The girls soccer season came to an end on Saturday, with the goofy playoff day. Although it is house league and they play 13 games through the regular season, when it comes to the playoffs it means nothing. The playoff schedule is determined by a coin flip or random draw.

The girls Purple Team finished in first place with an 8-3-1 record. Rather than play the 4th (last) place team in the first game of the playoffs, they faced the 2nd place team. Our team had 12 players and the other team barely had the minimum 7 players (the game was almost forfeited). In the end with only 7 players, it opens up the field and opportunities for lucky bounces. Add in some incompetent linesman (U19 Girls playoffs and they assign someone who has been doing it less than a year?? Maybe U9 but not U19).

It was a close game that the other team won 1-0, but not without some controversy. The girls played well, Claudia played goal all season, much to the appreciation of her teammates, she went down a couple of times in the last two games after getting run over and I don’t think there would have been many volunteers raising their hands to take over (other than her sister).

Here is Angela receiving her Regular Season 1st place trophy and a special 35th anniversary of the North Mississauga Soccer Club participant medal.

Claudia receiving her hardware. This is the second time Claudia has had Coach Paul and Coach Dean, last time they didn’t do as well. As Angela told them, they were good coaches who “coached” them, unlike some who just show up every week to stand on the sidelines.

Angela awarding the coaches with their medals. Afterwards, they said it was the first time the players have done that.

The girls with their bling. It was the only time they played on the same team and they finished tops at the end of the season. This is the end of Angela’s house league career, she can play in the Women’s Sunday night league if she wants to continue. Claudia still has two years left. Sorry for the blurry photo, at some point my focusing switch got move to manual from auto-focus.

The girls soccer season is almost done, tonight was their second last game, followed by playoffs on August 12th. This is Angela’s last year of house league. It has been a good year for their team, they are in first place.

Claudia has played goal all season.

The other team scored the first goal, but the girls team quickly tied it up and then added another quick one.

Claudia has really improved her kicking this season.

Towards the end of the game, Angela played forward, and she scored a goal.

It was only the second goal of her soccer career.

Here she is celebrating with her sister.

Their team won 6-1.

Claudia has only allowed 12 goals in 12 games this season.

Angela taking a rest after her goal.