Yavapai Cup Soccer Tournament Returns to Prescott area

Yavapai Cup TournamentThe Daily Courier

Spring dew clings to tangled branches below dusk-twilight in the greater Prescott area. In the distance, at the periphery of audible sensation, faint buzzing heralds a swarm of soccer players.

They’ll descend in a three-day flurry beginning today, some 4,000 people, including 132 youth teams from Arizona, California, New Mexico and Utah.

They’ll storm 21 soccer fields, including municipal fields in Prescott Valley and Chino and the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University field, in Prescott.

But, unlike a locust plague, the 18th annual Yavapai Cup soccer tournament leaves a positive aftermath of skill-level matched games and local revenue.
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Yavapai Soccer U13 Boys Team Wins First Place at Blackhawks Tournament

Yavapai Cup Soccer TournamentThe Daily Courier

Yavapai Soccer’s U13 Boys team competed in the Blackhawks Invitational SoccerTournament Feb 25-26 and won the second division in overwhelming fashion, besting two Division I teams and a Division II team in the process.

The team won the final game in a shootout to take the crown.

This is another tournament win for this young team as they move up in divisions and standings in the state.
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