soccer this weekend...

well, i missed the boy's game to make brogan's (the boys won 3-2 with cullen and luke both making the scoreboard), but man, what a game she had. second week running that she's hat-tricked. won 4-0 today and 7-1 last week. it's fun watching them finally coming together as a team, both on the field and off. it was at about this age that morgan's team truly began to gel (which recollection brings some melancholy). and yet, unlike morgan's team - which stuck together in the rec league until they hit about age 13 (at which point they graduated to the select league and from two-years-running undefeated to virtually winless for the next two) - it looks like brogan's team may well disolve at the end of this season with the more talented rising to select and the balance, well, i'm not sure... kinda bitter-sweet. on the one hand, it's great to see brogan and others rising to the next level and realizing their talent. on the other, there's something socially leveling about playing in the rec league - as said before, it's great to see the team come together, talented and less so, as peers and as friends. next chapter in life, i guess - just wish it didn't have to be so soon. (there's that melancholy bleeding through again)...