Soccer Days!

April 11th

The games went on, even after monsoon type rains the day before. Austin's game was at 9am. It was cold and very, very wet. So many places on the field were saturated with puddles of deep water. The kids played well considering the field conditions. However, we lost our game 0-2. If the field wasn't as bad as it was, they may have beat us by a lot more, ...they were a great team. On the other hand the only 2 goals that were made, were as a result of the ball going between the legs of one of our goalies. Austin recived a nice compliment from the other coach. He was impressed with Austins goal keeping skills. Austin played mid-field and goalie.

Next was Gracie's game. We had to cancel our practices because of weather, so the kids had no practice before the game. It was a bit rough, but they played hard. Both teams scored a bunch, and it was a tied game in the 4th quarter, then this amazing kid on the other team was put in, and he scored 3 goals one right after the other, at the end of the game. But the kids had fun playing in the water and mud!

Waveney's game was the last one of the day. She plays on the same field Austin played on. By the time of her game, the field was mostly mud. I think kids lost shoes maybe 5 times during that game! We play Waveney at mid-field and tell her to play the whole field, ...because she can. She had so many close calls on scoring. I, as her coach, was about to lose it, because she either, didn't follow through, or kicked with the wrong foot, and she had so many opportunities for scores! Finally in the last 30 sec. of the game she scored! Whew! Someone said we had 9 points, but the best part was that 7 different kids were able to score during the game!

I love soccer season!