Off and Running

Our soccer season is now under way with games last night and more to be played today. I was quite happy in my coaching debut with the teams effort, only the result stung a little. We trailed 1-0 after one half of play, and some of that was marred by players having to be disciplined for missing practices, and 2 had less playing time due to injuries. In the second half though, we came to life. We got a goal from our midfielder Morgan who punched it right past the goal keeper as she got all alone in front of the net. It was quite interesting to watch, because since she is so young, she is also quite short, and one of the defenders had to have been over 6'5" tall, and she is maybe 4 feet tall. She never did once back down to any of them though, and it was cool she got to score our first goal of the season. We actually led 2-1 in the second half, but gave up 2 goals, one with a minute to go in the game to end up with the loss 3-2. But hey, a young team with only four 8th graders on it, and the rest are all 7th graders played with a JV team from a AA school that maybe had two eighth graders on it and went up to juniors, I was quite proud of the kids, although I'd have been quite excited with a draw in the game, it wasn't meant to be this time.

In comparison, I didn't think the varsity was too bad, but they didn't have the success moving the ball the JV did. A couple of defensive lapses and we lose 3-1. Today is a new day to redeem ourselves though, upcoming morning game to finish off the quick 2 game home stand before heading west river for the holiday weekend.