Commerce Results

Our team stayed at Carmen's warehouse again - we had some great team games and some good talks on water polo as you can see from the pictures. McCarthy was voted the KING of the team from his awesome play on Sat. he was playing defense against some kids that were huge!!

Four months ago when we went to Commerce I was very happy how we played, this time I am really really really shocked how well we did. See if you can follow this: In Dec our 10's did well and placed 3rd and this was a smaller tournament. Well this 10 team had to play in the 12 & under division - last Dec our 12 team also did pretty good and they got 3rd place - our 12 team would have killed our 10 team - so I am thinking our group this time would get killed. They did not!!! Our 12's got 1st place in their bracket then played winners of other brackets, our only lost came from SET by 3 goals which in my mind we should have prevented at least 4 of their goals. We tied for 3rd with 1 lost and 3 wins. We will be doing some SET shooting drills!!! Good job!!

Our 14's also did a great job: from the scoreboard side we won 3 games and lost 1. But in my books the game we lost I put as a win because we played the best we have ever played and just came up against a team that was very good. Our inexperience played a part of this lost, they were afraid of this team - The Titans: the team that we tied last Dec and they gained about 3-4 bigger players, but we were still in the game and came back in the second half. The last game we beat Rose Bowl by 2 goals but I consider this game a lost because we did not play a very good game, making all kinds of basic mistakes. This tournament was a great experience for our players!!

Everyone behaved, played hard, learned tons and had a great time!!!