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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“Columbus Crew Stadium Panorama” by jinjian liang and is shared under a (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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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Just a soccer ball by bluesbby is licensed by (CC BY 2.0)

Troubles Refereeing

Tonight I was reffing a game, and I was one of two refs. There is supposed to be three refs in the game I was doing, but my brother and I were the only ones who signed up for the game. We had to get a parent to be on the other sideline since we only had two refs. During the game, my brother was in the center and I was on a line. The parent ref kept calling for offside, but since he was not a licensed referee he couldn’t call anything but out of bounds. My brother had to call fouls and offside, so he had two responsibilities. My brother did the best he could, and at halftime, the parent ref complained about how the other team was offsides. We told him he can’t call offsides because he’s not certified, but he kept complaining about that. Then he also told us that there was nothing we can do, he was just mad at the league organization. This guy was really talking out of both sides of his mouth.

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