Golden Goals

Soccer season has come to a close.  The season ending tournament for the U10 kids was played this weekend.  Juliet played 3 games on Saturday in beautiful weather.  We had nearly a 2 hour break in between two of the games and instead of going home, we just stayed at the field, picnicked and enjoyed the weather.  It was a great day!

The girls tied two games and won the last one.  It was intense on the sidelines and I loved every minute of the day!

Sunday was a different story.  Soccer in the RAIN.  Not just a little rain, but POURING rain with a cold wind!  We invested in an Easy Up just in time too! We were able to stay dry as spectators, but Jules....not so much!

She played like an animal non the less!

 One on five!

But they held the other team (which was undefeated throughout the season) to only a 2-1 win.  This game was supposed to be a full length game since it was the semi-finals, but the refs messed up and only had them play a 30 minute game.  I think we would have taken them down had it been a full length game! 

But Juliet was playing against her good friend, Emily and it was hard for Jules to compete against her without smiling!  

They lost that game, and we came back for the second game of the day.  The final game for 3rd place ended in a tie.  5 minutes of overtime only lead to nearly 4 missed goal attempts by Jules' team.  5 more minutes of overtime did not change the score.  So they went to Golden Goals (aka Sudden Death) This is when each team takes 5 goal shots alternating back and forth.  The team with the most goals wins.  The coach chose Juliet as their best goalie and stuck her with the pressure of trying to block all 5 goals.  Talk about a near nervous breakdown.....for ME not her!  

She was poised and ready to take on the other team with no hesitation.  

First kick - Goal.

Second kick - off the pole for a Goal.

  Third kick - BLOCKED!!!  

 Fourth kick - BLOCKED!!!

  Fifth kick - missed.  

Man, the pressure was intense!  The came away from a season of more losses than wins and ended up taking 4th place in the tourney.  4th out of 10 teams is still pretty darn good.  

Another successful year of soccer!  Wonder what U12 will be like?!