Our Football game on Monday was probably the best comeback ever by the Crazy 88's and to be a part of it was a fantastic feeling. For most of the game we were down about 12-14 points but slowly decreased their lead by the time 5 minute warning came up in the last half. At 5 minute warning both teams are allowed 4 plays each to get one last attempt of scoring. The score was 58-52 for them and they had first possession. After 4 nail biting downs we managed to stop them a few yards away from a touchdown and it was our go at it. Our first down brought us a quarter of the way up the field, our second down was incomplete and our 3rd down brought us to the halfway mark of the field. It was now or never, our 4th down was a hail mary into the endzone and was caught by Christian (Jacklyn's friend) and we had just tied it up!!!! We were already celebrating but then we still had a convert to complete. We decided to go for the much easier 1 pointer (rather than the 2 pointer) and get our W. Christian caught it again for a 59-58 win for the Crazy 88's!!!!!!! Woooohoooo!!!!! Usually being on the Crazy 88's means that you are usually on the losing side of a clincher but this time around we were on the winning side, and it felt damn good! Yeah that's right, it wasn't just good, it was damnnnnnnnnnnn good.
The very next evening it was the Crazy 88's weekly venture into soccer. As of late we have really done well and we went into this game with a 7-3 record. Which is spectacular because if you ask anyone after our first two games we thought we were going to be spanked each and every game. But with the addition of AJ to our line up and our increased skills in passing, defence, offense and aggresiveness we have managed to get 7 W's. However this night would prove to be fruitless. We played our heart out but started losing very early in the game when a kick from just over half sailed right into the net. Then a corner kick was headed in from a rebound and the last goal was a pass that shouldn't have gotten through. The first two goals were pretty flukey and the first one was assisted by the Sun being in our eyes. The second goal was pretty flukey as well, and the well the third one was pretty flukey too as the pass went through 2 sets of legs to find the person waiting in front of the net that I should have been covering, so I feel pretty bad about it. The team we played were a cheap and hardcore bunch. They would tell us to take it easy if we nudged them but then they would do the exact same thing to us. They would run over our girls and they even pulled up their goalie into our crease during corner kicks (even though they would be winning by 3 goals already). After the game I was still pretty worked up about it, and realized one thing about it after. I hate playing defence. I think I like playing mid-field the most.
Anyways that's good for now. Way to go Crazy 88's! Keep up the effort!
pieces,
Alex.
Go Crazy 88's!!!!!
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