Our First Soccer Game

On Friday, we went to our first soccer game. We went with Cortney and Jesse, some new friends from church. The Charleston Battery took on the Atlanta Silverbacks (which I thought was kind of cool). I wasn't really sure if I was going to like soccer. It wound up being a whole lot of fun, though!


The first 45 minute half, the Battery was trying to score on the other end of the field from where we were sitting. At the end of the first half, it was 1-0, Atlanta. After half-time, the teams switched goals. The Battery scored and tied it up. With just miniutes to go, one of the Atlanta players tripped a Battery player and we got a penalty shot. GOAL! We were up 2-1, and Atlanta was mad. A fight almost broke out. It was pretty exciting!


After the game, we all went down on the field... and wondered how parents would ever find their children that had ran down and did the same. Darren and Cortney were being silly (Cortney was giving Darren bunny ears or something, but it didn't work).

There was a beautiful post-game fireworks show. It started with a salute to the Charleston Nine- the 9 firemen who lost their lives in a fire this last week. It was then followed by a 7 or 8 minute firework show. We had a great time and I look forward to going to another game!