Windup Results in New Chaos Name!

After a rousing 1 hour practice, complete with dogs and coach, the Chaos soccer team got together for much fun and a short, masterful meeting of the minds! Not only did we discuss fees, and fees and fees, we also discussed names, logos, numbers, old games, playoffs, danceoffs, weather, news, progress, fall backs, setbacks, halfbacks, reeboks, runs, ruins, rules, red cards, yellow cards, blue cards, decks of cards, decks, jocks, jokes, jokers, why not to go to the bathroom, where to go to the bathroom, how to make money going to the bathroom, and our new name ...... Masters of Chaos! MOC!
Lila drove home and watched as the car behind her got pulled over by the cops and the car in front of her got pulled over by the cops. She happily drove past them thinking of how lucky she was that she opted for tea after an evening of much drinks and laughter.

Thinking of you Jen

Hey all,

This one is for Jennifer....Anna

Many Missing Mids Shootouts Shutout Sheesh!

The reports are in! Two views of the game agree that it was a repeat performed of the first playoff game. Here's what Linda said:
".... we were up 2 -0 until about half-way through the second half when Coreen Franke scored, then literally seconds before the end of the game Coreen got past us again, scored, and tied it up sending us into another shoot-out. We couldn’t believe it!
The firing squad this time consisted of Colleen, Kirsten, myself, Jane E. and Janet. Jane had a fantastic shot and scored, the rest of us didn’t score but at least had shots on the net, stopped by the keeper. Fortunately, the wildcats couldn’t even hit the net – Janet had one great save and the rest of their shots were wide – so Chaos emerged victorious!
I see on the website and in the paper today, the score was reported as 1 – 0 with Kirsten scoring the goal! Janet got credit for a shut-out. They didn’t even report the goals scored in the actual game – I don’t know if that ref knows what he’s doing."
Here's what Jane said:
"...Certainly the midfield situation was serious - especially when the only regular midfielder (Kirsten) went into goal for the second half. We actually covered that quite well - Linda and Jane E shared with Kirsten in the first half and when we went down to 2 in the second half it was Lori and Jane E...(not sure if Lori realized it but Jane E took her regular 2 minute shifts and Lori took the place of the other 2 players by playing for 4 minutes at a time - worked well for everyone!).

The forwards played well, chasing every ball and kept working until we had a commanding 2 goal lead. I think the real story of the game was the potentially career threatening injury suffered by our most experienced defender (Anna) - don't worry - like her idol Rooney she'll be back next week. After Anna was stretchered off (ok - after Anna decided she had played her last shift) we fell apart, our 2-0 lead evaporated and we ended up back in a shootout ... sound familiar?
Fortunately we learned from our experience last week and all of our shooters were able to put the ball on the net and at least make the keeper move to save it. North Ridge's inexperience showed as they peppered the back wall with their shots making Janet look really good. It was a glorious victory, made sweeter by having Jen back in the line-up and well-deserving of the 2 big pitchers of beer it spawned.

So there you have it!

Where Was I??? 1-0 Score Over Wildcats

Lila missed the playoff game! While Sara took great pains to remind everyone of place and time while she was away, and Linda tried to make goalie arrangements, Lila put the game on her calendar and looked at it at 8:45 pm! If Sara, Lila and Jane were away, was Kirsten the main mid??
Blog update is needed!! Pictures are needed. Any and all viewpoints will be posted.

Ecplise Shoots out our chances - Chaos Deflated

How did we take a 2 goal lead, end in a tie, tie in shootouts and then lose in sudden-death shootouts??
Easy - Lila lost focus! Lila played a long last shift, thought she had to stay on so as to be 1 of the 5 players in the shoot out, did not score in the last 30 seconds like she was supposed to, and then shot too high in the shootouts.

The only consolation was that had she scored a goal, she would be getting all the attention from the boytoy at the bar. Instead Anna got the attention. Lia got some good proof on the camera and sent it in to the blog. Thanks, Lia, this makes me feel so much better.

Next game will be better!