Game 5 - October 3, 2009

The boys were on FIRE today. Coming off of a scrimmage yesterday where the boys won, 1 to 0, they played STRONG!! We missed Casey today, who was on Kauai.

We played coach Darren Driskill's team, and Hugh Gentry's crew was the ref. Ryan and Pohaku were captain and co-captain. Ryan started the game off strong with an goal, with a STRONG assist by Pohaku!! Jeremy as right half also scored a goal to bring the game up 2 to 0 early on. Ryan also took 2 additional goal attempts, and Keaton made another attempt. Meanwhile, Trey and Shane played strong back positions so that Evan didn't have to do much as keeper - though he WAS ready!!

The second quarter saw more scoring drives. Evan scored a strong goal, followed by Kaelan scoring. Evan had another nice drive in to the goal. Kaelan took a strong drive in too. Trey took a shot. Ryan played a strong keeper, only letting one goal go in - though it was way over his head, so there wasn't much that he could do.

Trey and Jeremy played forwards in the third. Trey scored 2 goals, and Jeremy scored 1. They had great assists from both Pohaku and Evan as halfbacks. Shane had some good plays as keeper.

At this point, the score was 7 to 1, and I was trying multiple ways of not running up the score. During the 4th quarter, Keaton and Shane played forward. Shane scored a goal!! At this point, goals were scored by 6 or our players. I called over Jeremy, Evan, Kaelan and Ryan to ease up a little on defense, in hopes that the other team could score a few points, but the other team wasn't able to score.

While I was bummed for the other team that they didn't score more goals, according to all of our players, they were being threatened with "I'm going to push you down", and were subject to teasing and taunting, but we held our heads high and played with class. Fortunately the refs were calling a lot of the intentional slide tackles and tripping, and I was very happy with that.

Most importantly, while I don't like running up the score, I told the boys that the best retaliation for dirty play is to just win! And they did that in a BIG way.

Good going Extreme! You guys are awesome!!