our friday game

earlier today, our team had a game out at Oak Ridge. After successfully finding the field, we had team warm-ups and stretching, and got checked out by the refs. after the customary shingaurd/earring check, we were suprised to here him announce that no braclets were allowed.... including hair bands, string things, and the braclet i got at Niagra Falls! (green and light green) well, you cannot take those things off, so i found someone with shingaurd tape, and threw some over it. that way, it was taped to my wrist.... no ones finger coulda gotten in that thing to get broken if they had tried!

the rain started. of coarse! for the first few minutes of the game, it was raining pretty hard, but not pouring. that was all we needed, i got a pass in the corner around the 18 yard line, my hotspot. i had a shot that hit the upper cross bar at an angle so that it didnt go in, but it bounced right in front of the goal. thankfully, a defender on the other team go frantic in her attempts to clear it, and ended up handballing it. our right forward, Lauren, converted with ease. after that, it started raining pretty hard. lots of families retreated to cars, and watched in safty while we continued to play. we got another goal scored about 15 minutes into the first, by Lizzy Keane, the center-mid. very nice shot. now, it was getting frantic. both sides were resulting to even more physical play than usual, with lots of back pushing, shirt tugging, ankle kicking soccery goodness. unfortunatly, the ball rolled soooooo fast across that flat wet grass that we had trouble keeping up! you know how it is.... you feel weighed down by all the rain thats all over you, youre sliping and sliding, and your being pushed..... it makes for slow movement.

the game didnt last long though. no more than 20 minutes into it, we had to break for lightning, and after a while it was still lightning and thundering, so the ref called it off. :-( those kinds of games are my favorites.... nothing fancy, just plain, physical soccer.

so, after the game, the whole family, except trey, went to panaras to eat. i must have been quite a sight, sweaty, soaked, shivering, smelly, and in a white jersey with my socks, shingaurds, and cleats all still on! (it was not raining that hard back in turkey creek)

well, ive got the boys game tommorow at 9:30 *sigh* i guess i will be up early, plus my game tomorrow at 12, so i guess i should stop dwelling in the past on this game and get ready for my next one! blog tomorow about it!