This past weekend the girls played in the Kohl's Christmas Angel Tournament at Friendship Park. It was our 3rd year to play in this tournament, however, I use the term "play" loosely because last year most of the tournament got rained out. The girls really enjoy playing this tournament because instead of paying full tournament fees we pay half and then each player brings a $10 toy to donate to the Christmas Angel program. This year they placed our team in the top bracket for our age group. We were definitely the underdogs going into this thing. Our first game was against the Hammers, which happens to be the team that 3 of our players were on last year. The girls took a lot of flack for leaving and were nervous to play their old team. They really wanted to prove that the made the right choice so you can imagine how excited they were when we WON 1-0. Anna scored our one and only goal. Next we had to play the Inferno. This was the game I was nervous about. I am not very "fond" of their coach and this team ate us for lunch in indoor this summer. The Inferno are ranked 9th in the state (we are 17th). It was a tough game...well played by all, and at the end we tied 1-1. Anna has a friend at school who plays on this team. Anna scored the goal for our team and her friend scored for the other team. The best part of this game was that although we tied, because of the point system we knocked the Inferno out of the running for semi finals and we ended up taking first place in our bracket. On Sunday we played in the semi finals against Sereno, arguably one of the best clubs in the state. They got up on us 3-1 before the half and it looked like we were out of it. Somehow, a Christmas miracle I guess, our girls rallied and tied up the game in the last 6 minutes. I was seriously so excited I about peed myself. Because a semi final game can not end in a tie we had to go to a shoot out. We ended up losing the shootout and the girls got 3rd place overall. Not too bad considering we weren't expected to place. Inferno got 5th and the Hammers got 4th.
Out of or last 13 games we have 11 wins, 2 ties and no losses.
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