Before the boys and I headed south for the break we completed the sporting events for 2011; Christopher had a basketball game and Matthew had an indoor soccer game. Matthew had a basketball game on Saturday night (6:20 start) but since the plan was to be deep in Indiana at that point we opted out (happily, they won without him).
Cpher: As predicted, we blew Owosso out; 56-5. The running clock starts when you get up by 20; we were there mid-way through the second quarter. Cpher had been complaining in the morning of stomach pains, and I don’t know if that was it, or something else, but, he just wasn’t to active in the first half (and he played a lot!…..way more than half). Owosso was not big and even the disinterested Cpher still picked up a gaggle of rebounds.
Clicking on the picture will take you to the video at the team website; this is from the third quarter, and if you go to the 2:00 minute mark you can see the Cpher highlights for the day…..he gets fouled taking a shot and goes to the line (makes 1 of 2) and then later on makes a basket. Finishes with three points. The next two games after the New Year are also against weaker teams so the blowouts will probably continue.
Matthew: The first indoor game of Session 2; a team from Kalamazoo came up to Lansing and played us and another travel team from the region. They were good…and we ended up with a 5-5 tie.
Matthew scored in the first half; another free kick from way out that he put between the goalie’s arms and the top of the goal. In the second half he trotted out there with the goalie gloves and jersey on…..Mom goes “oh no!”….
The game was 3-3 at the half, so, Matthew gave up two goals but I thought he played really well and am sure that he’ll be playing more goalie in Session 2 (one of the regular goalies for our team isn’t playing this time around). He had really long goal kicks and made some spectacular saves; one time he jumped up to stop the kind of goal that was scored on him…..threw up a hand and just deflected the ball high; another time he stopped the ball and gave up the rebound and made a heck of a save to stop the rebound shot.
