So instead of getting stuff done for the quickly approaching wedding, I decided to head back to Gull Lake and play in my high school alumni game. About 25 alumni showed up, but mostly it was the guys who had graduated with in the past 1-3 years. I mean, they are alumni, but come on... Anyway, there were 3 guys there that I had played high school soccer with, and my parents and Phil came out to watch the game. The game got off to a poor start when the alumni got scored on in the first 5 minutes, but we battled back tying the score in the 2nd half. Then came the glory! I hit a great shot (left footed even) from about 25 yards out. The game winning goal, or at least I thought. The varsity team countered about 5 minutes later with a good goal of their own. The game ended up going into OT and into PK's. I was picked to shoot one of them and decided not to volunteer the information that the last time I took a PK at Gull Lake that it was saved. But this time I got my redemption scoring my 2nd goal, helping the Alumni to the victory. Even if you count the PK as 0.5 goals, you have to round up to 1.0, so I did have 2 goals in the game no matter what "the hamburger" will say.
Phil was also nice enough to take 50 or so pictures during the game for me. If you look closely at the last picture he actually got my PK shot in mid air. I am disappointed that he didn't get my goal during the game though. But in all fairness to him, he told me he really didn't think my shot was going to get on goal, let alone go in.
