soccer report

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Last night, Crossfire lost to Ball Monsters, 7-3.  We continue to make good progress; Maria and Javier, the captains, tried assigning set positions to people, and they seemed to yield decent results.  We played a fairly tight game (scored the first goal again) until about halfway through the second half, when we lost our defensive composure (again).  I had a couple of embarrassing goals: the first occurred when a shot bounced off my forearm and lobbed into the far corner; the other occurred when i dove and stifled a shot, but when i tried to put my hand on the ball to prevent it from rolling into the goal, i managed instead to slap it and push it in all the way.  Apparently the ref didn't count it, but that barely ameliorated the chagrin.  Despite the miscues, i was happy with my play; i was all over the box, throwing my body across the path of the ball and opposing players.