Five day week, three games. Hope the weather holds out. The first game is against the second of the two Haslett teams.
We lost, 6-5. Gave up the winning goal with 10 seconds left. But, a pretty decent game for Fric and Frac; if I had goals for the boys this year, then this game accomplished two of them.
We’ll start with Cpher, since when I import pictures they come in alphabetically..
He played a lot; especially in the first quarter it seemed like he was on the field for 9 out of the 10 minutes. Picked up his first penalty of the season when he was a little too obvious about the check he was about to make; the ref really had no choice but to call the penalty it was that blatant.
But if I had one goal for Cpher this year it was to scoop up the ball and head upfield; head so far upfield that one of the middies would have to stay back (past the midfield line). Cpher, in typical Cpher style, is opposed to this plan of mine and says he is content to stay back and hold the fort. But here, you can see he has the ball and is getting the train in motion….and the coach is telling him to go go GO!
And he’s just about to cross midfield here…you can see Matthew waiting to come on the field on the sideline…and telling his brother to go go GO!
These attackers have to stop chasing Cpher because he has crossed midfield and they can’t.
Carried it at least 2/3 of the field before finally passing the ball off and retreating back to his position. Told him after the game if you’re going to run that far, you might as well keep going and take a shot…..we’ll see if we get there this year.
For all that Cpher played in the first quarter it was the absolute reverse for Matthew in the first half; might have only been on the field for a minute or two in each quarter. I know now that it wasn’t by design, but, as we headed out today he was complaining about his leg; the bruises I took a picture of yesterday are very black and blue today and tender to the touch.
But he played a fair bit in the second half and again, more than held his own. He’s playing middie today (I’ll have to ask him if he is consciously not playing center mid or by assignment…I think he’d be good at faceoffs but hasn’t taken one yet).
And Matthew had the ball quite a bit and made some nice rushes at the goal before passing the ball…
One of the pitfalls of taking photos and video (and I was taking pictures today again) is that you spend so much time looking through the viewfinder and you might miss something. And these three pictures lead up to something I completely missed; Matthew’s first goal. Can’t even describe it, I know right after this scrum he picks up the ball and shoots and scores. But I lost the ball and didn’t see it, or him, until it was too late.
If there are photos that make memories of their own, that picture of Fric and Frac a few weeks back is one of them, and well, the picture of Kevin after his one and only goal in lacrosse is one too. So, we wanted to get a picture of Matthew after the game today but well, it just didn’t work out quite the same way.
You can’t have a Frac without a Fric…
The family leaderboard for goals has a tie at the top; Kevin and Matthew with one, this kid still looking to get on the board. Will be a big event when and if he does…certainly expect Matthew to break that tie sooner rather than later.
