NSC Fall Cup Schedules Posted

Schedules came out yesterday for the 2008 NSC Fall Cup.  We will be playing up to the U13 top flight and I'm excited for the weekend test.  We'll face off against Dakota Rev Rampage, North Metro Lightning, and the Edina Swarm.  Not sure what happened in the NSC scheduling office, but I think the groups are a bit skewed as the three current fall league leaders were put in the same group. 

The other group has White Bear Lake, Dakota Rev's second team, Prior Lake Splash (a U12 team like us), and Woodbury.

The only bummer about the weekend is that it is unlikely that we'll get 4 games in as it will be very difficult to advance out of this group.  Maybe I'll try and call the Prior Lake team and see if they want to play a 4th game in the event that neither of us win our group.

The great thing about the weekend is that we're going to be facing terrific competition here in our backyard.  I had considered taking the group to the Chicago Sockers Nike Classic Cup this weekend in Illinois, or to the Metro United Girls Fall Classic (also in Illinois) the first weekend in November.  The Sockers event turned out to be 9v9 and the Metro event conflicted with a family vacation to Disneyland that I kinda forgot about, much to my wife's chagrin.  Moreover, I heard the fields at the Metro United event weren't that great, so we bailed on the idea. 

We're fortunate to find a challenging test here at home this week.  We'll be out muscled in every match up for sure, needing to rely heavily on technique and brains to stay competitive.

Hopefully the weather will cooperate so I can get some good video from the games.