The Dream is Dead

 That's it. It's all over. We lost in the semi finals tonight, by 3 points. We came in flying high, with intensity. We left, battered and broken.

Game started on offense, where we weren't able to score on our opening drive from the 5 yard line. 

We made the stop, then drove down for the touchdown and 2 pt conversion. Then they started scoring, I got beat 3 times for touchdowns, twice by getting boxed out by someone huge, and once by someone just running a nice route. 

We did a down out and up the scored a huge touchdown to pull us within 4, me catching it and running scross the field for the long touchdown. Then I caught an interception in our end zone, giving us the ball back. But then, the worst two minutes of our season.

We tried another down out and up but Ari overthrew it, right to the defender. They scored. Then, we got the ball back, and we immediately threw a pick six. Not a great two minutes. We did drive down and Ari threw me a very deep pass down the sideline that I jumped up and tumbled and then caught, and then Ari threw me a touchdown on the left side of the end zone. 

Then they got the ball, tried to pop a ball over me, which I caught on a dive for the interception. I then caught a touchdown in the back of the end zone, bringing the game within 3. But we would never get another chance on offense, as they were able to enter victory formation.

Hurts so bad, because I would have loved to be in that dogfight and taken the lead while down four. But it wasn't to be. And now it actually hurts so much that we aren't going to be in the championship next week that I so wanted to be. 

It was a great season, where everyone got better, which was fun to see. There were amazing moments, and it was really fun to play with Ari as my QB again, and with my dad on the team. But the lasting image for will be the entire blue team running in after Shlomo who got the pick six to basically ice the game. 

This pain will burn and fuel our offseason workouts as we work hard for next season.