8th Game of the Spring Season

last night, we made up one of our games (the friday night one that you were supposed to come to, sophie). we played at home, not our regular home though, it was our nicer home that was our home last season (did you follow that?!). it's a lot nicer than our other home, because it actually has grass on it, and not a strip of dirt/dust/mud (depending on the weather) down the middle, and patches of dirt/dust/mud all over it. did i mention the green boxes that stick up in the field that are supposed to make it better?? anyways, enough complaining, we played against the team we played at their field at night on turf!! :) that was a fun game!! :) so, we played that team at our 'fake home' field. it was really good, because we had 14 girls show up, and we have 19 on our team (even though 3 of them can't really play for various reasons). so, we only had 2 people who weren't there!! it was a pretty good game, although we totally dominated. we played basically 98% of the game in their half of the field. the score was 5-1, and the goal was totally my fault. katelyn got 2 goals, and ashlee, jamy, and emily got the other goals!! WOOP!! on their goal, katelyn had just gotten her 2nd goal, and they were restarting the game, and i was talking to our goalie, and i had no idea that they had started, so i turned around, and there were players dribbling the ball towards me!! so, they got past me, and then one of the girls got the ball on the end line next the the goal, and she shot, and it went in. i really should have been paying attention, though. if i had, they probably wouldn't have gotten to far. also, i should have pressured the girl before she took the shot. oh well, you learn from your mistakes!! :) and during the first half of the game, i kinda how should i say it, knocked someone over?? well as most of you probably know, i play center defence, sweeper, or the last line of defence (before the goalie) or whatever you want to call it, so basically, most goals are my fault. and/or i'm basically responsible for defence and telling everyone else what's going on on the field among other things. so, back to knocking the girl over. she was coming down the field, and i was running beside her, and i put my leg out to knock the ball away from her, except i kinda stepped on the ball instead of kicking it away, and she kept going and fell over my leg. people said that she fell pretty hard. ooppss. that's what you get if you have the ball, and your forward, and it's in my side. there are consequences to being on the other team, so sorry, but there are!! :) so, yea, that's what happened, i didn't get carded (the ref could have carded me, he has a grudge against me, because,long story short, when we were practicing inside during the winter, we were scrimmaging, and i slide tackled him, and took him down, so now he's got a grudge against me. so, i'm glad he didn't card me, although that would have been really biased, because it wasn't a foul that could have been carded!!), but the other team got a free kick, which is o.k., because it didn't really go anywhere. so, that's my story!! sorry i made it so long, congrats if you stuck with me through the whole thing!! so, we only have one more game left, this saturday (we're playing the team that's also undefeated, the one we tied against) and then next saturday, we have the play offs!! and we're 7-0-1, with 29 goals for and 5 goals against (which is a pretty good record for a team who only had 3 goals for last season!!) we're tied for first with the team we play this saturday, and we have to beat them or tie to be in first. they have 40 goals for and 9 goals against (which is insane). if we tie, the thing they go to next to determine who gets first is goals against, so we'd be first if we tie or win against them!! so, go my team!! (also, if you could pray for us for this saturday and next saturday, that would be awesome!! both will be hard games!!)