Weeeee Are the Chammmpiooons, My Friee-eeend!

Besides having that song in my head, all we can say is 'WOW!' and 'that was awesome'! All summer long, Chris's team has thought that of their three tournaments, this one would be the hardest... and lo and behold, they took the cup! This morning they played Sparta 93 Premier - which are ranked at 19th in the nation, and won state cup (1st in the state) last season. I couldn't believe the heart these boys played with - it was INTENSITY at its best! The entire sideline was screaming through the entire game... and we won 1-0... a shut-out!!! Just to put into perspective how intense this game was: (1) one of our goalies was injured after an awesome save and not only was he out for that game, but he couldn't play in the final either; (2) another boy on our team got a red card (nope, it wasn't Dante this time) for something misconstrued by the ref, but a red card nontheless, so we were playing a man down (one less player on the field), and (3) here is a pic of one of our boys after the game, with a shredded jersey - and yes, those are claw marks on his neck:

Then for the final game, we faced the Blue Knights who had beat us the day before in their own shut-out of 3-0. I was a little worried about the boys playing a second game in the same day, in the heat, against a team they already had a loss to... especially with how hard the first game was. We brought Chris home between games so that he could ice bath and warm shower... and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Wow - they played with great intensity again and came out with Champion medals and the Sparta Cup trophy... with another shut-out of 1-0. Sweeeet!!!! Way to go Rangers 93 Premier!!!

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Trevor played too!

Trevor played in this tournament too, which was super fun to watch! Unfortunately, because of some poor alignment on the part of either the tournament board or who-knows-who, they didn't get to semi-finals, even though they earned enough points to put them 3rd in their bracket (yet a team that had 3 losses got to continue play... hmmm). They finished the tournament with 1 win, 1 tie and a loss... which we thought was awesome, since these were their very first games to play together as a team! Way to go Rangers 99 WCL Premier team!!!!