Petoskey Soccer Invitational 1998 Photo Gallery I

While Petoskey teams did not make any of the finals in their own tournament, they finished first as terrific ambassadors for their beautiful community.

There seemed to be an ample measure of both Fun and Games at this year’s tournament. U-11 Boys GSSC Vipers received the Most Outstanding Award-for their parade costume- -one of three special awards for Saturday night's Parade of Teams.

While most the teams are from Michigan, the tournament does attract Canadian teams and this year had one team from South Bend.

The new Petoskey waterfront saw its share of soccer shirts this weekend as out of town visitors had a chance to visit one of America’s hottest designations. Bay Harbor, a new golf and boating community was featured prominently in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. Petoskey’s new townscape gives it the appearance of being both old and new.

Jim Ehrnst and Ginny Nelson- Lets give a nice cyberhand to these two wonderful people. Once again the tournament went off like clockwork. They should be building a statue somewhere for these two.

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Peter Fitzsimons, one of the many outstanding referees for the tournament, also represented one of the tournament sponsors. Peter is the Executive Director of the Boyne, Petoskey and Harbor Springs Convention and Tourism Bureau. The referees were outstanding again this year.