dobber family weekend update:
dobberjr had the first game and it was played on a field that appeared to be a former training ground for the Egyptian bomb defusing squad.
It was a game against the team that jr had just played with as a guest player 2 weeks ago. A great rivalry over the past couple of years. It was a shaky start that saw the Ninjas down 0-2 late in the first before a solid effort from 15 went off a defenders leg who was trying to clear the ball. The result was an own goal that pulled the ninjas to within one.
Early in the second the diablos scored a third and sloppy play by the ninjas appeared to have them doomed. Near the 50th minute (they play 2 30 min halves) one of our new players (we picked some twins in the offseason) scored his first goal as a ninja. It was a real piece of work and had the parents excited for things to come the rest of the year. 4 minutes later, the coach's boy (who is not fat and slow) had the equalizer on a thru ball. Shortly thereafter, dobber jr had his first real opportunity on a charge from the wing. After beating his man he appeared to be going in for a certain goal, but his shot went right at the goalie while the open net to either side taunted dobber jr. In the last minute dobber jr had one more opportunity from the 18. If was headed toward the lower corner but bent left and went right by the pole. The game ended in a sloppy 3-3 tie.
Dobberette's game was late in the afternoon. Ominous clouds hung over the field threatening rain which never came. The Lightning also appeared to not show up for the game and they, too found themselves down 0-2 midway through the first. But then a great and glorious thing happened. As the ball was being kicked around like a sack if potatoes in front of the other teams goal, the goalie thought the ball was going left but it got deflected to the right. Standing there, 4 yards from the goal, was dobberette, and she made slow work of the goal by barely rolling it to ths back of the net! 1-2! Lightning scored! Dobberette scored the first goal for the newly formed team! She had a couple more opportunities in the next 2 minutes, but her dad has evidently not spent enough time running drills in the back yard because her foot eye coordination leaves a lot to be desired! The Storm (opponent) scored another goal late in the first and it was 1-3 at half. The lightning scored early in the second and then again shortly after that and if was tied at three. With 5 minutes left, the lightning continued to strike and took the lead for the first time. The final nail came with 2 minutes left and the Lightning came away with a 5-3 win. I found out that our head coach is all about winning. I will update with stories if applicable. He is also a Jayhawk. I am one of the assistants. Ette's greatest improvements in this game were her understanding of staying between the ball and the goal on defense and her overall reaction to coaching instructions as the were being communicated. I was very proud of how hard she played.
At the start of her game, ette said, "Coach dobber, Mrsdobber said if I score a goal we'd have ice cream tonight." ( Mrsdobber doesn't understand that you can play an outstanding game of soccer without scoring a goal).
Anyway, after dinner we were scooping out ice cream and toddler dobber said, "can I have some candy in my ice cream?" I told him that we were out of candy, and he said, "dad-gum". We all laughed and I knew I'd share that with my gE buds. I also realized that toddler dobber needs to stop watching Cars movies or he is going to be a redneck.
Gonna win 'em all!
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