From First to Worst
It’s amazing how much things can change in a year. Last year, the CIA intramural soccer team took first place in the recreational league tournament. Tonight, our season ended a little prematurely. You see, we didn’t win a single regular season game this year. In fact, we got outscored 7-1 in the three games that we played. Our worst loss of the season was a 3-0 decision against Fiji (the brothers of Phi Gamma Delta). Guess who we, the last seed in the tournament, got paired up with? That’s right, Fiji, the top seed. (Don’t you just love the standard tournament format?) Needless to say, we lost. The margin by which we lost was what surprised me: 7-0! What was really bad was that tonight was the first night that we fielded a full team (nine players) from the beginning of the game. Up till now, we usually spent the last minutes before the game started frantically calling people and begging them to come out and play with us, so we could have the minimum of seven players to avoid having to forfeit. Tonight, we even had an extra offensive weapon that we had been without this season.
That puts me O-fer in the tournament win category since soccer last summer. I guess that your hopes can be easily inflated by having German foreign exchange students on your team. I guess that’s what we’ll have to do before next summer, persuade German foreign exchange students to come to Kettering just so we can have an awesome soccer team again. I can dream, can’t I?
