Fort Wayne Soccer Tournament

This past weekend I traveled to New Haven, Indiana for the State Cup soccer tournament. It was a fun drive down, because I watched Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story. Anyways, when we got there we had about twenty minutes two stretch and put our equipment on before we had to start warming up with the team. I have been battling several injuries during this soccer season, including pulled and aggravated tendons in my foot, a pulled butt muscle, and sore legs because of the amount of team I have spent running for the soccer season. I spend at least twenty minutes before each game stretching these particular muscles and dressing my wounds meticulously. The first game was a fairly easy one, against the host of the tournament, Fort Wayne Citadel. We won the game 5-0, with some spectacular goals from Christian Ibarra, Brandon Speedy, and others. The second game was against one of our arch rivals, the Millennium Soccer Association. To put things lightly, we came out slow and two goals were scored on us in the first ten minutes. Approximately five minutes later there came another, presumably the final nail in the coffin. But we rebounded spectacularly in the second half, scoring two goals in the first five minutes, and the equalizer in the final three minutes. The final score was 3-3, but it was a victory in our book. Our third game was against a team who had lost both previous games by a score of at least 5-0. It was a cakewalk, and we won 5-0. Since the Millennium team had won their first game 5-0 and so did we, it was down to goal differential to see who would move on to the semi-state round two weeks from now. The final score of their last game was 4-0! We had advanced! Since we had scored tied against Millennium, that was not a deciding factor. We scored 13 goals overall in the tournament and they had only scored 12. It was certainly a very close call.