Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Eaglebrook Soccer Tournament

So for some of you who do not know... Eaglebrook is a soccer tournament that normally happens on the first saturday in November. The tournament consists of 16 teams, and you have to win or come 2nd in your group to advance to the A division. If you come 3rd or 4th you will quickly find yourself in the B division. However the tournament is very difficult because they are only 20 minute games and you can find yourself on the wrong side of the game very quickly, because if you go down 1-0 to an early goal, the team your losing against will go into a defensive shell and wont come out, until its too late and you've lost. Thats why it is very important to go in all out with no regrets. This was our Morning schedule for Eaglebrook
1st Game Fay- In this game,the team as a whole were sort of completely caught off guard because it felt like it was over before we knew it and there was nothing we could do about it. Luckily we were able to bounce back however and win our next 2 games after tying this game 0-0.
2nd Game Rectory- This was a quality game in which many chances were missed and where Matt Killian had an absolute banger of a goal right into the bottom left corner, that carried us onto to the next game.
3rd Game Shore- The game against Shore was the game where as a team we played the best, even though we only won 1-0 it was a good domination of the game for us, as we had been able to keep possession most of the time and gotten good opportunities on net. The goal we scored was rather early on in the game maybe the 5th or 6th minute, it was scored by Alex Hill off a header that was passed by one of our defenders that had actually attempted to shoot it.

After these 3 games, we realized we had done well enough to make it into Division "A" which is the top 2 teams from the earlier brackets ^^.
In our first game for this bracket we played Rumsey Hall and had a great game. Goals were scored by Chewy Bruni and Alex Hill, both goals were great goals.
Eaglebrook- I have no idea how in the world we drew this team, because to be honest... they looked as if they were old enough to be  juniors and seniors in High School, some of their attackers even had full on beards! This was a great game for us. The final result was 0-0
Fessenden- Fessy was a team that we had already played twice in the season and had beaten once and lost once, both 2-1 games. However we came out strong and won the game from Whit Caldwalders simple nice clean goal.
We were all super excited because we thought we had gone to the final, and then we realized that we wouldn't be going because Eaglebrook had scored more goals then us.
We were all bummed out, but not out of the tournament as we got to play in the less prestigious 3rd place game. The game itself was very interesting as our goalie had gotten a red card and we put Matt Killian in as goalie. Who by the way was astonishing. That game however we were still able to win 1-0 and come back to Fenn for 3rd place. Thanks For Reading!

4 comments:

  1. Matt Killian had an absolute banger... I like it

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  2. Haha Killian in goal I like it. Who won the tournament?

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    1. Cardigan Mountain "A" even though they drew with their "B" team.

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