It was an amazing night last night..... so I go into last night's soccer game thinking that the team that beat us last week, the Clash, is tied with the team we're playing today, the Lawyers, for first place....
but actually, the Clash had a bunch of losses.... we had two losses, and the Lawyers only have one loss.... we beat them earlier in the season because we played an almost perfect game....
I'm talking before hand, trying to get the team mentally prepared for the situation because in the past, we haven't done an awesome job of rising to the situation.
So they score 4 quick goals on us... we're down 4-0 just a few minutes into the first half.....they're pretty much dominating us. We're battling but on our heels. We stayed with it though.... Towards the end of the first half, we finally score... 4-1... score again... 4-2.... and then Allison scores with
like a minute left in the first half.... girls goals are worth 2... so that's 4-4 going into the half.... we're talking about how intensity is good.... how we haven't given up yet... how we're battling all the way to the end.... We talked about how we have to come out in the second half with the same energy...
So.... 5 seconds into the second half... they score.... 5-4....we're dejected but still fighting.... a few minutes later they get a breakaway with a girl at the end with a nice shot..... we're down 7-4 a third of the way through the second half.... we're battling..... we score 7-5.... we're passing better.... we score again 7-6... it's really intense now.....we've got a ton of momentum....I can't quite remember how it happened but I think they scored 2 quick ones, or a girl scored but we were down 9-6 about half way through..... we're playing sweet though.... we score 2 quick goals.... we're down 9-8..... it's a frenzy, people are screaming, the bench is jumping, people are supportive and subbing well.... finally a flurry in front of the other goal results in Anna (different Anna) putting it away.... we're up 10-9 with 6 minutes!.... but it doesn't feel like it because the other team is now frantic.... we're passing and trying to spread the field.... Allison steals the ball at the top..... the keeper misjudges her and she puts it left footed in the lower left..... we're up 12-9 with 3 minutes to go..... they're running around very hard... everyone's tired.... we go into ball control mode.... having chances to advance but pulling it back and building out of the defense..... we score again with 1:30 to go.... 13-9..... the buzzer sounds and we're all so happy.... we clapped and smiled and talked about the game and I went and got our championship t-shirts.... (if you tie for first, both teams get t-shirts)....
Drove home to catch the end of the game and the Pistons are methodically coaxing Reggie to move on to retirement..... earlier that night Annalisa cooked this awesome Pesto pasta dish, and Isaiah was all smiles and giggles for some reason..... it was awesome.....

Few things of note:
Connie Cheung has done an awesome job of stepping into a defense postion when we needed her to
Our normal keeper Kris Benda tore his miniscus and Philippe had to step in and did awesome
Calvin Cheung played sweet and was strong and intense and hopefully tired