Even when we're short on players, Our team goes marching on, on on!

Poor Andy Bean. We won our first game without getting a goal from him, but he scored brilliant goals in both of the games that we lost. He's been a great asset to us. However, he commented to me in the lounge, probably half-jokingly, that he's not going to score any more goals because it seems to have a detrimental effect on the team.

He won't be joking about that after he hears about today's result.

We took the field and held the opponents to a single goal (which was quite a good shot, I must admit), and scored three of our own, to win a 3-1 decision. Omar scored twice, and frankly could have had at least two others, if not for accidentally touching the ball with his plant foot before shooting. Billy also neatly tucked away a penalty kick after the opposing goalie decided the only way he could stop him was to wrap up his legs and bring him down from behind. Other than the goal we gave up, we had no REAL threats against us to speak of, other than a penalty kick we yielded after an accidental hand-ball in the box. Ariel stared down the shooter, and guessed correctly and the following resulted....



So clearly, our good form today was because Andy wasn't there, right?

Wrong.

Not only could we have played better with him, we were missing a lot of people that could have helped us a lot, particularly on the girls' side. Some real unsung heroes this game were Kelsy, Kadiatou, Katie Forrest, and Sarah. They were real troopers and patrolled the field and did really well, despite not being able to sub off very often.

Now, we sit and wait until we find out when we're scheduled to play for the tourney. And we hope that it's on a day/night that we can all make it to. Thanks everyone. It's been a real pleasure playing with all of you.

One more thing, the team T-Shirts are in! I think they look good and I wore mine today at the game. I have the rest at my house, if you didn't pick yours up, let me know and I'll bring it to you at school.