Thursday night was Angela’s league game, there were only 9 girls at the game, so there was a lot of room and running. Angela played goalie the first half and held the other team scoreless.
Here she is making one of her two saves.
She has a good drop kick and can get it down the field, on this one she got an assist on their second goal. They ended up winning 3-0.
Tonight was Claudia’s soccer game, she was playing goal in the first half. She had a shut out as her team jumped to a 3-0 lead.
Claudia wondering if it was raining.
Claudia making saves during practice.
The girls stretching before the game.
They won the game 3-0, they are now 4-1-1. Here is the one of the coaches running them through some drills.
We headed over to the school Sunday night to give Claudia some practice in goal. This week she has to play net for one half of her game.
Angela
One of the trees out back of the school. It looks like a pretty symmetrical tree, the goal will be to come back in each season and take a picture.
Claudia and Chloe.
Angela practicing her goalie skills.
Chloe turned 2 years old on Sunday. Hard to believe two years have gone by.
Angela and Claudia are well into their soccer seasons. The season got off to a soggy start with game cancellations due to the wet field conditions. Things have dried out and their teams are doing pretty good. Here are a few photos from Angela’s game on Thursday.
Angela is playing defence again this year. Earlier in the spring she played on the school co-ed soccer team. It was a cold wet day for the school tournament and it was the last set of games on the city fields for about two weeks. The city closed all fields due to the excess rain back in May.
Angela isn’t afraid to get in there and mix it up. Notice the girl on her team in the background pulling her hair out of her face. If you go back to the first picture above she’s doing the same thing.
After only winning one game last year, this year has been a little more enjoyable, Angela’s team is 2-0-2. Her coaches this year coached the winning team from last year.
On Thursday night Angela had her quarter-final game for soccer. Their team was 1-11 this season, they played every Wednesday night since May and their first win came in game eleven. For their first playoff game they played a team from the Thursday night teams, fortunately it is a random draw that is decided at the beginning of the season. They won the game 2-0. Next week they play a team they were unable to beat all season in the semi-final game. They played a really good game this week and that was without two of their better forwards.
Angela played defence for most of the season.
Over the course of the season she had a few spills and bruises, but kept on going.
She is getting better at chasing down the opponent and taking the ball away. Even the ones that are about two feet taller than her.
If they win this Thursday they play again on Saturday in the finals. Go Angela!
Claudia had her quarter final soccer game on Tuesday night, her team went 0-12 during the season. This being house league, everyone makes the playoffs and how you do in the regular season doesn’t determine who you meet in the playoffs. Her team had a few close games where they were either tied or leading late in the game and somehow it went the other way. Claudia started the season on defence, but was moved to forward and lately has been playing both positions. This was her night, her team won 4-1 and SHE SCORED 2 GOALS! I had to get the play by play via e-mail, as Angela and I could only watch about 20 minutes before having to leave for Angela’s practice. I don’t have any pictures but here are some from her previous game where she came close on a couple of occasions.
Way to go Claudia! The team they beat was from the Tuesday night teams, they do a cross-over of nights. We think the other Tuesday night team won their quarter-final, so she plays them this Tuesday, probably better they play a team they haven’t seen before.
Angela is also playing soccer this summer. Her season has started, but it is the same night as Guides. She only has one more meeting and then she will start. She tried out and made the Intermediate Co-ed soccer team at school. They didn’t have enough grade 7/8 girls, so they opened it up to the sixes. They had their one-day family of schools tournament on Thursday and they made it to the semi-finals before bowing out. They ended up tied for third out of 12 teams. Congratulations Angela!
Soccer season started last night with Claudia’s first game. After some initial confusion with her uniform and coach-less team, things came together for her first game.
Here is Claudia in some action shots.
Claudia is playing in the U10 age group, as you can see she is on the smaller size, but she wasn’t afraid of the ball.
This is Claudia’s first time playing organized soccer. She enjoyed it and played well.
