Youth teams from Lower Merion and the Lehigh Valley will be representing our region at the U.S. Youth Soccer national championships in Frisco, Texas at the end of the month.
Lower Merion SC’s Sabertooth Rats U15 boys team punched their ticket to nationals with a 2-0 win over the Mechanicsburg-based HMMS Eagle FC Titans in the Region 1 championships in West Virginia on Monday.
Andrew Markopoulous and Jared Dillon scored the goals for the Sabertooth Rats in the 12th and 53rd minutes of play in the decisive game and goalkeepers Luke Smith and Sebastian Connelly combined for the clean sheet.