Ho Hum...another game another win....

Well, we finally got to play another game last night. This was the game for week G, but was only our third game. It almost didn't happen! Two days ago the opposing coach, who had agreed to moving this game to a weeknight, called our head coach to say that he probably wouldn't have enough players. Our coach convinced him that we'd rather play shorthanded too than to have to schedule yet another make up game. He said he would be able to bring 10, so we agreed to play with 10. When he showed up he only had 9 players and while we could have dropped down to 9, we felt it wasn't fair for our kids to have to sit more due to the poor planning of the other coach, so we stuck to our word and played 10. We started out slowly as we shook the rust off and adjusted to playing with one less player. The other team had a few opportunities until our kids realized that these guys were for real and weren't gonna just roll over and play dead.

We finally broke through for a goal about 10 minutes or so into the game. North Hunterdon kept it close for the rest of the first half. We finally broke through for a second goal just before the end of the half which helped ease a lot of tension on our sideline. In the second half we really began to pull away as the other team wore down from their lack of players, the thickness of our grass and the size of our field. We kept rolling players in and out so that no one was too tired. When the final whistle blew we had a 5-0 victory and our second clean sheet of the season.

The biggest news happened on the parents side of the field however. Our goalkeeper's mom had a severe asthamtic attack. The fast action of a few of the parents (who included doctors, nurses, fellow asthma sufferers and other health care professionals) prevented an even worse situation. The local rescue squad was called out to make sure she was okay, but she refused treatment and spent the rest of the game in her car. The parents were also smart enough to screen most of the happenings from our goalkeeper so he didn't see what was going on while he played.

We play this same team on Sunday and warned our kids that it likely won't go the same way, since they will have their full squad and we will be missing two of our key players.

Until next time,