The 2009 edition of the Ina Kristiansen Memorial Cup concluded Sunday evening, June 7, with two Matanuska Soccer Club teams earning championship honors. In all, five of seven MSC boys teams moved onto the semifinal round, with United 92, 95 and 99 all falling there. The MSC United 00/01 boys also finished the tournament undefeated, though in the U10 bracket there was no knockout round to play.

On the girls side, MSC Polaris 99 finished group play in a three-way tie for first place, but was kept out of the championship round by a single goal in the tiebreakers.

In the U14 Boys division, MSC United 96 avenged an earlier loss to CISC Velocity 96B Blue, the defending state champions, by prevailing 2-1 in a tense, highly contested affair. MSC opened the scoring with Chris Olson getting on the end of a square ball played by James Nesbitt. Late in the game, CISC pegged the eventual champions back with a scrappy equalizer, but minutes later, Kyle Bolam beat two players on the edge of the box before being hacked down and earning a PK, which defender Harrison Menard cooly dispatched to provide the final margin of victory. Next up for the boys is Midnight Sun in Fairbanks, and then the Nike Crossfire Challenge in Redmond, WA.

In the late final, the MSC United 98 boys completed their domination of the U13 Boys division, taking the final game over CISC Velocity 97B Blue 4-0. Ben Sande opened the scoring early in the first half, and Dawson Knopp doubled the MSC lead before the break. In the second half it was more of the same, with Bailey Letherman and Sande again scoring for MSC. The defense, never under real threat, did the rest to earn their third clean sheet of the tournament. Though playing up a year, the MSC boys scored 27 goals over the course of the tournament, allowing only 1. Next up is is the Sounders FC Cup in Tukwila, WA, followed by a berth in the Super Group for the US Club Soccer Regional Championships in Burlington, WA.