Perry's Catalina Feliz defends against Sacred Heart's Mia Belitz. (Ren Foslin/Special to Stripes)
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan – Youth was served Wednesday – and plenty of it – as Matthew C. Perry won its first Far East Division II girls soccer tournament title in eight years.
Freshman striker Priscilla Ramirez scored her 55th goal of the season with five minutes left, assisted by senior midfielder Sasha Malone, and the Samurai blanked International School of the Sacred Heart 1-0 Wednesday at Perry’s Samurai Field.
It was a Samurai team that is losing eight of its 15 players either to transfer or graduation, so for coach Daniel Burns and his charges, it was “now or never,” he said.
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