there has not been any birdwatching for a while
tonight we had another thriller at the fieldhouse. our favorite HOCs pulled off a victory without needing the assistance of a forfeit! there was a 2 week break from HOC news, and for this i apologize, because i know your faces were all turning blue from holding your breath in anticipation. but last week was spring break, and the week before i failed the team by not attending. they lost 3-1 but the important part was that they got the token 1 goal.
tonight however we took that token goal and multiplied it by 3! we took the lead going into the half with a goal by our all star rachael, who has scored pretty much every one of our goals this season.
they fought back and tied it in the beginning of the second half, and so rachael was like oh that is no good, so she scored again, so now it is 2-1 us. then peter is like oh this scoring buisness looks fun, so he scores a safety goal to make it 3-1. we let them score another goal so they dont feel as bad so it is 3-2. and that is how it ends. and for those of you keeping track of our record, we are at 2-2-1 so we are sitting at a .500 record, which is what we need to go to the playoffs.
lets take a look at the x-factors to the game:
1) i wore some comfy reeboks, rather than my no cushion converse all-stars
2) we had only one sub, and towards the middle of the second half. dave number 2 rehurt his ankle and so we had no subs. this forced good passing so that we would not get tired.
3) i ate sloppy joes before the game. that is actually an anti-x-factor. the point is joe our goalkeeper was not sloppy. he slurped up that ball (except those 2 times).
4) rachael is awesome and makes all the players on the other team look silly.
5) the game was at 11.15 so we had plenty of time to get ready mentally.
6) the other team had a guy that got super pissed all the time, and that doesnt help them. he didnt even do the exchange handshake thing at the end of the game.
7) we scored more than our token one goal, and more importantly more than the other team.
and in other news, i got my street fighter game today. so i am going to play that now, even though i have work in 7 hours.