Personal Narrative: Elizabethtown Versus Messiah Men's Soccer Team

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As I walked up to the stadium, the atmosphere was eccentric. My friends and I went to the far right of the stands to it with our teammates on the lacrosse team, who were being rowdy and ignorant. Everyone had been waiting all year for the Elizabethtown versus Messiah men’s soccer game, otherwise known as the marshmallow game. At first I couldn’t believe how the fans were throwing marshmallows at everything in their path, but then a quickly pulled out one of the four bags of marshmallows I bought at the Giant grocery store earlier that day and started unloading marshmallows at the players and the side judge. I basically wasted all four of my marshmallow bags I had throwing them at the side judge and eating them all before the first half was …show more content…
The first half was scoreless and hard to watch, until Gilbert Waso blasted a lefty kick to the top left corner of the goal out of the keepers reach. The crowd went absolutely nuts as intoxicated college student were going berserk cheering for their home team. Gilbert Waso, who we call Gily, is the leader in points on the soccer team and is also a freshmen like me. But even though Elizabethtown scored the mesmerizing goal, Messiah still played an incredibly hard half and made sure to deny Gilbert Waso the ball. In the second half the crowd was vicious smack talking the players and referees, I can only imagine how tough that was for the pure and innocent Messiah players on the field. The tide started to shift towards the Messiah team in the second half. They continued to shut off Gilbert Waso, which made the fans aggravated. The Messiah players did everything to deny Gily the ball, even if it meant roughing him up or sometimes even triple teaming him. The biggest advantage Messiah had in the second half was ball possession. The Blue Jays could not take the ball from them as Messiah was unleashing shots on the