It was a freezing cold day outside and my team and I were up early for our first game. It was my first year of being on a girls travel hockey team and we were going to be in our first tournament of the season. For a lot of us it was our first tournament ever and we were nervous. The tournament was in St. Paul. We got to the rink early in the morning so we could watch some of the other teams. The team we were playing wasn’t in our district and we didn't know how good they were. Even though it was just a game like any game we played before I was afraid. The game started and after a couple minutes we were fine and we played just like any other game.
In the game I had checked one of the girls from the other team into the boards. The ref didn't blow the whistle right away and I thought that he didn't see it, but I was wrong. I had never gotten a penalty before and I was shocked that I had even done that. The ref pointed his finger at me and said, "number 17." I was afraid that I was going to get yelled at or kicked out of the game, but all I had to do was sit there for two minutes. I thought, "this isn't so bad, maybe I'll get a penalty more often now." In the second period we were tied 2-2 and we were so excited because we had to win every game to win the tournament and if we lost this we could only get 5th place. In the last period we were losing 3-2 and we knew if we could at least tie it we could go into overtime. The game was close, but we ended up losing 3-2. We were upset because we knew we couldn't win the tournament, but we really wanted to win the next game. We worked harder this time and won 6-0. We knew if we won the next game we could still get 5th place. The last game we were really close. Every time we scored they would score too. We went into overtime. We were a extremely tired and we didn't have much energy left, but we kept on playing. We finally won 5-4. The trophy was tall and had red and gold stripes and we got medals that said 5th place on it. We were a little upset that we didn't win, we still got 5th place and had fun. 
I liked how you explained your very first penalty. I think you could have used a few different words in your paragraphs.
ReplyDeleteI like how you explained your nerves, the trophy, and your first penalty. You could use some different describing words in the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteGreat story.... I liked how you explained everything! Maybe you could use a bit more descriptive words though!!:)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on winning your first hockey game!! I liked how you said that you checked a girl and you felt afraid to go in the penalty box. One thing I noticed was you were missing some of your punctuation.
ReplyDeleteP.S. You shouldn't be put into the penalty box. Naughty Naughty.
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