Monday, January 25, 2010

TVH take home the Gold

Congrats to the Masters for another Gold performance. We got lucky and the rain stopped just before the tournament began, it was a very nice weekend in the sun.

We beat ASU 7-6, we were behind the entire game till the last min.. great defense in the fourth was the key and a little help from Gary! Second game against New Mexico we won by 3 goals..going into the 4th we were up by 6 or 7 goals and did not control the game clock and we were not very smart on defense. They came back and could have beaten us. Third game of the day was against the Scottsdale "B" team played well and won by 10 goals (heard the Scottsdale players had bets going, over and under 12 goals) They were great guys and gals.

Drew (our former TVH player - who is now coaching the Scottsdale Team) had a bbq for all the teams at his house. Awesome big burgers - hot dogs - chips - dip and light beer.. Thanks Drew.

Sunday we played Scottsdale "A" and we started the 1st half shooting into the sun and Marcus was in the cage facing the sun and could not see.. to top all this off the pool was foggy and we were white caps. First half it was close, we did not press the outside so they made almost everything they put up if they were not pressed. Then we switched ends and by then the sun and fog were not a big factor and only had 1 goal scored against us and that was a 5 mt (via Gary's Gift to the host team). In the Gold Game we were matched up with ASU again, this time as usual they had new players from other teams playing against us. We came out with 3 quick goals and they could not rebound and we beat them by 4 goals.

I heard one of our players saying we were 15-0 in Arizona... this is not a stat we should be keeping track of... we should be looking at stat's like: 1st tournament 30 plus turn overs - 2nd tournament 10 turnovers - 3rd tournament 20 turnovers. We should and are proud of that record but the real goal here is to keep improving as players, coaches and as a team.

Congrats: Marcus, Peter, Jacint, Cody, Edwin, Max, Ben, Thor, Robert, Joe and Louie.

1 comment:

Mark St. John said...

Good job you guys! Wish I was there!