Soccer Tournament

I'm sure you're all dying to know the results of this weekend's U16 soccer tournament. The day began at 9 am with a game against Sparwood 1, which was the only team that ever beat us during the regular season (and only because their ref was clearly sleeping with someone on the Sparwood team... what an outrage). The Combat Wombats (that's our good ol Elkford team, in case I haven't told you that before) took out Sparwood 1 no problem. Next game was at 12:20 against Pincher Creek (yes, they're the ones with the new Wal-mart and they're pretty cocky because of it). Pincher Creek couldn't handle the Wombat Power and quickly (two 40 minute halves later) handed Elkford yet another victory. This brought us to the Gold Metal Match against Sparwood 2, the climax of our year. Going into this game we were all pretty confident that we would walk away with the gold. Perhaps too confident. The first goal of the game was by us... only it was on our own net (a slight defensive redirection gone wrong). Eventually we tied it up with another goal. Late in the second half we scored once again. 2-1, Elkford. Sparwood has yet to score their own goal. A few minutes before the end of the game, Sparwood gets their first REAL goal, tying the game at 2-2. This brought us to five minutes of overtime, which quickly disappeared. The goal metal match was to be decided by a shootout. Apparently it only makes sense for a team game to be concluded by putting all the hopes of winning on a single individual. Poor goal keepers. I won't bore you with the dramatic details of the shoot-out because in the end... we lost. Not to worry, though, we still got silver metals. I took a bunch of pictures throughout the tourney, the are uploaded into two galleries. Click here for soccer galley #1. Click here for soccer gallery #2. Here are a couple to whet your appetite: