The INTENSITY’s Faith Schneider-Reuter (left) and Hannah-Hart-Pomerantz smother an opposing ballhandler. Photo: Dean Hart.

LoCO Sports, Humboldt’s only sports news source, comes to you today with the latest bout of buttkickery Humboldt has inflicted on the outside world!

Step up, AC Samoa Intensity U-19 Girls! They dribbled, passed and struck their way to the top in the Rogue Memorial Challenge in Medford this last weekend, leaving this poor reporter for the local Mail-Tribune nearly as gobsmacked as the Intensity’s so-called “competition”! 

The Intensity win!

Now read more, from AC Samoa Chief Public Information Officer Dean Hart:

AC Samoa U19 Girls Cap Season and Final Tournament with Victories

AC Samoa’s U19 girls have been battling it out in Northern California and Oregon for the past six years, playing competitive D1 club soccer in the NorCal Premier League and traveling to regional tournaments. Competing at the Gold level, playing 95 percent of their games on the road, these talented athletes have managed to achieve amazing feats for a rural club competing in the urban soccer hotbeds of the Bay Area, Santa Rosa, Portland, OR and Medford, OR.

Completing their final season together before eight players head off to play college soccer, AC Samoa managed to clinch their spring league championship, and win their final regional tournament this past weekend in Medford, OR; the Rogue Memorial Challenge. As stated by Nick Parker, long-term AC Samoa Coach and Player Director, “These girls have really put Humboldt on the soccer map, and have made me very proud of both their soccer accomplishments and their collegiate goals.”

The AC Samoa U19 Girls finished their Samoa careers with an exclamation point … ranked #2 in Northern California and #15 in the nation!

CHAMPS. Photo: Dean Hart.