27 CAL SOUTH TEAMS MOVE INTO FAR WEST REGIONAL SEMI-FINALS

CAL SOUTH STILL IN THE RUNNING FOR ALL 16 REGIONAL TITLES
LIVE SCORING UPDATES AT REGIONIV.COM

June 19, 2009 (Lancaster, CA) - Cal South only lost five teams of its overall 32 teams in the quarterfinal round as the US Youth Soccer Far West Regional Championships took place today upon the fields of the Lancaster National Soccer Center in Lancaster, California. Cal South will send 27 total teams into Saturday's semi-final round -- 12 boys' teams and 15 girls' teams, with the girls' side only losing one team in the quarters -- and still has teams competing for a title in every one of the sixteen age and gender brackets. The Far West Regionals are taking place from June 15-21, and teams that succeed here as champions in the U14-U19 brackets will move on to the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships from July 20-26 in Lancaster, Massachusetts.

Of the twenty semi-final matches in which Cal South teams will participate tomorrow, seven of those will feature match-ups between two Cal South teams. So Cal Blues and Slammers FC face off in two of those matches. Of the teams remaining in the tournament, So Cal Blues has the most still active with five teams, West Coast FC has four, and Arsenal FC and Slammers FC each have three teams active. Still in the mix is the GU19 Eagles SC, which not only won their third straight National Cup title and fourth in six years to advance to the Far West Regionals, but are looking to once more advance to the National Championships, where they previously won a pair of titles, as U14s in 2004 and as U17s in 2007.

Live scoring updates through the weekend for the Far West Regionals can be found at RegionIV.com.

CAL SOUTH SEMI-FINAL MATCH SCHEDULE FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2009

8:00 AM
BU12 Sereno '97 White (AZ) vs. Legends FC (CS)
GU12 Arsenal FC (CS) vs. Pride Predators (CO)
BU17 United FC (CS) vs. Slammers FC (CS)
BU17 Rio Vista FC '92 (NM) vs. CZ Elite (CS)
GU17 So Cal Blues (CS) vs. Real So Cal Blue (CS)
BU18 Atlante S.D. (CS) vs. WSM Internationals (OR)
GU18 Real So Cal White (CS) vs. Pleasanton Rage (CN)
GU18 Slammers FC (CS) vs. So Cal Blues (CS)
BU19 NM Rush Premier '90 (NM) vs. DMS 11 (CS)
GU19 Eagles SC (CS) vs. Colorado Rush Nike (CO)

10:00 AM
BU13 West Coast FC (CS) vs. Washington Premier FC '95 Black (WA)
GU13 Sereno '96 White (AZ) vs. West Coast FC (CS)
BU14 West Coast FC (CS) vs. Albion White (CS)
GU14 X-treme Breakaway (CS) vs. So Cal Blues (CS)
GU14 Mustang Blast (CN) vs. San Diego Surf White (CS)
BU15 Players United '94 (NV) vs. Arsenal FC (CS)
GU15 Rio Vista FC Eagles '94 (NM) vs. So Cal Blues (CS)
BU16 Arsenal FC (CS) vs. West Coast FC (CS)
GU16 So Cal Blues (CS) vs. Slammers FC (CS)
GU16 De Anza Force 92 (CN) vs. Eagles SC (CS)