So Cal Blues concluded a perfect club soccer season on Saturday in front of a rowdy home crowd. The Blues won over 30 games without suffering a loss or draw along the way. In the ECNL U15 National Championship on Saturday against Solar Chelsea SC, Blues scored 40 seconds into the game and never took their collective foot off the gas. The final ended up with a 7-2 result in favor of So Cal as the swarming pressure and clinical finishing was too much for the Texas side.

The conclusion of the season hardly a surprise for any who follow youth soccer. This Blues team has been so dominant this season that they finished the campaign with an average of over five goals scored per game. Solar, the 2016 U14 USYS National Champions, were the closes thing to a worthy challenger that Blues have seen recently. The champions were eager for the challenger, but the Blues attacking trio of Reilyn Turner, Trinity Moyer-Rodman, and Simone Jackson proved to be too much even for that Solar storied defense.

The Blues’ style of play of high-pressure and quick distribution is forcing other teams to improve in order to compete. The Blues’ plus 147 goal differential at the end of the season is evidence that not many teams could meet that challenge. Saturday’s masterpiece - which was a bit of revenge as Blues head coach Greg Baker referenced as the last time this group lost a game, the USYS championship last July - was a fitting conclusion to what the winning group had been working together to achieve over the past few seasons. The group executed in the important moments and made the opponent work hard for any semblance of success in the tussle.

Midfield standout Tatum Lenain scored the opener in the first minute of the game. Solar spent the final 20 minutes of warm-up prior to kick-off working on dealing with aerial balls against the back four. The preparation helped the group knock down the first cross of the game, but it landed with Lenain who hammered it home for her second goal of the weekend. The opening goal only increased the intensity of the pressure from Blues Turned made it 2-0 Blues only a few minutes later.

Solar tried to stick to the game plan of building around the pressure with quick passing and clever movement off the ball, but the hustle and commitment of the Blues attacking trio in defending is nearly impossible to replicate in training. And the Blues defense rarely keeps the ball long enough for the opposition to find a shape and take a breath.

Moyer-Rodman scored in the 20th minute on her first chance of the game. The forward missed the 6-0 win over Slammers in the semifinal due to injury. She hardly looked like she was hampered on Saturday, as she buried her first shot with expert precision.

The best chance for Solar came late in the first half when Alexis Missimo and Trinity Byars linked up through the center and sent Byars in behind the defense but she could not convert the chance.

With a 3-0 lead at the break, the Blues were in prime position to finish off the game in the opening minutes of the second stanza with the wave of attacking talent that ill be remembered fondly in the history books. However, Missimo had the first chance after the teams switched ends and looked like she had pulled one back, but a tremendous diving save from Ryan Campbell kept Solar off the scoreboard.

Moyer-Rodman answered back with her second goal of the game and put Blues up 4-0 in the 50th minute of the National Championship game. Jackson made it 5-0 in the 55th minute before Solar grabbed one back in the 57h via No. 6 off an assist from Byars. Jackson added another for Blues to make it 6-1 as Blues seemed to just be teeing off on the net at will through the final stages of the game.

Missimo grabbed her consolation goal, a tremendous bending effort from near the corner of the 18-yard box to the inside of the far post, to make it 6-2 with eight minutes left. Blues are never satisfied with a score until the final whistle and kept pushing for another one. Alexandria Wright took the honor of scoring the final goal of the game as the utility player was rewarded for a great weekend with a goal in the 77th minute.

Blues celebrated the title with fans and family rushing the field upon the final whistle from the center referee. The champions ended the weekend with 13 goals scored and only two conceded against the best that the rest of the country had to offer.