Soccer Scores

We had 4 soccer games today and we came out only winning 1 game (sniff-sniff). Here is the brief version of the sports report today.

Quinn's CYS game was at 8am this morning. He told me on the way that he prepared to play this 1st place team by eating "2 Sweet Tarts this morning to get ready" for the big game. We lost 0-4. I guess he should have bumped up the Sweet Tarts some.

Madison's Flames game at 10:30am was in Warsaw, 30 miles away. They lost 0-1. It should have probably been a tie, 0-0, but somehow they scored a "dumb" goal. : ) She played very well though... the rearranged formation helped the defense a lot, just not our offense. The poor field condition didn't help.

Tony stayed back and coached Madison's CYS team at 9:30 without her, and 3 other Flames players that are on our team. He tried his best to get the time changed to a later time but without success. One of our girls sprained her ankle early on and so they played 6 on 8 most of the time and lost miserably, he thinks it was 1-9. Most of the time if you play a team without all their players you play the same number as they do. (6 on 6) It's not a rule but it's a respect type of thing. I guess the other coach didn't get the "gentleman's agreement" training...it actually talks about it in our rule book but it's not officially a rule. Not only did they play with more people but he also played his girls in their best spots for the whole game... the other unwritten rule is that when you are miserably beating a team you put your players in unfamiliar spots so that takes away some of their advantage. His team is in 1st place and obviously was afraid of our team... like we might come back and score 9 goals in the 4th quarter or something. OK, enough, but you can obviously tell how I feel about people that play without sportsmanship! I'm glad I wasn't there. I really hope we get them in the tournament. (insert evil snicker)

Quinn's Flames game was at 11:30 on our home field. He got there with 5 minutes to spare because apparently he had taken off his shin guards and left them at the CYS fields so Tony had to turn around and go back over there to get them. I'm sure that wasn't a pleasant truck to be in. According to Tony, Quinn hustled a lot and played very well. He had the assist to Nate and Nate scored our one goal. This was our only win today, 1-0. I wish I could have seen that but I was on the way back from Warsaw.

So, tonight we are getting ready to watch the Iowa game at 8pm. I hate to be a downer but I do know the odds aren't in our favor. I just hope it's not a thrashing.

It was an absolutely beautiful, gorgeous, perfect day weather-wise today. Madison is staying overnight with MacKenzie from her Flames team and we'll pick her up in the morning for church.

Later, Love, Leah