the toughest week of soccer

This week is going to be the hardest out of the rest of the season. The reason for this is we are playing 4 games and all 4 teams are ranked in the top 25 in the state of Kentucky. The first game is today which we play Owensboro High School who is ranked in the top 10 and we have three of our starters out for this game, so it may nit end so well. As for the other three games we play this weekend in a tournament in Bowling Green, which the first game we play lafayette who is ranked 25th in the state. Then we play Elizabethtown who is ranked 21st in the state, And last but definatley not least we play Ballard who is 6th in the state. This again is going to be a harsh week for are team but it may just be a great experience for us...and who knows maybe we can pull out an upset on someone.
                 
                                                                                      - your left hand man

we won!!

Are first win of the season came against our rivals Owensboro Catholic tonight. It was a great game are team played great and gave it all they had. the score stayed tied until about 16 minutes left in the second half when we brought the ball down into their goal box. The ball seemed like it was in their goal box for 20 mins and finally after it was kicked back and forth it came to the feet of Alex Hopewell and he put it in the back of the net. All of our fans and our team was ecstatic, it was an amazing moment. After losing our first 3 games it felt great to win this won against catholic. We just need to keep playing hard and giving it all we have and we will keep on succeeding this season!
                                                             - your left hand man

My First Goal

Our last scrimmage before the season officaly began, and I was unprepared for what was about to happen. We were playing mulenburg county and we were down 1-0 at half time. As the team walk off the field at half we knew we were going to get a mouth full from our coach, he was frustrated at us because we werent playing hard enough and that we can beat this team if we gave it all we got. So about 10 mins in the second they scored again, but we werent going down with out a fight. About 5 mins after they scored one of my teamates crossed the ball in and it flicked off of Reid's nose and as i saw the ball coming to me all i could think about was heading it and hopeing for the best. As the ball connected with my head it just got out of the reach of the keepers hands and it landed in the back of the net. I didnt really go crazy though ( at least on the outside i wasnt) after i scored even though a few of my teammates were yelling my name and patting me on the back, i knew i couldnt get to excited because we were still down a goal. unforchantly we still ended up losing 3-2 in a good battle but i was happy with my performance and was just that much more excited for our first offical game.

A new season with higher expectations

At the beginning of the summer the only thing on my mind was this is my first year of varsity soccer and i knew i had a lot of work to put in because I was most likely will be starting this year. Coach let us know at the beginning of the that he had high expectations for us after losing 10 seniors last season. So after all the hot days and long runs i was ready for my first game as a varsity soccer player. Our first games were at the Blue Grass State Games we ended up not making it past the first day with the record of 1 loss and 1 win, but i feel like I did well individually. As the summer went on we had another scrimmage we tied 2-2 put we out played them the whole game. Coach told us that this game was one of the best he has seen played by Apollo in a long time and if we kept playing like that we could go far into the season. So with that mind set in our heads and our first official game against the power house bowling green next week i think we will be able to keep with them and hopefully be at the top in the end.
                                                                      
                                                                                 - your left hand man