christmas is coming

8 days til Christmas...

12 days til Christmas

A video showing all how an Indian Christmas is celebrated

snow day...never mind

So we close on Wednesday for sonw. Last night we got evne more snow than we did on Wednesday. But we don't close today. We are just wasting our lives away here at school because they on't want to close school

christmas lights special

someone had way too much time to do this.

unrelated soccer topic

my NFL team, the Cleveland Browns, could possibly make the playoffs. For a team that was considered worthless at the beginning of the season, making the playoffs would be unbelievable. Go Browns!

all district honors

Roger Abdalla got 2nd team All-Central Disrict honors, and Joe Hackney got 1st Team.

all league honors

Myself, Alex Johnson, Roger Abdalla, Ryan Rausch, and Joe Hackney all recieved 1st team All-NCSL. Austin Burns recieved 2nd team All-NCSL, and Nick Reed recieved Honorable Mention.

soccer banquet

our soccer banquet is tonight. hope there is good food.

state champs

Springfield Central Central won the D3boys soccer state finals on Friday over Hawken 2-1 in OT. The team that knocked us out of the tournament, Worthington Christian, made it all the way to the state semifinals before losing to Springfield.

sick

i hate having the flu.

why are we here?

not a philosphical question. Our middle school dooesn't have school today due to a fuel leak. So why those connecting high school with some classes in the middle school have school today? Make any sense? Not to anyone here it doesn't. I'll just have to make sure I don't inhale fumes today.

inspiring speech

football playoff tonight

The Fairbanks football team plays West Jefferson in the first round of the playoffs tonight. Good luck to the Panthers. Here is an inspiring speech they should hear before they go out and win.

so...

so, due to a lack of planning, i'm running out of ideas for this blog. Didn't really plan with the season ending with nine weeks left. So i'll probably post little bits of team info along the way.

halloween

here is a halloween prank gone wrong

season over

Our season ended on Saturday with a district final loss to Worthington Christian 3-1. While they were the defending state champs, I think that if we developed a halfway agressive attack, we could have won. Derrick Dupuis had six saves, and Ryan Rausch scored with two minutes left to prevent the shutout. Our record ended at 15-2-3, the best in Fairbanks history.

district finals

For the first time in Fairbanks soccer, the Panthers advanced to the district finals with a 2-1 victory over #2 Fisher Catholic. Alex Johnson hit the game winner from a free kick from 20 yards out with time running out. When the ball went in, there were 2 seconds left in overtime. Roger Abdalla started the scoring off in 35th minute of the first half. Fisher Catholic scored five minutes into the second half when a long shot took a bad hop and bounced over Derrick Dupuis. The defense held the Irish to only 6 shots on goal.

Now we play Saturday at home against Worthington Christian for the district. They are the defending state champs, but we have the home field. The game will probably be in the afternoon, so we can play on our soccer field and not the football field.

tournament victory

On Saturday we beat Grandview Heights 1-0 to advance to the district semi-finals, the farthest any Fairbanks soccer team has made it. Roger Abdalla scored midway through the second half and the defense prevented any goals. We are now 14-1-3, most wins in any season. Now we travel to #2 Fisher Catholic on Wednesday.

game saturday

We play our first tournament game Saturday at Grandview at 4:00. It supposed to be rainy, so their turf field will be slick. Still, they are a good team, despite their .500 record. We will have to play well to beat them.

funny soccer video

pretty funny

tie saturday, tuesday forfeit

We tied Johnstown again last Saturday 0-0. It was a hard, physical matchup again. Our 1st tourney game on Tues. was cancelled due to Mount Vernon Academy withdrawing due to exams. Wouldn't have mattered anyway. Our next game is against Grandview Heights on Saturday.

win

We won our last regular season game with a 4-0 victory over Grove City Christian. Lucas Esterline had 2 goals and Ryan and Roger each added another. Matt had 3 saves. Our next game is our Conference tournament game against Johnstown at 6:30 on Saturday. Now we are 12-1-2.

game tonight

we play grove city christian tonight at 5:00. It is going to be very cold and rainy. Sounds like perfect soccer weather.

fitting song

a song that defines our conference season.

