Game 9 Recap

The above photo represents what D-Ray did to the Dallas Lions with one minute left in the game.

What a game.

Missing - Tutt, Brady, Chuck, and Peer.

The Dallas Lions started with 7 or 8 players and had the wind on another very breezy day. Even going against the wind one would still assume Boones would dominate and score a few early goals - WRONG. We instead goofed around and missed some shots. They eventually had 10 players. They won a corner kick midway in the first half. We were unable to clear out the ball and they scored. 10 minutes later we allowed one of their players to dribble down the middle. While Chris was yelling at our team "don't let that guy dribble down the middle!" he shot and scored with an assist from the wind. The Lions were up by two - they were beating us to the ball and they were doing a good job controlling the ball with good passing (with just 10 men). After we missed some more shots, it was finally halftime. It was so bad that the buzzards at Lake Grapevine were flying in circles above our bench.

The good news is that no one on Boones likes to lose. You could tell that we were fired up after an embarrassing first half. We played much more aggressively in the second half. They were going against the wind and I think we started to wear them out. Boones finally scored when Pele Julio was able to win a contested ball from a Lion at about mid-field. All of the sudden Clay swooped in took off with ball toward the goal. He dribbled in a shot the ball perfectly to the far post past their keeper. Our entire team was pumped up. Unfortunately the Lions scored another goal on us when they won a corner kick and took it very fast before we could set-up. They made a short quick pass from the corner, the guy that took the pass turned and centered the ball to their one guy in the middle. He basically took Chris out and ball bounced off his knee into our goal. Boones 1 - Lions 3.

We did not quit and kept putting a ton of pressure on them. We struck soon after when Big Dave was able to get a goal in by being aggressive and not allowing them to clear the ball out. I think he knocked it in while down on a knee. Boones 2 - Lions 3.

The last five minutes of the game were crazy. We kept the pressure on we were able to keep the ball on their end of the field. We essentially had 8 or 9 guys forward trying to score. I don't remember the details of our next goal other than the ball being in the air right in front of their goal and the only one near it was Pup. He jumped up and headed the ball in. We came back to tie 3-3! With only a few minutes left, we had the ball in another scoring position on the right side. I am pretty sure it went like this - Joel passes perfectly through the middle - Dave was in the middle but didn't get the shot - Pele Julio was next just to the left of Dave but the ball was out of his reach - the ball kept going left and somehow D-Ray shows up and was able to get his foot on the ball and bury it into the net. BOONES 4 - lions 3!!!! D-RAY! D-RAY!