Ross United 6-0 Lusila SC
Underfell FC 1-2 Hunsen Loggers
Before the Campionato Esportiva, Isa Tangemen made her Ross United debut in the Imperial Cup, and made four saves to keep a clean sheet against a weaker Lusila side. Milan Toure also made his debut and played deep behind Lily Cress at center fielder, with Kat Bonner and Diasakos playing as inside forwards. Draga Schraeder, who has reportedly fell out of favor with Thane Hull because of her inability to play as a true striker, played next to Toure but kept herself deep for most of the match. Toure opened scoring with a free kick goal, and put the second goal of the game into the net off of a deflection, inside of the first twenty minutes. Lily Cress then scored her first Ross United goal when she received a through ball from Schraeder and ran around the keeper to tap it in. The last three goals were provided by Bonner(67 and 72), and by young subsitute midfielder Kyle Jankovic(92), who made his senior debut at the age of eighteen and scored with a curling shot from the top of the box.
In Underfell, the home team was shocked by the new Valerian champions, despite Zahara Santana scoring a first half chip goal on her debut with the club. Hunsen lacked a true center forward, but started Audra Jaakola in that position and focused on controlling the midfield. New signing Reina Toure, the younger sister of Milan, filled in for the injured Alysha Hakala on the wing and put in two shots from close to the net, beating her former Hawks teammate Destiny Bergran by her near post twice in the fiftieth and seventy fourth minutes. Underfell had bad morale from the end of last season, and Hunsen made them pay for it.
Now, Lily Cress will face her former team, and Milan Toure will face his sister, in the final of the eastern group, to decide who advances to the final to face the winner of the west.