The Golden Valley Phoenix U13C3 boy's team captures the title at the MYSA Summer State games.

The Mustangs who are coached by Nic Platter, Jack Beaird and Adrian Sotro finished their regular season with 10 wins, 0 ties and 0 losses to qualify for 1st seed to state representing the West District.

At state game #1, the team faced Valley United and pulled off a 3-2 win with Joey Beaird scoring 3 times. Game 2 was against the St. Paul Blackhawk's and the Golden Valley Mustangs won 2-1 carried on the shoulders of a tenacious defense led by sweeper Ian

Lovitt and goalie Michael fields. Game 3 was against Champlain Dayton

and the Mustangs won 4-0 in a game played in a cold driving rain. Jeremy Hamel played at offensive midfield with an as-yet-undiagnosed broken arm. In spite of the fracture, the mud and the rain, he led his team to victory with 3 goals.

The championship game was against a tough, fast, high-scoring North Branch team. In a tooth & nail game, the Mustangs pulled off a 4-3 victory to take the state championship. Joey Beaird kept the team in the hunt with 2 goals early. Mateusz Fisher scored from right wing for the teams third goal. The winning goal came with twelve minutes left on a service from Joey Beaird at the flag to defensive midfielder Denis Beaird who one-timed it to the corner of the net. North Branch mounted a fierce attack, but, as they had all year stopper David Sotro, defenders Joey Bies, Taylor Luther, and Pete Coryell were up to the challenge and held on for the win.