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Tax Time . . .
February 22, 2013
Diablo FC U11 girls soccer teams both take their NorCal Premier State Cup division championships
More fiscal cliff woes. Some employers were caught by the retroactive changes Congress made to 2012 taxes. An example is transportation benefits. As a result some employers are delaying issuing W-2’s for wages earned or are sending out form W-2c (C for corrected). Watch for those. To get your taxes prepared free contact the AARP program or the IRS sponsored VITA program. The VITA program is limited to those who have earnings of less than $51,000. The nearest location is 3540 Chestnut Avenue in Concord. Call 925-825-3099 for an appointment. For those with complicated taxes who are planning to change tax preparers be sure to take three to four years of tax returns to your appointment as you may have some suspended losses (for example on rental properties) that you can use to offset taxes owed in 2012. Some carryovers have been legislated in and then out, then in again and confusion in this area is common.
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State Cup competition is wrapping up for Northern California US Club Soccer under 9 through U13 teams and three young girls teams from Diablo FC have claimed division titles in the NorCal Premier competition that began at the end of last summer with seeding games. Most recently, the Diablo FC 01 girls of coach Miguel Gonzalez claimed the Premier 1 championship for U11 girls with a 4-1 victory over Ajax United Premier in the State Cup finale. The championship match in Turlock didn’t start too well for the local team as they gave up an unfortunate own goal to fall behind. That seemed to kick start the Diablo FC girls into action and goalkeeper Sophia Salimpour’s long punt downfield was converted into the tying goal by right forward Kelly Kern with a header. A corner kick by right back Brianna Murray was converted
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by Carissa Capinpin into the goahead goal and the 01 girls never looked back. Two other goals by striker Alexus Zandonella-Arasa capped the dominating performance on both sides of the ball by the DFC U11 girls premier team. In the quarterfinals Diablo FC 01 defeated Sonoma County Alliance 3-1 and then beat Odyssey 01 Red 2-1 in the semifinals. Their sister team Diablo FC 01 Blue won their State Cup Bronze 1 division in December. Clayton’s Jack Boeger coached the team to three consecutive shutout wins starting with a 3-0 victory over Walnut Creek Rampage. In the semi-finals El Dorado Strikers were on the short end of a 7-0 scoreline before 01 Blue capped their State Cup run with a 1-0 victory over Mustang Angels. Earlier in their first season together Diablo FC 01 Blue was a finalist at Cal Cup in Sacramento and champions at Summer Challenge. Diablo FC 00 girls of coach Lewis Woodward lost in the U12 quarterfinals of the NorCal State Cup Premier top flight to San Juan Lightning. The U13 Diablo FC 99 girls coached by Richard
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COACH MIGUEL GONZALEZ LED HIS DIABLO FC 01 TEAM to the Premier Division championship in the NorCal Premier State Cup earlier this month. Diablo FC 01 includes, bottom, goalkeeper Sophia Salimpour; front row from left, Carly Oshel, Natalia Leroux, Alexus Zandonella-Arasa, Allison Hair, Courtney Silva, Julia Betti, Brianna Murray; back row, coach Gonzalez, Sarah Smith, Darby Dresdow, Carissa Capinpin, Kelly Kern and assistant coach Aaron Silva.
Weiszmann were edged 1-0 by West Coast SC Wildfire in quarterfinals of the U13 State Cup State 2, second highest flight in the tournament.
Clayton lad helps St. John Vianney to CYO basketball title
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CARONDELET SENIOR MELANIE HINES of Clayton will be taking her soccer skills to Sonoma State this fall. She is one of over a dozen Diablo FC club players to make college commitments recently.
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Melanie Hines who will be off to Sonoma State. Hines is a former defensive player of the year at Carondelet and began playing soccer for the local competitive club at eight-years-old with Boeger. Among their Diablo FC teammates also signing NLI were Daisy Bonilla (UC Merced where Clayton’s own Megan Swann Atoigue is the head coach of the Bobcats), Brianna Rosselli (San Francisco State University), Linnea Wikander (UC San Diego) and Larissa Rodrigues (Holy Names University). Mackie Delorefice from Diablo FC 95 is going to be joining Boeger at Chico State. A few other Diablo FC 94 players, including Sofia Martinez, are still mulling over their choices. On the boys side, Diablo FC has a pair of players going to St. Mary’s College for coach Adam Cooper of Concord. De La Salle High goalkeeper Andrew Konstantino and his Diablo FC 95 teammate Nathan Grixti will be Gaels. Edgar Damian from Diablo FC 95 boys is headed to Cal State University Dominquez Hills while 95 teammate Mikey Guerrero of De La Salle is still making a decision. From the Diablo FC 94 boys
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Clayton resident Scott Tomaszewicz helped his undefeated St. John Vianney third grade basketball team to the West Diablo National Division CYO championship defeating Santa Marina of Orinda 29-17 in the title game. Tomaszewicz attends Mt. Diablo Elementary. His St. John Vianney squad went 12-0 on the season, winning every league and playoff game. He is a forward on the basketball team and also plays in Clayton Valley Little League Minor A as well as tennis at Heather Farm Park.
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