11-1-2

We picked up another win yesterday on Senior Night against Ben Logan 3-1. Ryan Rausch, Alex Johnson, and Roger Abdalla each scored, and Matt McKee had 8 saves. Now 5th in D3, we play Grove City Christian on Thursday at 5:00

1st loss, but...

We lost on Saturday to JA 1-0. They scored in the 1st minute and our offense never generated much of a attack. We are now 10-1-2. Tonight is Senior Night against Ben Logan at 5:00.
On another note, the district tournament bracket is out. We are ranked 5th in D3. We play Mount Vernon Academy at home next Tuesday at 5:00 in the 1st round.

another win

We improved to 10-0-2 and 4-0-1 in league play with a 4-0 win over Buckeye Valley. Ryan Rausch had a hat trick and Austin Burns had a throw in go off the goalkeeper. Derrick DuPuis and Matt McKee combined for 8 saves. Our next game is Saturday morning against Jonathan Alder at 10 AM

good and bad

We won last night over Gahanna Christian 9-0. It was 3-0 at halftime, but we scored 3 goals in the first 2:27 of the 2nd half. Ryan Rausch led the scoring with 4 goals. We are now 9-0-2 with a huge game Thursday at Buckeye Valley to decide who plays for the league championship.
On another note, we dropped down in the latest polls from 7th to 9th. Even though we are undefeated, we've tied #4 Johnstown and #7 Delaware Christian, and beat #5 Tree of Life in a scrimmage without an subs, yet they jumped up ahead of us. I guess being 9-0-2 doesn't give you any respect in the polls.

tie game

Last night we tied #6 Johnstown 1-1. Alex Johnson scored in the first half off a Austin Burns cross, but Johnstown scored 10 minutes into the second half. We are now 8-0-2 overall and 3-0-1 in league play. Our next game is Monday at home against Gahanna Christian at 5:00.

game tonight

Big game tonight at Johnstown at 5:00. Probably going to rain the whole game.

game postponed

Our game against JA was cancelled last night when it started to lightning right when we started our warm-ups. As of now there is no make-up date.

new polls

We moved up to 7th in the d3 polls. This week is huge for us with a game tonight against JA, who is 10th in D2. Thursday we take on #6 in D3 Johnstown for the confernce lead. The poll is on http://blog.dispatch.com/hsfallsports/.

another win

Although our shutout streak was snapped at 5 games, we won agin last night against River Valley 5-2. Roger Abdalla had a hat trick and Joe Hackney added two goals. We shot over 20 shots on goal. Our record is now 8-0-1. Our next game is a huge one, at rival Jonathan Alder Tuesday at 5:00.

ugly win

On Tuesday our soccer team improved to 7-0-1 with a 5-0 win over West Jefferson. It was a really bad game for us. We weren't creating any offense. It was only 1-0 until about 20 minutes left in the game. Then we scored 4 goals in 2 minutes. Hopefully we can play a lot better on Thursday against conference foe River Valley. It's at 5:00 at our field.

Polls are messed up

Somehow, after beating Tree of Life in a scrimmage 1-0, tying Delaware Christian 1-1, and beating Wellington 3-0 isn't enough for us to move up in the D3 polls. We stayed 10th in the latest poll, behind all three teams. Makes a lot of sense doesn't it?

victory

On Saturday, the Fairbanks soccer team played the Wellington Jaguars, winning 3-0. Alex Johnson, Ryan Rausch, and Kyle Weese all scored, and the defense and Derrick Dupuis shut out their offense. Our record is now 5-0-1. Next game: @ West Jefferson Tuesday Sept. 18

first post

This is for school, so i figured i might have it about the soccer team. So far our team is 5-0-1, and ranked 10th in D3. Next game: @ #5 Wellington