Mickey Mouse Club versus Hungry Hungry Hippos are scheduled to battle it out at 7:00 pm. According to the weather report, it says 75 degrees with 10% chance of precipitation, 38% humidity, winds from WNW 7 MPH. There are several Intramurals Supes on the Mickey Mouse Club team, and several players from the Hott Chicks team played on the Hungry Hungry Hippos. This game is being brought to you by the UMD Intramurals from College Park, Maryland, Turf Field #2.
Mickey Mouse Club starts with the ball in the 1st half. Both teams look evenly matched. Five minutes into game Robyn’s excellent soccer skills and scoring ability put up the Mickey Mouse Club 1-0. The game is being played at a very high pace with a lot of passing. Two minutes later Raymond Zacharski scores to make it a 2-0 lead for the Mickey Mouse Club. The Hungry Hungry Hippos need to step it up if they want to win this game. The Goal keeper for the Mickey Mouse Club, Catherine Damon, made some really awesome saves to prevent the Hungry Hungry Hippos from scoring in the first half, even though they had some excellent chances of scoring.
Ten minutes left in the 1st half, Rasa Ghaffarian who is a very awesome soccer player scores. According to Luis Velazquez, “It was a pretty sweet goal having dribbled down the field and shooting from the side.” Now the score is 2-1 Mickey Mouse Club. It looks like it is going to be a nail biter kind of match now with the Hungry Hungry Hippos down by just one goal. Half time score is 2-1 Mickey Mouse Club. The game has been a back and forth battle with both teams taking wild shots and missing golden opportunities.
To start the second half we see that the Mickey Mouse Club changes goalies from Catherine to Mike Warm. The Hungry Hungry Hippos start with the ball in the second half. Each team has controlled the ball very well and done a good job of passing the ball to open players. Mike Warm is making some excellent saves. He even laid out for the ball to make an incredible save. According to Mike, “Those kinds of save really hurt the next day.” As the sun starts to set in the West the temperature starts to drop and its getting a bit chilly out here on the Turf field… I wish I had a jacket… any way back to the game, which is turning out to be very close and exciting. With five minutes into the second half Phil Sharp has a nice fancy kick from an Assist from Catherine Damon to make the score 3-1 Mickey Mouse Club. It looks like they will be pulling away for a victory. But hold that thought because with just three minutes left in the game Adel scores for the Hungry Hungry Hippos to make the score 3-2.
Remember what I mentioned earlier about the game being a nail biter? Well. it is defiantly turning out to be one of those games. Just before that goal I talked to Matteo Bellistri about how he felt, and he said “We’re losing.” It is not about winning and losing it’s about having fun.
So now the score is 3-2 with three minutes left, anything is possible really so the Hungry Hungry Hippos make a “Golden Sub” and Adel comes out with Matteo going back in with one goal in mind and that is to score the equalizer. Matteo has been a star for his team with his speed and athletic ability, and somehow with about 20 seconds left in the game Matteo gets the ball and maneuvering through traffic, and scores the equalizer. It was so exciting, the crowd that consisted of three people went wild. I even jumped out of my seat because it was exciting. Now the game is tied 3-3 and that’s how it ended. After the game I asked Matteo how it feels scoring that goal he said with a smile “I was having fun.”
The Hungry Hungry Hippos even had a chance to seal the deal and win the game, but they blew there chance. Some may think that the Mickey Mouse Club were stupid for changing goalies or that Mike Warm Choked and lost the lead. However the two goals scored that made the score 3-2 or 3-3 were very tough to defend because there was a lot of congestion, and according to Mike “It was also hard to see.” The Hungry Hungry Hippos were missing their captain and star player Sonia Rada to a CPR class. Luckily they had Matteo to fill the shoes and score the tying goal. According to Matteo, “It hurt us but we got some good players here and one of our players also got hurt which was definitely a setback and we pulled through.”
According to Matteo of how his team played “We played better the second half then the first.” He also commented on scoring the equalizer “I feel a lot better now that we’re tied than before I went in. I wanted to score and definitely didn’t want to lose.” “It was awesome. It feels like a privilege [to be game of the week] and it is pretty cool.”
This is what Mike Warm had to say about his team performance “I think the team played great. We dominated the whole game and were able to stop the other teams top players from doing what they wanted to do. We unfortunately gave up two goals at the very end of the game but I am very optimistic about the rest of the season. I think we have a great chance to make a very deep run in the playoffs and hopefully we will make another appearance in the finals. It was cool being the game of the week. This is the second time one of my teams has been in the game of the week. So far have not managed to win one but hopefully third time will be a charm.”
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