More Soccer, What Else!!!

I spent last weekend and Tuesday night watching Victoria play soccer. Tournament was good, with all the teams being nearly equal. Well, all but one. There was a nasty team there from St. Louis. The girls held onto jerseys, arms, whatever they could....did body slams to our players, cussed up a storm, calling our girls nasty names....and where were the refs???? Good question....very lacking with the calls. In the game were we played this team, we had 2 girls end up with buckle fractures of their wrists. Now they are both playing with casts on for the next 6 weeks. As bad as that was, it didn't compare to the last game on Sunday. That is when hurricane Ike made his way through Cincinnati. The officials made the girls play the first 10 minutes of the game, even though trees had fallen around the park, the porta potties were blown over, the trash cans blew over spewing trash through the air and across the field. They could hardly open their eyes for the through ins, of which there were many since the wind just blew the ball off the field. On the way home, they were saying we were experiencing 60+ mph winds. Crazy I tell you! They finished the game with a penalty shoot out. The ref had to kneel beside the ball to try and block the wind. As soon as it would die down a little he would lean back, blow the whistle and make the girl kick the ball. What a lot of pressure for 12 year old girls.

On Tuesday, we played Perrysburg, who we had just beat 2-0 in tournament. Well, with one player out due to injury, one getting hurt during the game, 4 players coming directly from either cross country or volleyball, we didn't do so well. We ended up loosing 4-0.

On another note, Madalyn has become obsessed with dogs. She was at the neighbors house 4 times today, so she could walk their dog, Snickers. Sorry, Maddie, no dogs in our house anytime soon, just too busy!!!