BV vs Fountain Valley
In the past Fountain Valley has beaten us 3-1, and 2-1. This year we were hoping to play them just as well in the past or better. We arrived at the field a little tired because we had already played a game. When we were stretching a blue healer came running across the fields right at us. He was the friendliest cutest little dog ever. He would roll in the grass and pull himself on his stomach across the grass. Then once we had started warm up the dog started to play with us. It was great. Finally Fountain Valley came out onto the field and started their warm up. We were all feeling lethargic but ready to play our best. We were informed that they had a really good freshman on their team who apparently had insane foot skills. Along with here was #17 who had scored the winning goal against us in the the last 2 seconds of double over time to win the game last year. The game started and Fountain was instantly on the attack. We defended them well and made them frustrated within the fist 5 minutes. The 8 ( the really good freshman) got the ball and passed it to 17 who was standing just outside the 18. Cody Lewis went to pressure the ball. 17 took her shot and hit Lewis in the back. However the deflection went to a different Vally player who took her shot, the ball went into the back of the net. BVHS was disappointed that we had let that happen. We were well aware that we could have done a better job defending that. Fountain continued to pressure the box and goal but Jalyn denied their shots. We were getting pretty frustrated- a mild way of putting it- at the players on Fountain. They were extra physical, actually they were unnecessarily physical, and they had some pretty rude and annoying things to say. To top it off the refs seemed to be calling for Fountain. Cody Lewis did a good job running the defense and shutting down both 8 and 17 and getting lots of bruises to prove it. By the end of the first half it was still 1-0 Fountain. We had a good talk at half time and felt ready for another 40 minutes of tough frustrating soccer. The second half started and again Valley was down on our half. Again the defense shut them down and denied their shots. Lewis was getting so beat up back there but she was doing and excellent job running back. At one point Lewis was standing in the middle of the field when Valley sent a through ball to 8, but the ball was a little bit in front of her. Lewis booked it to the ball, saw 8 coming, slide tackled the ball to clear it, and when 8 caught up with the ball it was too late for her. She hit Lewis’ legs and went flying through the air. It was a safe play and the ref called to play on. For the rest of the game it seemed like 8 was out to get Cody. Of course our entire team was out to get 8. Then someone passed Bailey the ball who took it down to the kill zone. Bailey sent in her cross, but it ended up between the keeper and the post. It was tied up at 1-1. Fountain was mad and ready to get back at BV, and they did. Within 2 minutes of scoring Fountain got the ball down into the box and 8 took a shot that went low and wide into the far corner. We were losing again. Fountain continued to play hard and mean through out the rest of the half. In fact 8 punched one of our players, didn’t get a card and then she tried to take Jalyn out, but the ref was right there and she got a card. 17 and 8 were getting really frustrated that they couldn’t get the ball into the back of the net anymore and by the end of the game it was still 2-1. We had played an excellent game against Fountain Valley and even though we lost we all felt good about the game. We were ready for the next 2 games that were coming up on Tuesday and Friday. Today we play CSCS here at 4:00 and then on Friday we play TCA there. We need to win one or both of the games if we want to go to state. We would love your support in the stands.
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