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Mineola Port Soccer Youth Win 3 Titles

U7, U8 and U9 divisions all win titles over Thanksgiving weekend.

The Mineola Portuguese Soccer Club’s youth division continues its dominance in the U7, U8 and U9 divisions all over Long Island and the east coast, adding championships number five, six, and seven for 2011 over the Thanksgiving Day weekend.

The youngest of the Mineola teams, the MPSC-Lightning (U7), won first place in the Plainedge “Kids Helping Kids Charity Tournament,” while their the MPSC-Thunder (U8) won the Long Island Rough Rider Thanksgiving Day Friday tournament. The MPSC-Storm (U9) team won number seven for the year after securing first place in the Long Island Rough Rider Thanksgiving Day Sunday tournament.

“The other clubs are starting to say that the weather in Mineola is really starting to get intimidating out there,” a parent said. “We are all tremendously proud of our boys and with a U10 team in the works for 2012; I can only imagine where this program is going.”

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