Shirley\u2019s Football Club closed out the 2011 season with back-to-back futsal championships, making the team the group to watch this year.<\/p>\n
Shirley\u2019s FC\u2019s recent conquest came in the 2011 NMIFA Women\u2019s Futsal Fall League where it defeated Independents FC in the finals, 3-1, last Wednesday to cap the season with a perfect record.<\/p>\n
The champion team is composed of Marielle and Marilou Gariguez, Jeraldine and Jeralyn Castillo, Jhaneeka Atalig, Lalaine Pagarao, Melody Johnson, Alexa Vergara, Mikky Vargas, and Mae Angelie Ito. Majority of these players also suited up for Shirley\u2019s FC A, which also reigned supreme in the inaugural 2011 Saipan Soccer School Futsal League at the TSL Sports Complex.<\/p>\n
Shirley\u2019s FC had an 11-3-0 win-loss-draw record in the SSS futsal league and then a few months later went 6-0 in the NMIFA competition. Shirley\u2019s swept Independents FC, Paire FC, and MP United in the double-round robin regular season to gain the top seeding in the playoffs. <\/p>\n
In six matches in the regular season, Shirley\u2019s FC scored 38 goals, the most in the field, and gave up only two goals. Paire recorded the second most goals with 22 and finished second with a 4-2-0 slate, while IFC was ranked third with its 1-1-3 card and five goals for and three goals against. MP United placed last with a 0-1-4 card and tallied the least goals in the group with two.<\/p>\n
In the playoffs, Shirley\u2019s FC was pitted against the winless MP United and the top-ranked squad cruised past the latter in the semis, 13-0. In the other semis pairing, Independents pulled off an upset over the depleted Paire to set up a title showdown against Shirley\u2019s FC. <\/p>\n
With the 2011 futsal championship on the line, Shirley\u2019s FC and Independents played a physical game early on and in the end, the former\u2019s much younger and faster crew prevailed against the veteran players of the latter.<\/p>\n
Jeraldine Castillo started things out for Shirley\u2019s with her goal in the first two minutes of the match and seven minutes later, Lalaine Pagarao made it a 2-0 count. Then with only two minutes gone by in the second half, Marrielle Gariguez also found the back of the net for a big 3-0 advantage. Sarah Allen broke Independents\u2019 silence with a goal in the 32nd minute, but that was the best IFC could do in the finals.<\/p>\n
Shirley\u2019s FC was later awarded the perpetually trophy, which Paire won in 2010. Shirley\u2019s joined the 2010 competition, too, but only played in the recreational league and failed to advance to the finals after losing to Matansa in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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