Soccer Scoop by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV028000, General Fiction
ISBN: 9780316188968
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1988-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

10

Okay, you Cougars! Show ‘em your stuff, Dougie! Mickey, put ‘em where they belong! Mel, you’ve got the muscle! Billy, try giving me a hand today, what do you say? Cougars! Cougars! Eat ‘em up alive!”

The Blue Sox had won the toss and elected to kick off.

Mac stared down the field toward the center spot as the two teams lined up. He took a deep breath, and the game began.

The kick went toward a Blue Sox halfback, who tried to nudge the ball to one of their forwards. But the Cougars swarmed in and managed to snag it. The halfback was left standing alone as the ball went off in the other direction.

Mickey took control of the ball and led the charge toward the goal, passing it back and forth with Stevie, who paralleled him down the field.

But the Blue Sox weren’t rolling over. Even from his distance, Mac could see that they were all set to play a strong, hard game.

“Set ‘em up, Mickey! Set ‘em up! Watch out for those Blues! In there, Dougie! Find your spot!” His chatter continued as long as the ball was in play.

Every now and then Mickey managed to send the ball through the maze of players to the opposite side of the field. The Cougars had several plays that started out with Stevie on the right side facing the goal. But every time, as though it had a bungee cord attached to it, the ball sprang back to the left side of the field.

“Set it up, Mickey! Come on, Dougie!” Mac called. The Blue Sox defense was tougher than the Cougars had thought it would be, but Mac could tell that they were weakest in the middle. The Cougars had the best chance of scoring by concentrating their efforts there.

Mac knew Dougie was the key to play in the middle. And sure enough, when Dougie got ahold of the ball a moment later, he didn’t give it up easily. He quickly dodged around the Blue Sox sweeper. And then, before the Sox knew what was happening, he took a shot.

The lightning quick move surprised the Sox goalie. The ball sailed into the net, giving the Cougars an early lead.

As the crowd cheered, Mac smiled. A lot of people thought that Dougie was just lucky. Mac knew better. Dougie had an incredible sense of timing, combined with an ability to keep track of everything that was going on around him. It was no wonder he was the team’s leading scorer.

As the two teams gathered back at the center of the field for the next kickoff, Mac could hear Jimmy Palumbo shouting, “Dougie does it! Dougie does it! Go, you Cougars!”

Listening to him suddenly made Mac wonder if he’d been right to put Jimmy at the top of his suspect list. He sure didn’t sound like a guy whose loyalty was with another team.

But the evidence …

Mac didn’t have time to spend thinking about Jimmy. After a brief spell down at the other goal, the action moved toward him.

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