We had two soccer games in the last week: one Wednesday and one this morning.
Corwin is still enjoying the games and throwing himeself into it. I didn’t realize he had a game Wednesday (normally games are just on Saturdays), so he didn’t have his game shirt. So he spent a lot of time at goalie (since you have to wear a red penny then anyway). But that is ok with Corwin. He is more of a defensive guy than an offensive one. He made several excellent saves. The other team was quite agressive at the goal, but they only got one goal on Corwin.
The game Wednesday was closer than the final score would indicate. The Wiley team lost 1 to a lot more than 1. But the ball was in play all over the court. It was just that the other team was a bit more agressive about trying to make some shots.
The Wiley team seemed to take the need for agression to heart and came out with both barrels blazing this morning. Corwin started playing offensive, but then he took a ball in the chest and had to sit out for a while. It couldn’t have been too bad because he was kicking the ball with another sidelined player after a couple minutes. He played goalie for much of the rest of the game and had a couple of excellent saves. He also managed to fling the ball quite far out on a couple of his throw ins.
The coach’s son, Jack, was a one-boy offensive machine. He drove the ball down to the opponent’s goal several times, dodging yellow shirts with great agility. Unfortunately, one of the yellow defensive folks would ultimately slow him down enough so the goalie could strip the ball. Finally on one of these drives, the ball made it in either from Jack or by a rebound from one of the other players.
Josh, another offensive player, also had some excellent drives. He was enjoying himself so much he did a little happy dance on the last player change. The game ended in a tie one to one.