The Cal Odyssey, the No. 31 seed when the U-15/16 U.S. Soccer Development Academy playoffs began, advanced to Friday's final against the top-seed Derby County Wolves (TV: ESPN Classic, 7 pm PT/10 pm
ET), earning a 1-1 tie with Washington Premier Thursday at the Home Depot Center to clinch the Group 2 crown.
The Fresno area club had earlier won its first two matches at Finals Week,
so it only needed a tie to advance.
Jose Segura's penalty kick gave the Odyssey its only goal of the game.
In Group A, the Wolves, who had already
wrapped up first place, fell to the New York Red Bulls, 2-0. In the other game, FC Dallas came from two goals down to tie Chicago Magic AS Monaco, 2-2.
FC Dallas star
Brian Leyva is the Finals Week leading scorer with four goals.
GROUP 1 July 11 Chicago Magic AS Monaco 4 New York Red Bulls 1 Magic -- Horton (Engel) 16
NYRB --
Manosalvas (pen.) 25
Magic -- Engel (pen.) 57
Magic -- Horton 60
Magic -- Caban 70
Derby County Wolves 3 FC Dallas 1 DCW --
Losee 62
DCW -- Tyler (Weberman) 69
FCD -- Leyva 78
DCW -- Losee (Magee) 82
July 13 FC Dallas 3 New York Red Bulls 0
FCD -- Leyva 24
FCD -- Leyva 28
FCD -- Luna 42
Derby County Wolves 1 Chicago Magic AS Monaco 0
DCW -- Hicklin 65
July 15
New York Red Bulls 2 Derby County Wolves 0
NYRB -- Gonzalez
6
NYRB -- Lyle 41
Chicago Magic AS Monaco 2 FC Dallas 2
Magic -- Bushue (pen.) 1
Magic
-- Wilkins 36
FCD -- Leyva (Luna) 37
FCD -- Garcia 38
Final Standings TEAM W L T F GA
P Derby Cty. Wolves 2 1 0 4 3 6
Chicago Magic ASM 1 1 1 6 4 4
FC Dallas 1 1 1 6 5 4
N.Y. Red Bulls 1 2 0 3 7
3 GROUP 2 July 11
PDA 1 Washington
Premier 0
PDA -- Allen 38
Cal Odyssey 1 Greensboro Youth 0 Odyssey -- Antognoli (Trejo) 65
July 13
Washington Premier 2 Greensboro Youth 1
GYS -- Alvarez (Kanneh) 66
WAP -- Cox 15
WAP -- Cox
18
Cal Odyssey 1 PDA 0
Odyssey -- Biijev (Newmark) 29
July 15 Cal Odyssey 1 Washington Premier 1 Odyssey -- Jose Segura (pen.) 60
WAP -- Jones 75
PDA 2
Greensboro Youth 0
PDA -- Thomsen (Uttaro) 29
PDA -- Allen (Thomsen) 36
Final Standings TEAM W L T F GA P
Cal Odyssey 2 0 1 3 1 7
PDA 2 1 0 3 1 6
Wash. Premier 1 1 1 3 3 4
Greensboro Youth 0 3 0 1 4 0