Soccer Is Over

The company soccer season is finally over. I can now rest all my injuries up until January when the Broomball season starts. For being supposedly friendly games among co-workers, physical play was the theme of the season. My friend last night suffered a 7-stitch gash to forehead on a 50/50 header; the other guy suffered a similar laceration to his forehead. The worst injury to our team is still my other friend tearing his ACL as he tried to avoid a clip from an opposing player. But through it all, our team came out with a winning record at 6-4-0 and ended up in 3rd place. With much inexperience on our team and being our first year playing together, 3rd place is nothing to be ashamed of. Next year, thoughts of 1st place aren’t a pipe dream.

Here are our team awards...

• Top Scorer: Jeremy McJunkin (a.k.a. Junker) - scored 6 goals in last night's game alone.
• Sickest Move: Tim Gerdes (T-Pod) - spin move with the ball through 2 guys, and blasted the ball into the upper right goal with a powerful left foot. Sportscenter Top Ten.
• Defensive Stud: Josh Westbrook (Westy) - made my job at goalie easy with him playing sweeper, and is infamous for his game time cartwheels.
• Not Knowing The Rules: Pete Kubista (Sneaky Pete) - got red-carded for intentionally stopping a ball with his arm in the penalty box. Oops.
• Most Likely to Fall: Candace Pederson (Candy) - she's just clumsy.
• Second Half Season Hero: Ryan Pendergast - our team needed a stopper, and he filled that need.
• Whine With That Cheese: Eric Iseler (Ice) - when is this guy not complaining?
• Worst Injury: Jesse Smith - matching ACL injury to go with his repaired right one.
• Got Skillz: Chris Mwarabu & Funsho Aduloju - born to play, ready to roll.
• Most Improved: everyone else on the team - Matt Goshgarian (Gosh), Jim Chen, Zack Garbow, Dan Nelson (D1), Becky Vossberg and Ryan Cradick.
• Worst Goalkeeper: Me - to my credit, I was also the best.

Thanks for a great season, looking forward to next year.