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4 Elkins Seneca Soccer groups that competed within the West Virginia Soccer Affiliation’s Open Cup final month have been honored on the Rotary Amphitheater this week. The Elkins 12 years-old-and-under and 14 years-old-and-under ladies groups have been each named match champions, alongside the Elkins 15 years-old-and-under co-ed squad. The Elkins boys 12years-old-and-under crew earned a second-place end of their division.
ELKINS — A bunch of native youth soccer gamers have been honored this week for his or her participation in a match in Charleston that ended abruptly due to gunfire in a close-by neighborhood.
On Might 19, 4 groups from the Elkins Seneca Soccer League have been competing within the West Virginia Soccer Affiliation’s Open Cup on the Shawnee Sports activities Advanced in Charleston, when photographs echoed throughout the a number of soccer and baseball fields on the facility.
The drive-by taking pictures passed off two blocks from the sports activities complicated and despatched gamers, coaches and spectators scrambling for canopy, together with a big group of adults and youngsters from Elkins.
“All 4 of our groups have been taking part in on these fields on the similar time when the taking pictures passed off,” Seneca Soccer League president Ellen Shepherd advised The Inter-Mountain. “We had two groups that needed to bounce the fence on the complicated to get out and take cowl, The opposite two groups have been shut sufficient to the doorway to get out that manner.”
The rest of the match was canceled due to the taking pictures and the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Division arrested three people within the incident the next day.
Shepherd, who’s a instructor at Third Ward Elementary Faculty, stated the Randolph County Board of Training supplied gamers with counseling after the scary occasion.
“It was scary for everybody concerned and the board supplied counseling the subsequent day for any pupil who wanted it,” Shepherd stated. “They did a terrific job of checking in on everyone they usually have been actually useful for the children and households.”
On Monday, in a ceremony held on the Rotary Amphitheatre downtown, Elkins Mayor Jerry Marco honored the 4 groups and the gamers for his or her braveness and efficiency within the match.
The Elkins 12 years-old-and-under and 14 years-old-and-under ladies groups have been each topped champions of the tourney, as was the 15 years-old-and-under co-ed squad. The Elkins boys 12 years-old-and-under crew earned a second-place end of their division.
“After they canceled the match, the awards have been despatched to Elkins and we have been completely happy to honor the children on the Amphitheatre,” Marco stated. “They’d nice success on the match and that was attributed to their onerous work, dedication and numerous follow time. I commend all of the gamers, coaches and gamers. I’m very pleased with them for the way in which they performed and represented the Metropolis of Elkins.”
For extra details about Seneca Soccer and its upcoming fall league, go to the group’s Fb web page or electronic mail senecasoccer@gmail.com.
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