Big ups this July 4th Holiday to the Real Salt Lake U-17 Team, which began the defense of its SUM Cup title in fine fashion today across the Rockies at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. This year’s squad – which is split evenly between the RSL-Utah and RSL-Arizona camps – kicked off the third annual edition of the League’s showcase youth event with a gutsy 3-2 win over our neighbors from the North, Toronto FC.  After going down 2-0 midway through the first half, RSL used goals from Donny Toia, Jared Hanze and James Rogers to give the junior Claret-and-Cobalt a thrilling comeback win and a vital three points to kick off pool play.

The squad will have little rest over a busy Holiday weekend, first heading back to The DSG to take in tonight’s Colorado Rapids-Chicago Fire match before getting right back to it for game two in pool play tomorrow afternoon against the Houston Dynamo. Take the jump for all the match details…

RSL in the SUM Cup

Game One v. Toronto FC

RSL 3 : 2 TFC

Scoring Summary:

TFC – 11′

TFC – 26

RSL – Donny Toia (Tyler Conklin) 29

RSL – Jared Hanze (unassisted) 42

RSL – James Rogers (Donny Toia) 63

RSL U-17 Line-up:

GK – Matt Bersano

DEF – Graham Smith, Derek Boggs, Ian Palmer, Tyler Conklin

MF – Karson Payton, Phil Neuwirth, Maikon Orellano, Donny Toia

FW – Quincy Wento, James Rogers

Bench – Joe Chabrias, Carson Elliot, Jared Hanze, Phanuel Kavita, Dino Soto, Ricardo Velasco, Eric Venegas