Soccer season is here

This weekend saw the first 2 games of the YMCA soccer season down here. Paige played Friday evening and Emma had a game this morning. Paige's team did really well and had the ball most of the game, but they couldn't manage to score and ended up losing 1-0. Paige had the bad luck to be the goalie when the other team scored, but it wasn't all her fault... The players Melissa had tagged to play defense kind of zoned out and the other team just ran past them so it was just them against Paige! Oh, well... She had a great game once she got out of the goal. Last time she played soccer she wasn't too into it and just stood around, but she has been enjoying the practices and was really good during the game. She went after the ball a lot, which is something she didn't do last season.

Emma's team has a bunch of the same players that she played with on the fall season, which was when her team went undefeated. They're off to strong start this year with a 2-0 win in their first game. Ian scored and then Noah put one in to seal it. Emma had a good game as well with a couple of good breakaways. Her team TOTALLY dominated the other team. Those poor kids didn't even really get a chance to score... And they were all dog tired. The opposing team only had 3 substitutes and the kids are playing 7-on-7 on a MUCH bigger field than last year. They're really having to run this season.

Em ready to kick off.


Heading down the field.


Em concentrating.


Paige practicing before the game.


Warming up to play goalie for the first quarter.


Look at that hair fly!


She's really getting into it this year, so it's nice to see her chasing down the ball like this.