Kearns - Results

With exactly 7 players our 16 & unders boys (and 1 girl) won the 9th Annual Kearns Invitational Water Polo Tournametnt:

Round Robin:

Game 1: TVH 13 vs Colorado O
Game 2: TVH 17 vs Hunter 2
Game 3: TVH 6 vs Kearns 6
Game 4: TVH 10 vs New Mexico 2

Gold Medal Game: TVH vs Kearns

Last year Kearns beat TVH by a score of 9-4 - eight months later TVH beats Kearns by a score of 9-6. It was scary when Elizabeth got her 2nd major foul mid way in the 3rd quarter (1 more and we would have to play a man down - and David our goalie was playing to awesome to even think of switching him in the field). The team really pulled together and took it upon themselves to make sure Elizabeth would not be put in a position to get her 3rd major foul. TVH scored the 1st goal and never looked back. Like I said before David played great! Matt made some awesome outside shots! Jake as usually was up on counters! Andrew was our key defensive player! Elizabeth played well under a stressful (to say the least) situation!!!!!!!!! Jeff sucked it up and played the entire game without asking to go into the goal for rest - big step for Jeff!!!! Who am I missing? Oh yeah Ryan our hero!! Ryan was in the hospital on Monday - Tuesday and part of Wednesday with heat stroke. Ryan's dad (Jeffrey) drove Ryan up on Thursday night and got into Kearns at 1 am and played 9 games (5 of which he did not get a sub) - WOW!!! And to top this off he played great - in fact some of his best water polo!! Really proud of this team!!! We entered in the 15 & under division at the last min - sure glad we did.

We also entered in the 18 & under Boys division - considering we had 3 femals all under 17 years, 5 boys 14 years old, 3 boys 16 years and two boys 17 years old we did pretty good!!! We placed 6th - but more important the players as individuals and as a team took big steps into the next level of play!! This team was made up of the 7 players above and: Alex, Sarah, Erik and Elliott.

A big thanks to Matt Sr and Margie for driving up the kids and helping me watch over the players!!