Season Nine, Game Five: Strong Headwinds

Aunt Carolyn drove up with Mari, Nina, and Pablo in time to watch the second game of the tournament, which did not start until 5:30 in the afternoon (Emi spent the whole day with Coach Tyler and Sam watching other soccer games). That game was against the toughest team in the tournament. We lost 1-3, but the one goal we scored was the first their keeper had given up on the season. We got points for scoring on them, so we finished the first day of the tournament in second place.

Season Nine, Game Four: First Tournament, Third Goal!

Emi's coach and his son Sam picked Emilio up at 6 a.m. on Saturday, the 9th to drive him to Midwest City (an eastern suburb of OK City) for Emilio's first soccer tournament.  Mari stayed in Ada with Nina and Pablo, who had their own soccer game at noon, and I was in Arkansas accompanying ECU students to an Honors Conference.

When Emi's soccer schedule came out, he was not supposed to play until Sunday afternoon in Ada, which would have given me time to drive by from Arkansas to see him, but the game was canceled a week before so that the team could play in the tournament. I would much rather have gone to the tournament than the Honors conference.

Fortunately, some of the other parents posted photos and boxscore updates of the game on Facebook.

Facebook posts from another teammate's Mom report that eight minutes in, Emilio scored the first goal of the game--his third of the season.

We went into halftime leading 3-1.

In the second half, Emi had two assists, and we ended up winning 8-1.

One v. Three

Emi loved the challenge of taking on three.