Three fast-paced futsal (indoor soccer) finals were played before a large crowd at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett Saturday night. P.S.V., a team from Queens, in the open men’s division, East Hampton Club, in the women’s division, and Team La Tri, in the men’s over-37 division, captured trophies, capping a season of play in which 28 teams vied in the open men’s league, 10 in the over-37s, and eight in the women’s group.
The night began with La Tri overwhelming Team La Calle 8-0, a game that was halted five minutes before the allotted 45 because of the mercy rule. Wilson Calderon, assisted by Romulo Tubatan, got the rout going in the eighth minute, and Calderon fed Roberto Camacho for a 2-0 La Tri lead in the 14th.
The floodgates opened in the second period, with Tubatan, Calderon, Camacho (two), Freddy Contreras, and Eduardo Salazar finding Team La Calle’s nets. For his hat trick, Camacho was named the game’s most valuable player.
The championship was the second straight for La Tri, Tubatan said, adding that “we beat the same team last year, though not as badly.”
The East Hampton Club also repeated that night, besting the Eagles 4-1 behind first-half goals by Dinora Pereira, Kaylee Munoz (two), and Evelyn Luna. Munoz’s second one, off a rebound, was scored just before the halftime buzzer. Sonia Pudi, from about 12 yards out, scored for the Eagles in the 13th minute, after East Hampton Club had taken a 3-0 lead.
The last 25 minutes of play were scoreless, though East Hampton Club, which came close on a couple of occasions, continued to attack in the second half.
Jessica Barros, who orchestrated a number of East Hampton Club’s attacks, was named afterward as the final’s most valuable player.
The well-tuned P.S.V. team, which debuted in league play at Sportime this fall and winter, was clearly the superior one in the men’s open final, though the Medio Peloteros, especially in the second half, put up a fight.
Passing crisply and controlling the ball, the Queens team started strong. The locals’ agile goalie, Manuel Loja, made four or five big saves before Fernando Valdez, P.S.V.’s chief defender and the tallest player on the floor, put a shot by him with two and a half minutes to go in the first period.
Alex Piojo and Edison Mesa, who was to be named the M.V.P., combined to put P.S.V. ahead 2-0 in the opening minutes of the second half, and, soon after, Felix Rodriguez shook the cage with a blast that zipped by Loja for a 3-0 lead.
By this time, however, with about 20 more minutes left to play, the forwards for the Medio Peloteros, Junior Llivisaca and Juan Vargas chiefly, were showing signs of life. Vargas’s follow of a breakaway shot that Llivisaca took put the Medio Peloteros on the scoreboard in the 27th minute. A hard shot by Llivisaca clanged off the crossbar in the 39th.
Daniel Vergara, P.S.V.’s goalie, made a sliding save moments later that foiled another Medio Peloteros chance, and the game ended with an onrushing Llivisaca upended in P.S.V.’s goal mouth.
