NorthWood-#13 Warsaw 0-4 (0-2)

Warsaw scores twice in the first half due to a couple of defensive miscues. The Tigers add two more goals in the second in a game where the Panthers don't play up to their potential, seem to react too slow in midfield marking and tracking back. The officiating is up to this point (60th minute or so) definitely sub par, if that. But that would change when the center decides to take his whistle skills to an entirely never before seen level on the negative side of the officiating spectrum. When Skyler has to come back from the left and into the box to prevent a 1v1 on Luke, he (Skyler) slides to clear the ball. He gets ALL ball (hence the track of where the ball goes after he slide kicks it -towards the scoreboard/corner-). The Warsaw attacker falls and the center "ref" (read "clown") blows his whistle. He is not close to the play but awards the Tigers a PK (which Warsaw would miss) AND NorthWood a red card! A triple punishment!!!!!!!! One that you don't see anymore these days. So Warsaw gets a PK, we are a man short the rest of the game and we will be without our central defender against Goshen. Just because you wear a yellow shirt doesn't mean you are a referee; point proven! The same goes for the AR on the west side. The 4th Warsaw "goal" came in the 61st when a cross goes in front of Luke in the goal mouth and by the far goal post over the end line for what most people would think is a goal kick. The AR however believes he saw the ball come into the box, go past Luke, go over the goal line, come back out, go by the far post and then over the end line. If that would be physically possible, soccer balls should have turn signals! It can NOT take a left, a right and another left. There is no steering wheel on a soccer ball. So if you came to see three guys in yellow and hoping to see two of them wanting to add a large nose and big shoes to their costume, you came to the right place. It needs said that the Panthers did not play their best game and with some earlier mentioned miscues put themselves behind the 8 ball but it surely does not help when you have incompetent officiating. And that is what we got. The Panthers fall to 4-4-1. The JV lost 0-1. Today's practice will be shorter then normal; we will conclude practice by 4:45 pm.