, ties are first contested on head-to-head results and head-to-head goal differential.

SMASL TIE-BREAKING METHODOLOGY

1) Head to Head competition in common games during the season with the tied team, greater points total wins.
2) Goals For minus Goals Against in Head to Head Competition with the tied team, the team with the greater differential wins.

The scorgasms took their first matchup against ACFC 7-5, Jan. 22.  But ACFC struck back with a vengeance Feb. 26, winning 9-2, tipping the GD race in ACFC's favor 14-9.  Of course a win in ACFC's finale would make them clear winners anyways. Congrats to the team for taking the Cup for a second successive season.

For the AC Allstars, who play in the Santiago Division, the waters are much more muddied right now. With one game to play in the season three teams are tied for the lead on points at 17: the Allstars, That's What She Said and Busbys SC. Coffee Bean is one point off the top at 16 points, while the final two teams -- LA Lekers and Tangled Roots -- are out of contention with five and three points a piece.

Despite having to play a man down due to a red card infraction this week, the Allstars managed to tie Coffee Bean 2-2, with James Green recording the brace.

This coming Saturday sees the following match-ups:

AC Allstars vs That's What She Said
LA Lekers vs Tangled Roots
Busbys SC vs Coffee Bean

For the Allstars to have any hope of also repeating as Cup winners, they must beat TWSS.  Then the only way for that reality to occur is for Coffee Bean to beat or tie Busbys.  This would give the Allstars 20 points, Busbys SC 18 and Coffee Bean 17 (tie scenerio) or Coffee Bean 19 and Busbys 17 (win scenerio) ... and TWSS 17 points. If Busbys win, then even though the Allstars would be tied on points, they would lose on head-to-head goal differential.  Here's hoping for the right alignment in the stars.

S O U T H   B A Y  S P O R T S  L E A G U E

The ACFC Cuties had a quiet one this week with Goats SC defaulting. The squad now had three straight wins to top the division. The Cuties play the Wolves next week at Aviation Park with a 5:30 PM kickoff.