Last weekend was largely spent at home, relaxing after a busy week at work. Saturday night (3 October), I was parked in front of my laptop computer, watching Saint Louis FC (https://www.saintlouisfc.com/) host Indy Eleven (https://www.indyeleven.com/) in the final USL Championship (https://www.uslsoccer.com/usl-championship) regular season match. It was played at West Community Stadium of World Wide Technology Soccer Park, and streamed on ESPN+ (https://www.espn.com/espnplus/?om-navmethod=topnav).
This could have been Saint Louis FC's final match ever (the team is folding after this season), but the home side came through with a 2-1 victory. This enabled Saint Louis FC to finish second in their group and advance to the USL Championship Playoffs. They will play away to Hartford United (https://www.hartfordathletic.com/) this Saturday (10 October), at 6:00 pm Central Time. Yes, I was happy that Saint Louis FC plays at least one more match in its existence. My fellow St. Louligans (https://stlouligans.com/) are certainly happy. We may have a watch party for this match. Don't know yet as I write this.
The next night (4 October) saw me at Sportport International (http://www.sportportintl.com/) in Maryland Heights. I was there to referee two St. Louis Youth Soccer Association (https://www.slysa.org/) under 13 boys matches. The first match started a bit later than scheduled, as the field hockey training session on our field had to end and our field readied for our match. This was my first match since last March, and I was concerned how I would do. Soon, it wasn't such as problem, as it ended up an 11-1 result. The winning side was much better, and fortunately no real problems occurred for me to deal with.
The second match of the night was much closer, it ending up a 2-1 result. It was a much more competitive match, and a bit rougher--I had to issue three yellow cards to keep it under control. All was well in the end, though.
Later.
