Soccer Score

This Fall Peyton was able to compete in the inhouse league since her club team is not doing league play, is just doing tournaments. Her first game was Saturday.

The Aqua Sharks won 5-2. Peyton scored two of the goals while assisting on two others.

She was playing keeper on the other one scored.

It was interesting to see the other team and the girls and their level of play compared to Peyton, who's somewhat advanced at her skill level since she plays club soccer. It was also nice to see her pass the ball to others and to help them set-up and score.

Funny observation. When the other team kicks it passed their own goalie out of bounds, the team who was trying to score (in this case Peyton's team) gets a corner kick. At 4th-5th grade level, they don't always do a corner kick, most times the refs just drop it and someone either kicks it or throws it in. Well, once the other team kicked it out, Peyton picked up the ball and ran to the corner. The ref with the whistle in his mouth just followed her over to the corner, she threw up her arm, he blew the whistle (while chuckling) and she kicked it and looped it around front of the goal. It landed right in the middle, right in front of one of her teammates, right where you want it to land. But it just dribbled on by because all the girls were looking at her with a "what did you do that for" look on their face.

One of the other refs approached the guy who did the corner kick and said, "they do corner kicks at this age range?" The ref replied, "Apparently!"

Peyton did it a second time, only this time she over shot to the other side of the goal because one of the fifth-graders on her team who knew what to do with it was standing there and she kicked it in to score the fifth point.

It was clear Peyton was playing at an advanced level and considering what we pay per year to be a part of Metro Select Soccer club, I think it was evident we are getting our monies worth with the level of play she demonstrated. Now we're just hoping she learns to take the leadership position and to help the other gilrs understand positioning and play set-up. They have a healthy respect for her.

One of the coaches from the other team is Peyton's crossing guard on her way to school...she told Peyton, "You're not supposed to mop us up like that!" Peyton laughed...Scott and I just smiled becasue we thought she took it easy on the other team. She could've easily done more but she was holding back...some of the girls on the other team were her classmates and she didn't want to be considered the "ball hog" running all the plays, not letting her teammates get a chance to score. She was a good leader and motivator for her team.

Next Saturday she plays two games. Two tougher teams, we'll see how the Aqua Sharks do!