Regional Playoff Game vs Simon Kenton

Simon Kenton is an hour and a half away north up interstate 71.  Robert had to be at the school by 5:45.  I ordered a pizza from Dominos for him, because I was tutoring and couldn't make him dinner.  Ms. Frazee took him to the school so I could finish tutoring and so that we wouldn't have to pick up his car after the game.

Mark and I left the house around 6:10 to get to the game. The game started at 8:00 pm.  Robert started on the right wing.

NOHS won the toss and possessed the ball from the start.  It hadn't even been 3 minutes when Robert crossed the ball to the center, it bounced around and came back to him - he took the shot and SCORED.  GGGOOOOAAAALLLL!  The whole team went crazy!!!  Kaleb came all the way from the back to chest pump Robert!  Robert played the left side of the field when Conner came in.  The Simon Kenton players played dirty and the ref let play get out of hand.  The first yellow card was called against Blake on a defensive play.  The second yellow card was issued to a SK player against Robert.  He fouled Robert just outside the box, and then kicked Robert while he was down.  The ref saw it and carded him.  From there it only got worse.  Robert played most of the first half; he was only out  of the first half for about 6 minutes.

The rest of the first half we dominated the game but didn't score.  Half time was 1-0.

Goal #2 was Robert crossing to Conner and a defender put it in the net.

Robert started second half.  He had the ball down the left line and crossed it to Conner.  Conner missed the ball, but the defender for Simon Kenton accidentally kicked it into the goal - SCORE!!!!  NOHS is up 2-0.  Mark wondered, "Does Robert get the assist?"  YES!!!!

The refs really did a poor job of controlling the game.  There was a point were SK and NOHS were getting out of hand.  SK started really attacking our players in desperation for being down 2-0.  At one point Matthew Morris fouled a SK player at the top of the box.  Matthew got a yellow card, and SK got a PK.  MAX was awesome - he punched it out!!!  SAVED!!!  Then Ian cleared it to Mo in mid field.  The goalie came out too far; Mo chipped it over the goalie and the ball, ever so slowly, rolled into the back of the net!!!  GGGGGOOOOOAAAALLLL!  3-0

End of game 3-0.

NOHS advances to the Regional Semi-finals tomorrow against Anderson County