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Merrick Storm Wins Long Island Cup Tournament

The PAL girls team won with penalty kicks after double overtime.

The Merrick Storm, one of Merrick PAL's U11 girls travel teams, won the major division at Oceanside's Bob Schrager Memorial Long Island Cup Tournament.

The team played three games plus a playoff game. In game one, the team defeated Hewlett Lawrence with a score of 6 to 1. Game two also resulted in a victory for Merrick as they defeated Oceanside with a score of 5 to 0. Merrick played Jericho in the third game and took home a win with a 5 to 0 score.

The team played Oceanside again in the playoff game. Oceanside fought back hard and regular time ended in a 1 to 1 tie. The teams played an additional two overtime periods that remained scoreless and were forced into penalty kicks.

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