EBWL!

My team for East Bay Winter League is a lot of fun this year.  It is a hat league, so you sign up as an individual and then get drafted onto a team.  I played on EBWL for the first time last year and I had a lot of fun, so I was really looking forward to meeting my team this year.  We started back in December I believe, right around the holidays.  The first game didn't go very well.  We weren't used to each other's playing styles but one thing I did notice was that we had a lot of good handlers, which is something a lot of teams that I play on are lacking.  Well, we lost the next game, and the next, and the next, and it seemed like we were just going to have a losing streak through the entire season.  However, then we won a game!  And we got revved up and bonded more and we won another!  Then we started to have a flow, and good team strategies, and then last night, we had an upset where we beat a team in playoffs ranked much higher than us (and who beat us in the actual season) and now we're headed to quarter finals!

As fun as the game was, I have to admit that the weather last night was pretty miserable.  I played for years in Rochester, which has trained me to be able to play in most miserable weather conditions without a second thought, but this was by far the worst non-snow weather I've ever played in.  Snow might even have been less miserable.  It was just pouring, and the wind was so strong it was pouring sideways.  The wind was so strong it made the big raindrops feel like hail or sleet.  It was cold, too.  I was already soaked through from having played 2 hours of soccer at a clinic in the south sunset, so I was getting close to my limit of rain for the day.  Anyway, when the lights went out, we had won the game, and I beelined to my apartment and spent the next 20 minutes trying to warm up and feel human again in a hot shower.  I was so cold I couldn't even figure out what temperature water was!  

I'm really excited for the quarterfinals game on Tuesday now!  :)