Season 13, Game 4: Goal 4

On a rare Tuesday night friendly against Durant in Atoka, we fall behind 3-0 in the first half. Then Emilio and Asdrubal work a magisterial combo that turns the tide. Emilio's shoe goes flying after his shot.

Minutes later, Emilio draws a foul, and sets up Sam with an indirect that narrows the score to 3-2 at halftime.

Unfortunately, we were not able to even the score in the second half.

Season 13, Game 3: Relentless

Coach Tyler sent Emilio back to the defensive end early in this match against division-leading Midwest City.

Emi did a good job of slamming the door on the possessions that came into his area.

This sequence of photos shows how one of their attackers got frustrated with Emi's stellar defense play and expressed that frustration with a trip.

To his credit, Emi just keep on playing. No foul was called.

Season 13, Game 2: Goal 3

Emi scored in the first minute of this game against Newcastle, which we ended up winning 5-2.

Season 13, Game 1: Goals 1 and 2

Emi starts as attacking midfielder in the Ada Soccer Club's co-ed U-16 first match of the year against Harrah. The match is played in the rain on the ECU soccer pitch. Emilio makes several excellent through passes to his forwards, but we are behind 2-0 when Coach Tyler calls him to the sideline to take a breather.

I expect that Emi will not see the field again until the second half, but with a few minutes remaining in the first, he goes back in, fields a throw-in, gets a pass back, dribbles past three defenders into the box, and gets off a shot under the left arm of the Harrah keeper. You can't actually see the end of the play very well in the video below because other players blocked my line of sight, but that's the first goal of the season. It was followed by a sloppy chest bump with Carl, that I did not catch.
 

One minute into the second half, Emilio runs down a through ball in the box, gets past the keeper and executes a deadly strike from an acute angle to tie the score, 2-2.
Sam is the first to congratulate Emi, and then Carl and Emi manage the chest bump they flubbed earlier in the game.

Twenty minutes into the second half, with the score 3-3, Tyler moves Emi back to defense, and I take some photos.

The game ends in a 3-3 tie, so we're undefeated!

The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Emilio finished reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes Treasury today. This text--which belonged to me when I was in junior high--includes 1 novel (The Hound of the Baskervilles) and 37 short stories. Before reading these, he read all 3 of the other Sherlock Holmes novels.

1. "The Adventure of the Empty House" (1903)
2. "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1905)
3. "The Adventure of the Second Stain" (1904)
4. "The Red-headed League" (1891)
5. "The Adventure of the Final Problem" (1893)

Earlier this summer, he read several Hercule Poirot mysteries by Agatha Christie (his favorites were: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The ABC Murders, and And Then There Were None), The #1 Ladies Detective Agency, Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters, Death of a Perfect Wife by M. C. Beaton, and Spinning Starlight by R. C. Lewis.

Summer Tuesday in OKC

Mini-golf? Check. Ocean's 8 at the Warren? Check. Earlywine Park walk? Check. Bowling? Check. Pizza in the Paseo district? Check. Successful Tuesday in OKC? Check.

Day Last: From Las Vegas, New Mexico to Ada

At Kabuki Romanza restaurant in Amarillo.