Gooooaaaal! Cooliris Soccer Showdown

In a breathtaking display of athleticism and mental toughness, the Cooliris Peninsula team defeated the Cooliris San Francisco team by a score of 2-1 on Friday afternoon in the Cooliris Soccer match.

Versatile striker Kelton Lynn, one of the guys who bring you all the TV episodes in Cooliris, drew first blood for the hosts with a powerful first-half strike before fleet-footed midfielder Wayne Greenwood, UI designer and guitarist extraordinaire, clinically tapped in a second to put the game out of reach. Greenwood even contributed brilliantly on the defensive end, diving majestically to prevent San Francisco captain Tom Montgomery (um, a former starter on the Men’s Soccer team at Stanford University) from finding the net.

San Francisco’s Daniel K-Dan Kaemmerer, as lethal with a soccer ball as he is in eliminating bugs, took advantage of a blunder by bug tester-turned-goalkeeper Calen Ipalook to pull one back mid-way through the second half, but the staunch defending of the Peninsula squad proved to be too much. The San Francisco side was also haunted by a severe lack of ball control; recruiter Katie Lampe took a well-struck ball off the side of her head, a ball which had been kicked by one of her very own teammates. Yep, it was just one of those days for the San Franciscans.

The two sides played each other evenly throughout the entire contest, but it was the tactical approach of the Peninsula team that gave them the edge.

Using an age-old strategy known as turtling, the hosts pulled nearly all of their players back to defend at the slightest hint of danger and would only occasionally maraud into opposing territory. However, they took full advantage of their counterattacking opportunities to slip their two goals past Icelandic national team goalkeeper Brian Truebe. The San Francisco strategy of have Truebe intentionally knock over the goal any time they’re about to score was quickly sniffed out and disallowed by referee and Business Development intern Rob Balian.

Once the final whistle had been blown, all combatants convened joyously around delicious burgers and watermelon. More sporting spectacles between the two sides are most certainly on the horizon; the San Francisco team can content themselves with the fact that they’ll get another shot at their Peninsula counterparts sooner rather than later!