On Friday, the boys varsity soccer team for our school played U High. It was a close game that went all the way through regular time and two over times with the scored still tied at 0-0. U High is ranked #6 and that was the closest we have come to beating them in a long time. We lost in penalty kicks, which does not really decide who played better or who deserved the win more, which was obviously us, but the only thing that matters is that they won. It will not happen again, but the important part about this weekend is the girls' game the following day.
Yesterday, Saturday the 28th, the girls played U High and I witnessed some of the worst referring I have ever seen in my life. We scored two goals, giving us the 2-0 lead, but the Cubs came back to tie the score at 2-2 off of the two worst penalty kick calls I have ever seen. One time Moira, the goalie, came out for a 50/50 ball and hit someone and they both fell and she got the call. So the girl stepped up and took the penalty kick and scored, making the score 2-1. The second penalty kick was awarded to the Cubs when Caroline Goodner supposedly fouled some girl. It was so obvious that she was going for the ball and it is completely legal to lean into the other player when you are both going for it. Again, they both fell, and the Cubs were given the penalty kick again. The same girl stepped up again and scored, making it 2-2. They scored again off of a good through ball about twenty minutes later, giving U High a 2-3 lead over us. The score remained like that almost to the end of the game, but I had this strange feeling that they were not going to win. I knew the girls would pull it off. Keely Davis scored her second goal of the match off of a free kick about 18-19 yards away. The shot deflected off of a U High defender and skipped past the goalie's outstretched hands into the side of the goal. A 3-3 tie was how the game lasted for the remainder of regular time, and through the two overtime periods.
Penalty kicks were fun to watch. We only had one miss, which was still a very good shot but its hard to do penalty kicks after a full match of soccer, especially after playing with so much intensity against a good team. Moira had been scored on by two penalty kicks in the regular time by the same person, so when she stepped up a third time she knew what to do. Moira had two saves and helped the team tremendously. Mary Heintz took the last penalty kick for the Knights and sealed the victory as the whole team stormed the field, celebrating their victory. It was the best match to watch, and I feel satisfied that they beat the school that we should have beaten too. In a sense, I feel like we won this year.
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