A Weekend in Nebraska - Day 2

We opened the weekend against Toro Booyah (NE).  This was Toro's U12 team that was one of the top teams at this age group in the nation.  I found out yesterday that the Blue Valley Stars Ratpack could not make the trip up due to a sheet of ice over the Kansas area.  I obviously understood the situation but was bummed that we wouldn't get a chance to come up against them this weekend.  As it turned out, the Booyah were supposed to head to Kansas City this weekend to play in an event.  They couldn't make the trip for the same weather reason, so they filled in for the Ratpack in the Omaha event.

The Booyah played well, but they couldn't compete with us.  The game was played in the Booyah half for 90% of the time.  We created a ton of chances but only put one goal away.  This was a good indication to me that we needed to work on ways to penetrate packed in defenses as we would likely see similar situations at State Cup. 

We then came up against the Omaha Gladiators later that afternoon.  The Bangu girls played very well, again created a ton of chances, but had better luck finishing 4 or 5 of them this afternoon.