Parkland was one of those teams that beat us pretty bad last year. They are one of those teams that is on our payback list...:) We knew going into the match that we would give them a good one, and that we might even be able to pull off an upset.
The crowd, and the opposing team, were a little stunned when Thad Snell put one in from the right side in the 15th minute of the first half. The rest of the half was played hard, and physical on both sides, and it would have been a very good half IF the officals would have done what they were paid to do,,,, call a fair game. I don't like to talk about poor officiating, and 99% of the time I don't. But when lack of calls and missed calls result in goals,,,that's when I get a litte upset. What really upsets me even more is when an official acts in a non professional manner and taunts my boys! It is my responsibility to stick up for my boys, and that's what I did. Okay enough about the poor officiating, except to say that Parkland scored two goals on two missed calls, and we were denied one goal scoring opportunity because a foul on our attacker was not declared a PK, like it should have been. So, at the end of the first half it was 2-1 Parkland.
In the second half we had some good opportunities to tie the game, but their Keeper played a nice game and turned us away. Parkland got one more goal in the last two minutes of the game. When the whistle blew, we walked away feeling like it was a much closer game than a 3-1 loss.
They are still on our payback list, so hopefully next year when we welcome them to The Lake, they'll have a long bus ride home.
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