Congratulations for a great year! Team Awards are.....

Men’s Soccer
MVP: Meina Ragheb
Coaches Award: Matthew Roeschke
Top Scorer: George Prieto

Valley Christian hosted St. Elizabeth in it’s last league game of the season and lost 2-1.
Scorers for St. Elizabeth were Wilmer Zavala at the 26th min. and Rafael Espinoza at the 49th min.
Scorer for Valley Christian was George Perieto at the 56th min. He was assisted by Cliff Woodward.
Shots on Goal: Valley took 23 shots. St. Elizabeth took 7.
Saves: Valley Christian (Tyler Greer) 5 saves. St. Elizabeth (Omar Aguilar) 3 saves.
Records: Valley Christian – Overall – 2 wins, 14 losses and 4 Ties. League – 0 wins, 10 losses and 2 ties.
St. Elizabeth – Overall – 4 wins, 10 losses, 3 ties. League – 2 wins, 9 losses and 1 tie.

This concludes Valley Christian’s 2009 men’s Soccer Season.

Valley Christian traveled to Head Royce in Oakland for a league (BCL-E) game this afternoon and lost 7 – 1.
Scorers for Head Royce: Ryan Madden - 1 at the 5th min. and 1 at the 26th min. Connor Scherer - 1 at the 39th min. Nick Leach - 1 at the 10th min., 1 at the 41st min., 1 at the 42nd min. (hat trick 3 goals) Mitchell Ito - 1 at the 46th min.
Scorer for Valley Christian: George Perieto – 1 at the 48th min.
Shots on goal: Head Royce took 27. Valley took 4.
Keeper Saves: Valley (Tyler Greer) 18 saves. Head Royce (Andrew Smith) 5 saves.
Team Record: Head Royce – Overall – 10 wins 5 losses 2 ties – League (BCL-E) 8 wins 0 losses 1 tie.
Team Record: Valley Christian – Overall – 2 wins 13 losses 4 ties – League (BCL-E) 0 wins 9 losses 2 ties.
Last game of the season for Valley Christian will be Friday vs. St. Elizabeth at home.

Valley Christian hosted Leadership Public School – Richmond this afternoon In a non-league match and lost 4 – 0.
Goal Scorers for LPS – Kevyn Pedroza – 1 goal at 5 min. Humberto Martinez 1 goal at min. 27. Edgar Gutierrez 2 goals – one at 49 min. the other at 67 min.
Shots on Goal: Valley took 15 shots. LPS took 20 shots.
Saves: Valley (Tyler Greer) - 11. LPS (Atexis Banuelos) - 2
Team Records: Valley – Overall – 2 wins, 12 losses, 4 ties. League – 0 wins, 8 losses, 2 ties.
LPS – 2 wins, 2 losses, 0 ties.

Valley Christian (Dublin) hosted College Prep in a league (BCL – E) game this afternoon and lost 3 – 0.
Goal Scorers for College Prep: Brandon Smith at the 13th min. Challen Herzberg-Brovold 1 goal at the 19th min. and 1 goal at the 43ed min.
Shots on Goal: Valley took 9 shots on goal. College Prep took 17 shots on goal.
Saves: Valley had 11 saves (Keeper – Tyler Greer). College Prep had 0 saves.
Team Records: Valley Christian – Overall record is 2 wins 11 losses and 4 ties. League record is 0 wins 8 losses 2 ties.
                           College Prep – Overall record is 10 wins 4 losses 2 ties. League record is 6 wins 2 losses 1 tie.

Valley Christian hosted Redwood Christian in a BCL-E league game this afternoon. The game ended in a 2 to 2 tie. Scorers for Valley Christian were Matt Roeschke at the 26th min. and Josh McCloskey in the 41st min. They were assisted by Cliff Woodward and Alex Lai.
Shots on Goal: Valley took 16. Redwood took 17.
Keeper Saves: Valley (Tyler Greer) made 9 saves. Redwood (Kagan Im) made 6 saves.
Team Records: Valley – Overall –2 wins, 10 losses and 3 Ties – League – 0 wins, 7 Losses and 2 Ties.
Redwood – Overall 5 wins, 8 losses and 2 ties. - League –3 wins, 4 losses, 2 ties

Valley Christian played one of its best games of the season against Redwood with outstanding play by Dakota Yates at halfback, George Perieto at Center Forward and Matt Roeschke at Center Fullback.

Valley Christian hosted Bentley this afternoon in a league game and lost 3 – 0. Scorers for Bentley were Keagan Mik – one at the 30th min. of play and another at the 58th min. Yaron Kariv scored at the 28th min.
Shots on goal: Valley took 10 Bentley took 9.
Saves: Valley (Tyler Greer) made 11 saves. Bentley – 5 saves (name of goalie unknown).
Records: Valley – Overall – 2 wins, 10 losses, 2 ties. League - (BCL-E) 0 wins, 7 losses, 1 tie.
Bentley – Overall - 8 wins, 2 losses, 3 ties. League - (BCL-E) 4 wins, 2 losses , 2 ties.

Valley Christian (Dublin) hosted Leadership Public School/Hayward in a non-league game this afternoon with the game ending in a tie (3 to 3). Scorer’s for Valley were Josh McCloskey - one goal at the 34th min., George Perieto – one goal at the 38th min., and Kevin Wolf one goal (penalty kick) at the 67th min. The two non-penalty kick goals were assisted by Dakota Yates and Josh McCloskey. No names/numbers were provided for the goal scorers for Leadership Public School, Hayward. There goals were scored in the 23ed min., the 31st min., and the 74th min.
Shots on Goal – Valley took 12 shots on goal. Leadership took 17 shots on goal.
Saves – Valley (Tyler Greer) had 9 saves. Leadership had 4 saves.
Records: Valley – Overall all – 2 wins, 3 ties, and 9 losses. League – 0 wins, 1 tie, and 6 losses. Leadership 0 wins, 1 tie, and 0 losses. (first game)

I have cancelled soccer practice tomorrow (Wed. 9/30) to let the team get well and heal up for our game on Thursday. Please pray for our team, we had to play the whole second half today with only 10 players on the field and missing three of my starters from the line-up.
Ken Walker

Valley Christian (Dublin) hosted Athenian in a league game this afternoon and the game ended in a 1 to 1 tie. Valley lead off the scoring by an unassisted goal by George Prieto at the 40th min. Athenian tied the game with a free kick by Dan Bernhard in the 78th min. Valley took 10 shots on goal while Athenian took 24. Athenian’s goal keeper (Jesse Rosenberg) made 4 saves while Valley’s goal keeper (Tyler Greer) made 19 saves. Valley played one of their best games of the season with an outstanding performance by Tyler Greer with his 19 saves as the goal keeper.
Records:
Athenian – Overall – 5 wins 5 losses 2 ties – League (BCLE) 2 wins 2 losses 2 ties
Valley – Overall – 2 wins 7 losses 2 ties – League (BCLE) 0 wins 4 losses 1 tie

Valley Christian Men's Soccer will kick off it's 2009 season Monday August 17th with a week of three hour practices every day. This year's program will only have a men's varsity team which will begin its Fall season on Tuesday August 25th by playing Chinese Christian. Coach Walker has some exciting young players that will have the opportunity to contribute at the Varsity level and some seasoned Seniors to help lead the way. We are excited about our second season in the B.C.L. East and it's higher level of competition and are hoping to improve on our 5th place finish of last season.

Our home games are played at Valley Christian High School, located at 7500 Inspiration Dr., Dublin, CA. at the back of the school on a beautiful artificial turf field. Hope you can join us when you can.