Great day of soccer for the girls. Wren’s team, the Fury, has taken all season to really come together, and they are really humming. They surprised us all with energy we’d never seen before and a 3-1 win in the first game. If you win, you keep playing, and the first half of the second game was still full steam ahead, with a 3-0 lead at the half. But unfortunately the fields are all very sloped, and while playing uphill, we let the other team’s big shooter take too many long downhill shots to even up the game right at the end of the buzzer. A 5 minute golden goal session was next (the first to score wins) – we won the right to play downhill but couldn’t pull off a score.   It was all nerves for everyone through a second 5 minute golden goal session – no score! The girls kept up right to the end, but finally had to give up after a 4-3 penalty-kick shootout.
Reiley’s team played hard, keeping the ball on the other team’s half for most of the game. They play their positions well, but the other team was playing mostly defensively and we couldn’t get through. A couple fast breaks for them got them a 2-1 win.
It was a great season, the girls all improved individually and the teams really learned to work together. Here’s to next year!
