PRESQUE ISLE – The Ashland boys and Presque Isle girls emerged the victors in the Presque Isle Recreation and Parks Department’s annual high school indoor soccer tournament on Saturday, March 15. Five boys’ teams and seven girls’ teams took part in the tournament. While both teams ended on top, they each took quite different paths to get there.
The Ashland boys finished preliminary play as the fourth seeded team, compiling a record of 0-2-2. They played the number-five Hornets in quarterfinal action, dropping their younger teammates by a score of 2-0.
Next up were the Presque Isle Seniors, who finished round robin play with a perfect 4-0 record. Ashland rallied from 1-0 and 2-1 deficits to take the 3-2 come from behind victory.
Ashland took on the Presque Isle Juniors in the finals. The PI Juniors reached the finals by downing Caribou 1-0 in a thrilling semifinal matchup. Regulation time and a five minute overtime period weren’t enough to settle the championship game, and the two teams moved to a shootout. Ashland finally came through on the eighth shooter to pick up the 4-3 win.
The Presque Isle girls locked up the first seed in the playoffs via a perfect 4-0 record in preliminary action. They met up with the number-four Madawaska in the semifinals. Presque Isle’s offense was too much for Madawaska, and PI coasted to the 4-1 victory. The championship game pitted Presque Isle against Caribou, who had also defeated their fall teammates in the semifinal round, 2-1. Presque Isle kept the offense rolling, tallying the first three goals of the game en route to the 4-1 victory.
In other quarterfinal action, the number-two Vikings held off the number-seven Hornets 2-1 in a game that went to a sudden death shootout round. Caribou also knocked off the number-three Ashland team 1-0.
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2008 INDOOR SOCCER CHAMPS. Team members are, from the left, Mackenzie Pinette, Shantelle Cyr, Abbie Lapointe, Hannah Cheney, Kayla Legassie, Katrina Whittier and Sarah Porter. 
