When we retured to Misawa from our field trip on Friday, we took Patrick straight on base for soccer games. The Edgren High School Eagles, played their first home games in Friday's rain and fog: one against M.C. Perry High School (Iwakuni, Japan) at 4 p.m. and one at 8 p.m. against N.C. Kinnick High School (Yokosuka, Japan). When the game ended at around 9:30 p.m., the coach sent them home to warm up and get some sleep.
Saturday morning, they got up and did it again. Again it was foggy and rainy. They had a game against Perry at 8 a.m. in rain and another against Kinnick at 12 noon. At least the rain had stopped by then.
Patrick went in in the last seconds of the first half of Saturday's Perry game and stayed in for the second half.
Not bad for a guy who hasn't played soccer since he was 11.
It was a tough game, but the Eagles won it 3-1.
With 25 boys on the team, Patrick has had to learn to live with playing very little this year. Not a particularly pleasant lesson, but he has handled it with humility and grace. At least he gets to hang out with his friends at practices...and it give him PE credit for the season. :-)
In the end, they won 3 of the 4 games, beating Perry twice and Kinnick once.
Go Eagles!
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