I'm a little sad that Summer 2010 soccer tournament season is over! Cade and Gabrielle played in five tournaments each this summer and Willem played in one tournament for a total of six weekends out of town enjoying our kids play.
Cade and Elle both played in the Mt Hood Challenge in the Portland area this weekend. It was a fun and actually pretty relaxing weekend (after my team manager/player eligibility drama was favorably settled!) spent with friends and family at Embassy Suites and on the soccer fields. My Dad and Marcus came for several games and David and James both had kids playing.
Cade's team (the Bocas - playing in the top U13 division) gave us some great games including a fantastic one vs. OSA which went to penalty kicks. In regulation of that game, Cade scored and had two assists. The game ended in a 5-5 tie and his team won in PK's (Cade made his PK)! It was so much fun to see his team battle back from a 2-5 deficit! The Bocas made it to the consolation final losing to a Boise area team in overtime (in the last 90 seconds) 0-1 in another great game. Aside from those games, the Bocas lost 1-3 to WUSC (the State Cup Champs) and 0-1 to Hood River and beat Thelo 1-0. Cade played great and got a lot of playing time, all at forward. He had a blast though he really wanted to win that last game!
Cade worked so hard all weekend
The Bocas celebrating after their PK win
Gabrielle's team played in the top U11 division and went 3-2 for the weekend taking 3rd place. The games they won, they won convincingly 3-0, 6-1 and 5-0 vs. Mollala, Newberg and Thelo. They met a tough Vancouver Timbers team losing 3-0 and lost to Oregon Rush 5-2 in the semi-final though the 8:00 am start turned out to be tough for our girls as they got behind 3-0 early and then finally woke up and played them straight-up the rest of the game. All great lessons learned! Her team was missing a couple of their top girls and I look forward to watching them play these teams in coming years with our full squad! Elle had a great time with her friends and played well, mostly at forward and outside defense. She got the first goal of the tournament for her team which was fun as well!
It was gorgeous in Canby with the mountain in the background. Here are Athena and Elle waiting to be subbed in.
Another great shot of the setting. Love the corn fields!
Ashley taking a corner kick
Jordan and Katlyn celebrating a goal
And, finally, a picture of our favorite fan!
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Sounds like a fun weekend!! Hmmm, I think I'll have to hear about this team manager drama though! Always fun to hear about your kids' soccer too. Nev is looking like Oma again in this picture. Such a cutie!!
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