Yesterday, I spent a total of 6 hours at school. I arrived at 11 p.m., and left at 5 p.m...on a Saturday! This is because I am on both Varsity and JV girl's soccer, and I had to play in both games. Our coach, Coach Matt wanted us to come early so that we can mentally and physically prepare ourselves for the game against our rivals, U-High cubs. We sat on the steps for an about 45 mins, waiting for the field to be mowed while listening to pump-up music, painting our pinkies blue ("Pinky's Up" is our motto), and snacking on healthy, pre-game snacks like bananas and granola bars. Coach Matt even let us paint his pinky blue and told us if we go to state, we'd be able to paint all of them! Then, after we were mentally prepared, we put on our shinguards and cleats and headed out to the field. As we warmed up, our fan club was getting larger and nosier. By the time the game started, we had a total of about 25 student fans! As we played, they were handed out noise makers, which started a 20 minute controversy in the middle of the first half, between U-High's coach and ours and the refs. The U-High coach had complained that artificial noisemakers were illegal. Coach Matt and our Athletic director, proved that there was no such rule and our fan club continued on! We started out the game winning, and when U-High caught up to us, we got back at them. The tension was insane, and at the end of both matches, we were tied 3-3, so the game went into overtime. No points were scored in overtime, so we had to go into penalty kicks. EHS knights won the game, 5-3, with two more pk's than the cubs! We are now district champs!
After the victory of Varsity, I played for JV at 4 p.m. I guess the victory of the previous game gave the team and I stamina for the second one, because we won 1-0. I scored the only goal against U-High, and we were able to keep U-High's offense away from our goal. It was a beautiful, glorious day on the soccer field for all of us knights.
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