State or No State???

So Tuesday night was Jake's last scheduled regular season game of his senior year. If his team lost...we wouldn't get to go to State, but if they won, we would. So it was a pressured fueled game that was played hard and ended up being 0-0 after the redular 80 minute game. Then came (2) 10 minute over times which it remained 0-0. So we went to Penalty Kicks. Below you will see how the game played out thru the pictures.

Warming up before game began.
they played hard and fought for every ball (most of the time).
This was an opportunity for the other team to score but we kept the ball away from the goal.
So one of our players made a stupid/silly foul and they got a free kick.
They set up to block the ball. Jake is #6 (second from right).

Jake jumped and the ball went off his right leg and they cleared it away.

Down to the last minnutes of the regular game...but we just couldn't score. Jake has so many nice passes to his forward players...it was frustrating that none of them could make something out of them. (Very frustrating for Jake)

So we went to PK (Penalty Kicks). The other team opted to go first (weird usually they choose to go last), but they missed their first two attempts, both by boys Jake has played on Club teams with and against for years. We made our first two. They made their third. Jake was our third kicker.

Setting up for his shot & mentally preparing. He looked the opposite way that he was going to kick to fake the keeper out.....

But the keeper read it right at the last minute & barely got the tips of his fingers on the ball and was able to just clear the bar. You could tell right away that Jake was so upset, he put his heads in his hands and walked back where the team consoled him. This was the first PK he EVER missed! SO SAD!!!!

This is the team running to their keeper and 4th kicker after we made it and won the game.

Celebrating!

STATE here we come. We celebrated at Chili's...Jake's choice. He still was frustrated all thru dinner & really couldn't enjoy the win completely. So the next picture and post should be of Jake with a MOHAWK! After practice today all the team members are getting mohawks to prepare for state. Ohhhh...I don't know why I said yes that he could....I'm regreting it know. Scott says it once in a lifetime and what a memory & story he'll have to share with his kids one day. I just think of SUNDAYS and blessing the sacrament...I wonder if they'll let him?