Columbus Crew Playoff Game

The Columbus Crew has made it to the playoffs, and their first match is against D.C. United. This first game in the major league soccer playoffs was a one single game playoff to determine who would advance. The Crew ended up winning. This game was an exciting game to watch. D.C. United scored the first goal. They scored because a cross was played in and someone headed the bouncing ball into the goal. Then later on in the first half, the Crew scored. The goal was scored by a crew player named Frederico Higuain. At the half, the game was tied up. In the second half, neither team scored, therefore the game went to overtime. In overtime, the Crew scored first from another goal by Frederico Higuain. Then D.C. United ended up scoring which tied the game up again. Now that there were no more minutes in overtime, that meant the game was headed to a penalty shootout. This penalty shootout was one to remember because the Crew’s goalkeeper Zach Stephan made a few incredible saves. Stephan’s saves helped the Crew win the game in the penalty shootout. I look forward to watching the Crew’s next playoff game on Sunday.

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Tournament Game vs Bellefontaine

My team was on a good roll going into the tournament. In the first round, we beat the Graham Falcons, a team full of goons. We ended up beating them 3-2 with our final goal scored in over time. Then our next game was Bellfountain, and sadly we lost to them. We should have ended up winning this game because we scored early on, but then Bellfountain scored to goals where they were offsides. Now I am a licensed referee, and these assistant referees blew the offsides call, and it was obvious they were offside. I try not to complain much about referees since I am one myself, but these guys were not in a good position at all and that caused them to miss the calls. Let me make this clear though, I am not blaming this game on the referees. My team had a few chances that we messed up. This was also a hard loss because it was my last time playing with my brother on the soccer field. It was a good season playing with him and I’ll remember this season.

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Game vs Jonathan Alder

My team the Kenton Ridge Cougars were coming off of a two-game win streak going into this game. We were feeling pretty good about this game because we were confident. We had been playing some good soccer lately. The first goal we scored was scored off of a corner kick within the first ten minutes. We were pretty hyped after that, especially since a senior scored the goal and it was senior night. Then another senior scored a goal, and we got really hyped up again. Then about ten minutes later Jonathan Alder scored on us. The goal they scored was frustrating because we should have cleared the ball out. It was okay though because we ended up winning 2-1.

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