Friday, March 14, 2014

Gathering of the Tribes

I have this lacrosse tournament thingy called Gathering of the Tribes. GOTT is basically when a bunch of high school lacrosse teams get together and battle it out to get into the championship game. JV boys vs. JV boys, JV girls vs. JV girls, Varsity boys vs. Varsity boys, and Varsity girls vs. Varsity girls. That's pretty much how it goes down. We get four games, and the championship game if we make it.

Today we had two games. Tomorrow we will have two games. It was super exciting and fun. I really enjoyed playing. The first game was awesome and we won 11-01. We kicked ass. The second game we unfortunately lost, but that was because of many factors.

The first reason was because the other team was cheating. They would push our girls onto the ground while going for a ground ball. That's very illegal in lacrosse. They would also had a lot of crease violations. A crease violation is where any player, besides the goalie, crosses into the goal crease with either her stick or body. This is how they scored their last point. They would also pull a lot more illegal moves, which was not cool on their part.

Another reason we lost was because the other team didn't have enough girls sign up this year, so their team is pretty much JV and Varsity combined. So I guess it is pretty impressive we only lost by one point.

The other reason was that the referees were being unfair. They would call our team for things that the other team did, such as illegal checking. They would also call us for everything, even if they didn't happen, while they never called the other team for anything illegal they did. It was pretty obvious that the refs were favoring the other team. I just don't think that's cool. Also, after the game, we were running towards out goalie as we usually do, and I heard one of the refs say something that was totally rude and uncalled for.

So the other team scored the first goal and I heard the ref at the end of the game say "Once they scored the first goal I knew they were going to win," So she was basically saying that she knew we were going to lose and she just went and had to be a bitch about. Within earshot. I'm sorry for ranting, but all of this just pisses me off. I hate it when teams cheat and when refs favor. It's not cool at all. Thanks for reading my rant.
This is my baby, Roosevelt.

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