Soccer, Soccer, Soccer
We had our first Saturday of soccer games today. Jake's team the Storm Riders had a dominant win over their opponents this afternoon. They don't keep score but I can tell you I stopped counting when it was eight to nothing. Jake is in first grade and he is playing in a league where the first and second graders play together. He has some pretty big second graders on his team who are pretty good players.
Jake got in the game and they rotated him around. He played hard and got involved in the action. He stuck up his nose at playing defense once when his coach asked him to go in at that position. We had to have a little talk after the game. Overall Jake did a great job keeping up with the older boys and making some good plays with the ball.
Max is a member of the u-9 Mechanicsburg Wildcats travel team. They played a great game but lost to the Hempfield Galaxy team today 5-2. We were up at 6:30 this morning to get to Hempfield for a 9:00 game.
In the first half Max played left wing and was involved in the action quite a bit. He played well but they only got one goal in the first half of the game and were down 5-1 at halftime.
In the second half of the game they held the Galaxy scoreless and added a goal themselves. Max has not played much goalie but did a good job shutting them down in the second half. He made a great stop on a hard struck ball at fairly close range. He caught the ball right at his belly. Had he only blocked the shot he would have likely given up a goal as he was surrounded. I was very nervous when he was playing goalie. Max would have a tendency to wander and early in the half the coach had to yell at him to stay in the goalie box. This will be a long, nerve-wracking season for me if he ends up being a regular part of the goalie rotation.
posted by The Pants @ 11:33 AM
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