A goal, an assist, the world's longest tennis match and some big wins!

Well, the Koontz household has been super busy the past few days. Not any busier than other times but it seems that most everything has been centered on sports. Strange.

Saturday morning Madison and Brennan had a soccer jamboree at the YMCA. The morning started with the Red Lobsters running down the hill and bursting through their team banner. Brennan said that since he was number 4 and they are playing on field 4 that it was his job to tear the banner up first. He thought that running through the banner was fantastic!

Following the banner running we had another soccer game. David told the kids if they scored a goal then they would have a banana split. So midway through the game Madison passed the ball to Brennan and he kicked it into the goal! An assist and a goal all wrapped up in one! So Saturday evening we headed to the ice cream shop for a banana split after some football watching.

Speaking of football watching ...hope you all caught the Wake Forest vs. Maryland game on Saturday. If you missed it, don't have ESPNU or simply turned it off at halftime since it looked so bad--buddy you missed some good ball. Wake was down 24-3 at halftime and were seriously getting creamed. I went to go pick up some BBQ and just get out of the house and away from the terrible ballgame (while worrying that maybe the Vols would lose to Arkansas State--EEK!). When I came home David had paused the TiVo. He said "Okay so we are getting our butts kicked but you have to see this." Maryland was lined up on the 3, the QB passed the ball to score what was certain to be the final nail in Wake's coffin. Instead Alphonso Smith intercepts the ball on the goal line and runs it back 100 yards for a touchdown. It was totally the Game Changing Performance of the week. Wake came back and with 3 seconds left tied up the game and sent it into overtime. Wake has never won an overtime game, ever. They even lost the toss and had to take the first posession. This was bad, bad, bad. Well, holy cow, the Deacs scored a TD! And then the defense not only stopped MD but sacked the QB more than once. Wake wins 31-24!!!

Can't do much of a recap of the UT game since it wasn't on television but the most dramatic thing of that ballgame is that the VOLS won! Hallelluia!!!

Monday I had a tennis match. I just started playing tennis 18 months ago. I never played as a kid and you all know that I have no athletic skills. In the spring we formed a 2.5 team at the country club. I played about 5 doubles matches in the spring and I never won a match which was fine since I don't know what in the world I am doing. On Monday I played my first doubles match of the fall season with my friend Carey. It was about 98 degrees outside and we were playing at our competitors courts which were all hard courts--not fun. Anyway, our match lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes and I went through about 4 bottles of Gatorade. But, we won--finally! 2-6, 7-6 and 6-4. Yep, we even had to do a tiebreaker. When I picked up Brennan, I told him we won and he cheered and said "now we get to have bannana splits again!"

Tuesday night, the kids had another soccer game and Brennan scored another goal. After the game we went to get pizza and ice cream to celebrate!