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FPC captain Aron Binkley shoots for another goal as University's Owen Baylor challenges him in their first game at the 5 Star soccer tournament. Photo by Michele Meyers
FPC forward Jack Moberly makes a break for the goal as University midfielder Nicolas Herrera chases him down during the first round of the Five Star Conference soccer tournament. Photo by Michele Meyers
FPC forward Kayden Alvarez (14) chips the ball up field as University midfielder Kia Lawrence fights to gain control. Photo by Michele Meyers
FPC goalkeeper Teagan Paulo and coach Ramtin Amiri walk off the field after their win against University in their first game at the 5 Star soccer tournament. Photo by Michele Meyers
FPC midfielder Chase Magee battles University's Javier Vega as they move toward the goal during the 5 Star soccer tournament. Photo by Michele Meyers
FPC captain Aron Binkley shoots against University's Owen Baylor. Binkley scored on three penalty kicks in the game. Photo by Michele Meyers
University goalkeeper Manny Beltran (88) lunges toward the ball after FPC's Aron Binkley takes a penalty kick. Binkley scored on three PKs. Photo by Michele Meyers
Defender Spencer Zogg (16) gets the ball out of the back field in the 5 Star game against University. Photo by Michele Meyers
FPC midfielder Chase Magee battles University's Javier Vega as they move toward the goal during the 5 Star soccer tournament. Photo by Michele Meyers
FPC defender Matthew Mercedal kicks between the flying legs of University's Daneel Martinez in the teams' first 5 Star soccer game. Photo by Michele Meyers
Midfielders Chase Magee (10) and Nicolas Herrera battle for ball control in their first game at the 5 Star soccer tournament. Photo by Michele Meyers
University players Owen Baylor (14) and Jordan Pham (11) watch as teammate Jaiden Cinkosky heads the ball down field toward their goal during the 5 Star soccer tournament. Photo by Michele Meyers
Flagler Palm Coast soccer goalie Teagan Paulo stormed out of the goal area, running well past the 18-yard box, to intercept the ball from a University player. The long shot hit Paulo in his chest and bounced back to the opponent and Paulo was caught flat-footed.
It was an uh-oh moment. But Paulo’s teammates are used to it.
“That’s like an every-game thing, since the first game of the season,” FPC coach Ramtin Amiri said. “The team knows that if he comes flying out, they just drop in behind.”
Noah Daily dropped down and cleared a shot away, and the Bulldogs went on to defeat University 4-0 in a Five Star Conference boys quarterfinal on Saturday, Jan. 13 at the Ormond Beach Sports Complex.
Aron Binkley scored three penalty kicks and Jack Moberly added a score off a pass from Binkley as FPC won its 10th game in a row to improve to 14-3. Paulo recorded his sixth consecutive clean sheet and his 10th of the season.
I’ve complete trust in him. Sometimes he scares me. He does some wild stuff, but he gets the job done.”
— JACK MOBERLY on goalkeeper Teagan Paulo
“I’ve complete trust in him,” Moberly said of FPC’s sophomore goalkeeper. “Sometimes he scares me. He does some wild stuff, but he gets the job done.”
The Bulldogs were scheduled to play district-rival Spruce Creek in the conference semifinals at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16, at the Ormond Sports Complex.
The score against University was 0-0 early in the second half when Paulo’s missed save gave the Titans an opportunity to score the go-ahead goal.
“Noah saved us there for sure,” Paulo said. “When I turned around, I saw the ball there and I saw my teammate. I trusted he would get there. But I still felt, ‘I'm about to let the team down a bit here,’ and, you know, that's not a great feeling ever. But luckily it didn't matter. We got the result, no goals against. So it's all you can wish for.”
Paulo’s commanding presence in goal this season has been well worth those very few times when he decides to leave the goal area and doesn’t come up with the ball, his coach and teammates say.
“Teagan has been phenomenal,” Amiri said. “That's the one difference between this year and last year. He’s like a presence. We have always had decent goalkeepers, but with him, his voice, the way he flies out of the box when he needs to — it's a little bit scary sometimes — but we trust him to this point to do it correctly. And he has so far this season.”
The Bulldogs defeated the Titans by a 4-0 score for the second time this season. Amiri was not pleased with his team’s first-half play when they couldn’t convert their opportunities. He moved everybody forward in the second half to put more pressure on University.
“In the second half, we really started working together, stringing everybody into the offense, rather than just two or three of us,” Moberly said.
Binkley drilled all three of his penalty kicks into the right corner of the net and tied Moberly — his best friend for the past eight years — in the Bulldogs’ scoring race with a team-high 18 goals apiece.
“It’s all fun and games,” Moberly said of the competition between the two junior strikers. “It’s always been like this. We’ve always been racing and competing with each other. We’re the reasons we are where we’re at. He’s the reason where I’m at.”
Moberly said the Bulldogs don’t care who scores the goals as long as they keep winning.
“We have a completely different mindset this year,” Moberly said. “Everybody here wants it. We all play for each other. It's a family this year.”
