Another Saturday and 3 more soccer games today.  Alex had 2 games and they won both even without Matt playing.  Alex tried to give one of the games away as he made inbound passes to both Zach and Jeremy.  Zach scored on his accidental pass but Alex did come back and score a goal and have a great assist in the game to redeem himself.  Sam’s team once again lost, but Sam is getting much better at midfield and is getting back on defense much quicker too.  Sam had a couple of nice kicks today to save a couple of runs from the opposing team, but also missed a couple… still needs to watch the ball hit his foot.  🙂
  No Recreation Games next week as we have Alex’s Tournament to attend in Jacksonville – assuming they win on Friday they will have a Saturday Championship Game, otherwise just a conciliation round on Saturday.

Alex’s goal kick

Alex schooling Zach for once….

Alex had his last home game of the season tonight and they won handily, outscoring the opponent 9-1.  The team needed the win tonight as they suffered a big defeat on Monday night and because this was Senior Day (last home game for the Seniors).  Alex had 3 assists in the game and had some fantastic crosses that they couldn’t connect for goals (one bounced off the crossbar).  Next game is Monday in New Bern and the Tournament starts next Friday in Jacksonville.  After the game tonight, Alex went straight to basketball practice/open gym.  Tryouts for the basketball team will be sometime after the soccer tournament, but we are pretty sure Alex will make the team and we anticipate he will be getting additional playing time this year.

Another Saturday and two more soccer games.  Same outcome as last week as Alex’s team goes undefeated so far this season and Sam’s team goes winless.   Sam has improved a lot and is getting more aggressive on the pitch.  In Saturday’s game, Sam had another save – keeping the ball out of the box in what would have been a open shot against the goalie.  In addition, Sam took several goal kicks as they wanted the Keeper to stay in the goal.  Alex played well too and had several good crosses to set up some shots on goal, but no assists this week.  Alex’s friend, Matt, suffered a very mild concussion during the game as he took a hit to the head.  His parents took him to the emergency room later in the day and they told him he would have to stay off the field for the next week and miss the TCS games on Monday and Thursday.

Mom, Sam, Alex, Reid and Drew all went to clean up after the ECU football game today.  Luckily it was an early game so they were home by 6:30pm.  Quote of the day was when Mom pulled into the driveway with the boys and rolled down the window, “That was the most disgusting thing I have ever done!”  Unfortunately Alex has only earned $140 so far which means he still needs another $60 to meet the $200 minimum needed.  Looks like there will be at least one more cleanup this season.

  Another week of Recreation Soccer and Alex pulls in another victory over his friends Zak and Jeremy.   Alex had his friend Matt stay over again on Friday night as they had a 10am game.  After the game Matt, his brother Phillip and Devin all came over for pizza.
  Sam and his team lose another but are playing much better.  Sam had a good 1st half playing midfielder and he even saved a goal.  The second half he played defense but was a little lethargic on the field.

Alex’s friend Zac on his right and Matt is on his team in the blue.

Alex with his friend Jeremy.

What’s a sure sign that Fall has arrived…..
     you guessed it – footed pajamas (and they still fit)!

  First games of the Fall Recreation League soccer today and Alex had two games while Sam just had the 1 game.  Alex lost the first game 3-1 but won the second by a landslide as Alex had 3 goals and Matt had 2 goals.  Not only that, but he played Zac and Jeremy’s team.  They were missing a couple of players and had a stand-in goalie which didn’t help their cause any.  Zac did school Alex on several plays and then one of the girls schooled Alex as well.  Alex’s defense was that she played high school ball at Connely… the rest of the boys weren’t buying that though.  Alex also got tackled by one of the bigger girls on the other team.  🙂
  Sam played most of the first half as midfielder and played pretty well.  He made a couple of stops and  made a couple of good passes.  Sam did have a couple of ‘air kicks’ but he did hustle most of the half. The reason dad almost had a heart attack was because they played Sam at Keeper (that’s the goalie for all of the non-soccer people) the 2nd half.   Sam did let one get by him which proved to be the winning goal but it was a pretty good shot from close range.  Luckily he didn’t have any other chances for saves, but he did have a goal kick which he turned into a pretty nice pass.  Quote of the day – Dad: “where you scared,”  Sam:  “Yes,”  Dad: “why were you scared,”  Sam: “I was afraid the ball might hit me,” ….. after some discussion, Dad: “why else were you afraid?”  Sam:  “I thought I might get dirty.”    🙂

Trinity got back in the winning column with a win over GCA on Tuesday night.  It rained most of the game and was quite chilly – probably only in the low 60’s.  Mom and Dad were quite chilly standing on the sidelines.  Alex played a good game but didn’t get any shots on goal.  It was a close game up until the last few minutes when Matt took a beautiful shot from midfield.  The final score was 3-1.

Trinity lost it’s first soccer game today at home.  The boys played terrible and they were never really in the game – bad passing, too much dribbling and a general lack of good sense.  Alex didn’t really play up to par either, but we did get a couple of good photos and a short video.

Sam got some new shoes last week for his first week of soccer.  Mom got them on super clearance at Dick’s a few weeks ago.  Below is a photo of what they looked like before practice.  Since it had been raining quite a bit last week they definitely didn’t look like that when he came home.