The Lefty's Bar & Grill men's soccer team hosts the 32nd annual Ketchum Classic soccer tournament for 12 teams Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2-3 at Ketchum's Atkinson Park.
At the same time the Laurent Perrier women's tournament will be staged for the 27th time this coming weekend. The Ketchum-based Laurent Perrier women and four other teams make up the field.
Games will be played all day Saturday, starting at 9 a.m., on both Atkinson Park fields with three games set for the Sagewillow Farms pitch in Elkhorn. The final games are Sunday from 8:30 a.m. through 4 p.m.
Last August Boise United won the 12-team men's meet with a 1-0 championship game decision over Weber State of Ogden, Utah. Lefty's was 1-2 in the 2007 tournament. The San Lorenzo locals, 5-2 in their last two Ketchum Classic visits, will compete in the tourney for a seventh straight year.
The Park City (Utah) women won last year's four-team Ketchum Laurent Perrier meet 1-0 over Jackson Hole (Wyo.). The women's tournament is sponsored by Jim Cimino.
Here is the men's game schedule for this weekend:
Saturday, Aug. 2: At 9 a.m., Jackson Hole vs. Mexico (lower field) and Weber State vs. New Balance (upper field); at 10:30 a.m., San Lorenzo vs. Firehouse (upper field); at 12 noon, Lefty's FC vs. Pocatello (lower field), Seattle vs. New Balance (upper field) and Boise United vs. Mexico (Sagewillow Farms);
At 1:30 p.m., Boise Blast vs. Firehouse (upper field); at 3 p.m., Lefty's FC vs. Fania (lower field) and Jackson Hole vs. Boise United (upper field); at 4:30 p.m., San Lorenzo vs. Boise Blast (upper field); and at 6 p.m. Seattle vs. Weber State (lower field) and Fania vs. Pocatello (upper field).
Sunday, Aug. 3: Men's consolation games 8:30 a.m. on both Atkinson Park fields; at 11:30 a.m., men's semi-finals on both fields; at 2:30 p.m., men's championship (upper field).
Here is the women's game schedule for this weekend:
Saturday, Aug. 2: At 10:30 a.m., Sun Valley Laurent Perrier vs. Pocatello (lower field) and Jackson Hole vs. Park City (Sagewillow Farms); at 1:30 p.m., Jackson vs. Pocatello (lower field) and Park City vs. Boise (Sagewillow Farms); at 4:30 p.m., Sun Valley Laurent Perrier vs. Boise (lower field).
Sunday, Aug. 3: Women's consolation game at 10 a.m. on the lower field and women's semi-finals matching the second- and third-place teams from Saturday's play at 10 a.m. on the upper field; at 1 p.m., women's championship game.
Tune-ups at Jackson Hole
Two Sun Valley teams warmed up for their home tournament by competing last weekend in the Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Invitational tourney.
Sun Valley players Casey Mills, Lynsey Dyer, Ashley Brown and Jill McDonald combined with Jackson women to comprise one team that went 2-1 last weekend behind the scoring of University of Vermont ski racer McDonald (5 goals).
Speedy scorer McDonald tallied twice in a 3-2 victory over Park City. McDonald was limited to a single goal in a 5-1 loss to Jackson Hole's #1 team. McDonald (2 goals) led the way in a 4-1 win over Jackson #2.
Ashley Brown was solid in her position as sweeper and she also helped out as a goalkeeper for a half of one game. Dyer ran all over the midfield and played defense. Mills was versatile as well, playing midfield, defense and filling in as a goalkeeper.
The visit of the Lefty's men to Jackson Hole was marred by a compound fracture broken leg suffered by Trey Knox in the first game Saturday afternoon against Jackson Hole. Knox remained in the Wyoming hospital early this week.
Lefty's ended up winning the Jackson game in a shootout that was forced by a John Campbell regulation goal for a 1-1 tie. Making Lefty's goals in the shootout were Campbell, Cameron Lawler, Shaun Kelly and Raul Feneson. Austin McCann missed his shot. Lefty's goalkeeper Chatham Baker made two huge saves.
In a 4-2 loss to Logan (Utah), Lawler had a pair of goals. Lefty's also defeated Mexico 2-1 in a consolation game, Eric Hall accounting for one of the Sun Valley men's goals.
Sun Valley/Jackson women’s soccer players at last weekend’s Jackson Invitational in Wyoming included, from left, Ashley Brown, Lynsey Dyer, Jill McDonald and Casey Mills. Photo by
