Article from today's Saipan Tribune: 

Perennial rivals MP United Football Club and Paire Football Club will collide in the finals of the 2014 FA Boys and Girls Challenge Cup, following their separate semis victories last Saturday at the Hopwood Junior High School Field.

MP United co-ed U12 marched into the finals first after slipping past Matansa co-ed U12, 1-0, while Paire co-ed U12 downed Tan Holdings co-ed U12, 3-1, to force a rematch of the 2011 Cup finals. MP United won the finale three years ago, 1-0, while Matansa ruled the 2012 edition of the tournament for co-ed U12 teams and girls U15 squads. Last year, Paire attempted to return to the finals after it bowed to MP United anew and the latter went on to clinch its second championship after shutting out Matansa in the 2013 finals, 3-0.

This season, MP United has a chance to go for back-to-back crown and third since the inception of the tournament four years ago after eliminating Matansa in the first semis game. MP United recorded the lone goal in the semis match off a Matansa error in the 29th minute.

In the second Final Four pairing, Jamin Elliot lifted Paire to victory, scoring back-to-back goals against Tan Holdings. Elliot nailed his first goal in the 10th minute and got his second one in the 35th. Tan Holdings was without a goal in the first half, but attempted a comeback in the second frame when Thaiphi Austria found the back of the net early in that period to force a standoff. However, Elliot earned his second goal and four minutes later, Raffi Lee canned the insurance.

Paire will play the winner-take-all finals against MP United this Thursday at 4:30pm at the San Antonio Elementary School Field. San Antonio will also host today’s consolation match between Matansa U12 and Tan Holdings U12 at 4:30 pm.

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Saturday May 17 there is a 3 v 3 tournament for U8, U10 and U12 players.  Teams are limited to 6 players.  The tournament will run from 8 am (registration) to about 3:30 pm.  Paire will enter one U8 team, and probably two U10 teams and two U12 teams.  Information about the tournament was e-mailed to all parents - and if their player wanted to participate they were to reply to the e-mail.  If you did not receive the e-mail, and you player is interested in the 3 v 3 tournament - send an e-mail to [email protected] ASAP.  We have to finalize the team rosters before the tournament.

Paire's U12 FA Challenge Cup team defeated Tan Holding's U12 team this past Saturday May 10 at Hopwood Junior High School in a head to head battle.  Paire's Jamin Elliot scored the only goal in the first half.  In the second half Raffi Lee made a beautiful cross to Jamin who made his second score of the game.  Just a few minutes after that Raffi put another one in the net for Paire's 3rd goal and final goal of the game.  Towards the end of the second half Tan Holdings finally made it through Paire's defense with a single goal to bring the final score to 3 - 1.

Paire U12 will play MP United U12 on Thursday May 15 at 4:30 pm at San Antonio Elementary School for the Cup Championship game!

Paire's U12 combined team defeated the Paire U15 girls team this past Saturday and will move on to the semi-finals this next Saturday.  

Several weeks ago the youth committee held a blind draw to determine slots for the U12 and U15 Girls Cup.  The draw came out so that the two Paire teams entered in the cup - the U12 combined team (made up of the U12 Black and U12 Red teams) and the U15 Girls team play each other.  Since this is a single elimination tournament - there can be only one team that moves on.  So who will it be?  U15 Girls or U12?  Go to Koblerville Elementary school this Saturday at 1:00 pm to find out which Paire team will advance!