We're Regional Champs!
After that penalty kick loss in the Washington State Cup, the boys were ready to take on some tough competition in another big tournament.
The regional tournament was June 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st in Redmond at Sixty Acres Park.
The played one game on Saturday and Sunday and won both games with no goals scored.
We drove back home on Sunday evening.
Harper, Logan, and I drove back over on Monday for a 6:30 game.
Presley and Ry stayed home for a couple hours alone before Dave got home from work.
Then they went to Rylan's end of the spring soccer season ice cream party.
Monday's game was against Cosmos. This team ended up winning the Washington State Cup back in April. It was a great game that we led 4-0 until the last 10 minutes.
I don't know what happened to the referee-ing after that, but there were many questionable calls, and a lot of yelling in Spanish on the sidelines
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Cobras prevailed with a 4-3 win!!
We drove home this night, arriving back home close to 11.
The championship game was on Tuesday at 3:00.
Luckily, Dave didn't have anything so we all were able to go and watch.
Harper and Presley sat close together so Logan could put the seat down and stretch out his legs.
Both teams walked out with the referees at the beginning of the game.
Logan's always been easy to spot because of his bright goalie jersey, but now he's also usually the tallest (this day, the tallest of both teams and the refs)
I took some IPhone pictures during the game, but they weren't very good.
It was 1-0 us at halftime. And the final score was 2-0.
It was a really good game, and Logan had lots of action.
He had 2 very good saves.
After the game, we walked across the sports complex to the trophy presentation.
They're waiting for the team before them to finish up.
Shaking hands with his coach after receiving his medal.
Regional Champions!
Raising the trophy.
Logan and Colby
Logan and his coach Ramiro
(I looked back to see if I could find a picture of them together from a few years ago but I couldn't find one. Logan used to be shorter than him.)
At the end of the game, the main referee came over to Dave to ask if the goalie was his son, Dave said yes and he complimented Dave on how well Logan played.
We were walking back over to pick up our chairs after the trophy presentation and there were some officials inside that shelter to the left. One of the men came out of that area as we were packing up and shook Logan's hand and told him he used to be a goalie and how impressed he was with Logan as he was watching him play.
It was a happy ride home!
Thursday's newspaper had an article on the front page of the Sports section about their win.
Off to Aurora, Colorado in a month for the National Tournament...flights are booked!
