Soccer: Lost 6-1. The ending to a miserable spring of soccer continues. Three games next weekend.
Lax Game 3 and 4: Wasn’t there, camera was with me, so, can only report the scores. We won 2-1 in the first game against Grand Blanc and 5-1 in the second. Seems very obvious to Suzanne that our team is missing a lot of our best players today; we are down 5 midfielders in the morning and I’m only bringing Matthew and one other kid (an attack) with me for the semi-finals and finals. Could be ugly.
Lax Game 5 (Semi-finals): We are the #1 seed, 4-0 and best goal differential (that’s what happens when you give up 5 goals in 3 games). So we play Canton in the semi-finals. Another Mom took a bunch of pictures, I’ll use hers for this post and use mine (I don’t have nearly as many) for a later wrap-up post…
You might notice that the field here is not as clean and immaculate as the field on Saturday….they really could have taken a lawnmower to these fields before the tournament!
And I will be honest; Canton was a better team. They passed the ball better, they played the game well. But, I’d say #16 there represents the tallest kid they have, and the kid in the distance there is a fair representation of the average team size…they were small.
and in a game where the refs were reluctant to call many penalties that favored us. Missing 4 midfielders (and I would guess our 3 top scorers) came back to haunt us this game; had a hard time generating any offense.
We don’t keep track of penalties like we do goals (and the goal number will drift into the past as the boys score more). But Cpher had his share of penalties last year and has done a good job, for the most part, of staying out of the box this year. That #30 above is doing a good job of trying to catch his brother. I don’t think he was sent off in this game, but, had a few calls against him, including one for the dreaded ‘warding’…
But, as always, I’ll say he played well. Definitely stepped up when he was on the field and we had more offensive pressure when his line was out there than at other times.
Defense played solid; only gave up a goal when we were a man down early…used their size and physicality to keep the other team at bay.
It’s tied 1-1, we head to sudden death overtime. And we have one rush upfield and score, and that’s that. Boys rush onto the field!
Game 6 (final): Lost, 7-1, to St. Hugo in the final.
Again, they were much better than us. And the refs called a much tighter game; seemed like an endless procession of players off the field. Matthew goes twice(!), once for slashing (deserved), once for tripping (not deserved…a very strange call). And our defense and goalie held the fort for the first half (think we were down 2-1) but the roof caved in early in the second.
End o’ tournament photo…..
