Naylor Sports Update

I just thought I would give a quick update as to what the Naylors have been up to. Crew finished a successful high school soccer season. Once again he moved positions to play in the Stopper spot, which is center position between the mid-fielders and the defense. He did very well and was able to take control of the play back in that area. His team made it to the State Playoffs, but after one of the best and most exciting games I have ever seen they were knocked out. Quick synopsis of the game. Crew's school is Palo Verde and they were playing Gorman. At the end of the first half PV was ahead two to one. G is the reigning state champs and favored to killed everyone in their path. With just 8 minutes left in the game G got a penalty kick and made it to tie the score 2 - 2. The game went into over time and G had their hands full. Then into a second overtime where PV had their hands full. Finally the game went into penalty kicks. Each team selects five players to alternate kicking shots against the goalie from 15 out. If tied after five shots they alternate one kicker each until someone wins. Well G missed their first shot and so did PV. Then each team made the next four. G then missed their next shot. If PV made theirs the game would be over. Crew was up to kick but then got called back to allow another kid to kick. Who knows why because this player had not even been in the game. Anyway, all he had to do was make the shot to win the game, but he shanked it left and missed. G made their and Crew then shot and made his. G made another one and then the PV player missed. The loss was heart breaking for everyone. The Gorman team is actually all of the players from Crew's old club team. It would have been nice to beat them, but instead they went all the way to win the State Championship. It was a fun season and we will look forward to next year. Now Crew has Lacrosse to look forward to after the holidays.

Now Powell, Well Powell is playing his first season on a new club team called Las Vegas Premire. The entire team is new so they are having to learn to work together and understand what each other can bring to the game. Powell has also been playing in a lacrosse league on Saturday nights. It just finished up and Powell's team, also know as North Carolina did very well. The team was made up of seventh and eighth grades with Powell being the only sixth grade in the league. Powell got a lot of playing time as an outside mid-fielders and sometimes as Attack (forward). The team only lost one game to a bunch of big eighth graders, but got to get revenge when both teams made it to the championship. NC totally dominated the game with speed and team work and at half time had the other boys on the ropes with a score of 5 to 1. Powell had a great assist to make it 6 to 2 and the final score was 7 to 3. It was a blast to watch and a great warm up to the regular season. Powell's looking forward to getting back out there and knocking the big boys down.

As for Breck, she is still at the top of the tower in cheerleading. Her team, Desert Cheer Extreme, has not started competing yet this year, but she is excited to get going. She did have an unfortunate fall during a practice the other night and luckily she didn't get hurt but one of the girls below her in her base broke her collar bone. I cheerleading is a contact sport. We will keep you updated as the seasons progresses.

Take care everyone.