Last night was the big Boys vs. Girls Soccer Rematch. This featured Corwin’s team vs. Mara’s team. I was expecting our babysitter Christi but she was a no show, along with Anwen.
It was a good game, with the girls making the first score, followed by two scores by the boys, then a tieing score by the girls in the first half. There was a lot of good game, plenty of passing and close calls at the goal.
The girls started to fade in the second half. Only 11 of them showed up, so they had no substitutes at all. The boys had one substitute in the first half, but two of the faster players showed up at half time to fuel a fresh offense and provide three substitutes. The girls held out for a quarter or so but around the start fourth quarter the boys scored three goals fairly rapidly to seal the final score at 5-2. The girls had several very close shots at the boy’s goal but didn’t quite make it in. The boys had one that, as far as I could tell, literally bounced off the top bar of the goal and landed just short of the goal line, having bounced off the ground behind the goalie. The boys had to work for their victory, which was a good thing.
On the other hand, the girls had cool looking team shirts. They must have got the sizes wrong, though, because almost every girl had pulled out a section of the shirt near the bottom and put an elastic band around it, presumably to tighten up the bottom hem. Or maybe to look like little bunny tails. I guess I’ll find out in 6 years or so when Alice is that age.
Also, the boys had a ringer — a boy named Eric, who we referred to as the “Anti-JackP” because he was so much like Jack, but Evil, because he played for another team. He plays in the serious soccer league now, with Jack, actually. His sister was playing on the girls team, and there was at least one other brother / sister pair on the field. The best interaction was Eric’s sister trying to psyche him out after a play with “Eric, I love you”.
After the game the boys’ team and parental units had a nice picnic.