Five games scheduled, four attended.
Matthew Soccer: The two back-to-back games conflicted with the first basketball game of the weekend, and given the playing-time issues of the last two or three weeks, this choice was easy for Suzanne. The team won 5-2 and 2-0 to pretty much seal up the league title. No goals, didn’t play on offense (I think), spent about half of each game in goal. From Suzanne’s texts, the pattern seemed to be the tried and true OnGoal philosophy, have Matthew on field at start and put him in goal at the end to preserve the lead. I think he spent more than half of the second game in goal and unlike other games was tested pretty frequently. Am glad he’s getting to play goalie; he likes it but it’s probably not where he wants to be when we get back to outdoor.
Matthew Bball: The team won without him 34-27 on Saturday. Sunday’s game was against Haslett and his best friend Henry….this game is the last ‘tough’ game the team would have before the playoffs.
(most often seen on a soccer field together)
And they struggled; down by six a couple of times before pulling away late to win by ten, 46-36.
No video will be posted here; Matthew, when he played, didn’t do much of anything offensively. At times, seemed reluctant to even dribble the ball. And then he didn’t play at all in the 2nd quarter and only 30 seconds of the fourth. This time the coach said after the game to the kids that he messed up playing time and sent out an email to the parents too…..and promising to ‘make it up’ in next weekend’s game.
Whatever. Glad he said it and emailed it. Not too excited about it otherwise. Wish Matthew had played more against Henry (who had a big game, 10 points I think…).
Cpher: Won 56-26. Took what looks to be about 8 shots and didn’t make one of them; fouled once and went to the line, didn’t make either of those either. So there will be no video here either.
