Before most local sports fans officially move indoors for the winter season, the 2024 high school soccer season will have two more games Sunday at Al Cowell Sr. Field in Hamilton’s Veterans Park, where the Mercer County Hall of Fame/Glenn “Mooch” Myernick Senior Games will take place. The events honor the memory of Myernick, who grew up playing soccer in Lawrence and went on to earn national and international fame, before dying suddenly 18 years ago. In fact, the Mooch Soccer Program, which gives inner-city kids in the Trenton area the opportunity to play the sport with help from high-profile coaches like Mike Van Wagner and Charlie Inverso, is one of the event’s main supporters. The games begin with a noon contest featuring senior high school girls’ soccer players from around Mercer County. Then, at 2 p.m., a similar contest featuring senior high school boys’ soccer players from around Mercer will cap the festivities. Player sign-ins to pick up jerseys will start, for the girls, at 11:30 a.m. and, for the boys, at 1:30 p.m. at a table near the field’s entrance. With help from sponsors like Mooch Soccer; the Mercer County Soccer Hall of Fame; NJM Insurance; Ciro Baldino and family of Conte’s Pizza; RSword; Richard Fornaro of Fornaro & Francioso, Counselors at Law; Dino Spadaccini of the Spadaccini Law Firm; the Ancient Order of the Hibernians; Tony Rosica & Greg Harvell of Keller Williams Premier Real Estate; Marsilio’s/Rossi’s Bar and Grill; plus Premier Key Abstract, the Mooch Senior Games will again be free to the public. The teams, coached by members of the Mercer County Soccer Hall of Fame, are divided into Red and White squads to commemorate Myernick’s school colors at Lawrence High. Like the coaches, the referees for the matches donate their time in hopes that all might enjoy one more fun day of soccer before the exciting 2024 fall season, which saw six local teams reach a sectional final, comes to a close. MOOCH SENIOR GAMES ROSTERS Girls’ Red Team Saanvi Kumar (WW-P North); Meg Balerna, Maya Raghunandanan, Kayla Raghunandanan, Arden Galvelis (Pennington); Gabriella Smith, Zunica Zubah (Trenton); Chloe Salapatas, Sofia Romanelli, Eva Ouyang, Noelee Cha (Peddie); Gabbi DeMarco, Sophie Cammarata, Grace Weissenberger, Rachel Shumsky (Hightstown); Ava Tabeart, Marina Zaldarriaga, Nadia Mauger (Princeton); Martha Olorunnisola, Lauren Fanning, Amanda Hoglund, Jadelyn Sayraef (Allentown); Maddie McIntyre, Ellie Turchetta, Jesslyn Bentum (Lawrenceville); Emily Gamboa Ordini, Landen Jovolos, Olivia Picerno, Sydney Gonzalez (Ewing); Isabella Conte, Ava Riley, Carissa Scelza (Hamilton West). Girls’ White Team Reilly Klein, Mia Garofalo, Mia Tramo, Tegan Fairfax (Steinert); Shelby Ruf, Reese Overman, Makenna Graham, Sophia Zhou (PDS); Allie Devlin, Madison Poe, Sam Raics, Kailey Jacobs (Hun); Keziah Thankachan, Isla Levy, Ahana Joshi, Shaili Holden (WW-P South); Bridget Cutty, Emma Wilke, Kaitlin Wilke (Nottingham); Clara Mayer, Charlotte Barnes, Gianna Azarra, Chloe Livechhi (Hopewell Valley); Reagan O’Mara, Isabella Lynch, Riley Cunningham, Jamie White (Notre Dame); Michaela Little, Liliana Calderone (Lawrence); Caileigh Guzik, Sofia DiMeola, Stella Cerniglia, Ella Moir (Robbinsville). Boys’ Red Team Stamatis Golfinopoulos, Brady Le, Owen Eldridge (Lawrenceville); Parker Gordon, Miguel Tafur, Sebastian Rincon, Edison Pillco (Hightstown); Radesh Sankaran, Jacob Nielsen, Adham Mohamed, Animesh Chauhan (WW-P South); Tyler Tafrow, Elliot Morris, Jacob Reilly, Dennis Chaykovskyy (Steinert); Gavin Nau, Manny Thacher, Michael Muscente, Andrew Halko (Hopewell Valley); Ruben Hernandez Parral, Michael Changoluisa, Josh Hernandez (Trenton); Archie Smith, Azariah Breitman, Connor Hewitt, Nicolas Holmelund (Princeton); Platon Trofimchuk, Travis Schubert, Evan Skinner, Tomasz Majkut (Lawrence); Mark Gavrish, Ayomide Talabi, Ben Shaffer (Hamilton West). Boys’ White Team Thomas Sharkey, Alvaro Carnicer Cozar, Topher Kelley, Dustin Liu (Pennington); Elias Martinez (Ewing); Jelani Cine (Peddie); Scott Jordan, Dominic Scotto, J.P. Navroski, Cedric Mbachu (Allentown); Todd Devin, Owen Yakoby, Hart Liu Nowakoski (PDS); Brody Kaplan, Nick Grippa, Mitchell Shapiro, Ethan Pagani (Robbinsville); Will Lynch, Luigi Barricelli, Isaac Bustamante, Antonio Mandreucci (Notre Dame); Diego Pena, Luciano Verduci, Max Frost, Marius So (Hun); Dylan Rodas, Valentino Vilchez Flores, Dylan Garnica (Nottingham); Gideon Lubin, Jai Garg, John Agogliati, Sarthak Chauhan (WW-P North); Edgar Lima, Justin Berzosa (Thrive Charter). NOTRE DAME ALUMNI GAME Notre Dame’s Mike Perone Field will host their 1974 & 1975 state championship teams when the Irish hold their annual alumni game from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27, the night before Thanksgiving. The event will be open to all of the Irish’s soccer alumni with a pre-game ceremony honoring the 50th anniversary of those champions. A food truck will be on hand, and there may be some light refreshments on the sidelines. There is a registration link on ND’s website for interested participants. BOB SMITH SOCCER ACADEMY Bob Smith Soccer Academy, now located at 150 Woodward Rd. in Manalapan (formerly Sportika), is accepting registrations for its Men’s Indoor Winter Travel League. The first eight-week session will be Sundays, Dec. 1, 2024-Jan. 26, 2025. The second eight-week session will be Sundays, Feb. 2, 2025-March 30, 2025. The time period for both sessions will be 5-8 p.m. There will be a Men’s Over 30 division and a Men’s Open (18+) division. The league format is for 55-minute, 7-v-7 games. Team’s game-day opponents will be decided five days in advance of each contest based on the previous week’s results and standings. This guarantees competitive games each week. Player cards are not required. Age specific guest players are allowed. The cost is $1,575 per team, plus a $25 referee fee. That equates to under $20 per player per game. Referees are to be paid in cash before each game. If paying by credit card, the credit card company will charge you a 3.65% fee, making the total $1,632.49. If paying by cash or check, the $1,575 team fee can be mailed to Bob Smith Soccer (36 Blairmore Drive, Hamilton, NJ, 08690) within two weeks of registration. For further information, contact Bob Smith at (609) 468-7208 or visit www.bobsmithsoccer.com.