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Soccer: Win (3-2)

And the streak continues, although since it is the last game of the season I guess it also ends. The other team was tough, playing a very physical game right from the start. The guy I was guarding most of the time was particularly hands-on, which is not the easiest thing for me to defend against. The ref wasn't calling anything, including the elbow to the head that caused one of the people on my team's eyes to swell shut. Not cool at all. They wound up scoring a couple of goals in the first half, and controlled the ball most of the time so it did not look good.

Things turned around in the second half, though. Oscar and I switched sides and he was much better at taking care of the pushing and elbowing while I was able to better cover the people making runs on the opposite side. Mark made some good stops, and we started to control more but couldn't finish anything. Then we got a PK for an intentional handball in the box, balancing things out since we had lost someone (a ringer?) to 2 yellows. After the PK things seemed to turn around and we started looking more dangerous. Finally, we had a low shot that made the goalie give a rebound, and we had someone there to clean it up. I thought a tie seemed like a fair result, but towards the end another ringer on our side, who was doing great work distributing from the midfield, got the ball, looked at some people making runs, then caught the goalie by surprise and fired in a shot just under the crossbar for the win. Very nice!

Not the best game to end on, but overall a pretty great season. I think we finished 5-3-1. Not bad at all!