SHADOW CREEK RANCH
MAY 2016 VOLUME 8, ISSUE 5
Shadow Creek & Pearland Split Titles Several soccer teams from Shadow Creek Soccer Club recently met Pearland United Soccer for an all day tournament. Since both clubs have never met for formal competition, the meeting was called “The Pearland Showdown.” Shadow Creek took four teams in two age groups—under 9 and under 10. There was incredible soccer from 8:30 in the morning to late in the evening at the new Hickory Slough Sports Park right down the road from Dawson High School. Shadow Creek's “A” teams in U9 and U10 played well during the day and qualified for the final match in the evening. The U9 team was mostly 3rd graders but also had two 2nd graders and one 1st grader. Shadow Creek scored first and held the lead for most of the first half, and then Pearland United tied the game going into halftime. With some amazing goal keeping from Luke Davis and defending by the whole team, the 2nd half attacked resulted in another goal for Shadow Creek and was energized by Milan Damani, Keneth Esquivel, Richard Agyeman-Yeboah, ILLias ElFadili, Jacamo Federico, Myles Gardner, Langdon Dai, and others. With more rugged defending in the final minutes of the game, Shadow Creek took the championship. The under 10 team of mostly 4th graders found the final game tough going and went down 3-0 in the first half. 2nd half was more unnexpected soccer as Shadow Creek score 1, 2, 3 goals...and then a 4th goal to take the lead 4-3. With only seconds remaining in the game, Pearland United scored and tied 4-4. The overtime was hard fought, and then a 2nd overtime with still no score, so to decide the game and award a champion, there was a final penalty shoot-out. Each team scored multiple times until Shadow Creek missed by 2 inches. It was an amazing 2nd place and a worthy match for all. Copyright © 2016 Peel, Inc.
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