June 2, 2015
Connor's May Post
Hi guys,
May saw the first rounds of Inter High tournament qualifications commence. To qualify for Inter High your school has to come first or second in the qualifying tournament and this year Seiritsu's first match was against local rivals and fellow Tokyo heavyweights, Teikyo.
The game was played at a mutual location, Musashi High School, where a fairly large crowd of about 500 people turned up. The game went quite evenly for the first 60 minutes until Teikyo managed to capitalise on a controversial free kick. However five minutes later, after some good play down the left wing, Seiritsu were able to draw level which took the tie to extra time. Extra time went by very quickly and without many clear cut chances so the game was off to penalties. I was up to take the first penalty and slotted it nicely into the left corner. Unfortunately some of my team mates weren't as lucky and missed their spot kicks which meant we were knocked out 4-2 on penalties.
This unwanted result meant that the unwanted period of fitness training began as there are no important matches to be played for nearly a month. The fitness training has so far saw us run nearly about 100 laps of the Infamous running course in total but hopefully it works out and we can qualify for the Winter tournament!
Good bye!