Last game for this week; four games at the Waverly festival this weekend. Tonight is the rematch with Grand Ledge; handled them pretty easily on Monday night while I was gone.
They don’t do this at all games, but, at most, they have the starting lineups line up and shake hands and do this pregame ceremony. From left to right, you have the goalie, the 3 defensemen, the 3 middies, and the 3 attack. Both Fric and Frac in the starting lineup tonight. A pretty good example of the height differences between the 5th and 6th graders. I think in this photo 30 and 21 are the only 5th graders.
Matthew got around in this game, played some middie, played some attack, played some defense(!). Cpher was having a good time joking with Matthew after the game…”Now you’re playing on my side of the street!”
Played another good solid game. Got called for ‘warding’; he’s actually doing it a little bit in this picture above. You can’t use your non-stick arm to keep the opponent away from you….if you are blatant about it (and he was blatant about it later) they will blow the play dead and give the other team possession….
Hard to tell there is a Grand Ledge player in there….The defense is doing a good job of rubbing him right out of this play
Matthew clearing the ball forward later on during his time on defense…..
Cpher had a pretty good day back on defense. Took this picture to start the day; there are some small small fifth graders on some of these teams.
One of Five: We are a man down, GL is essentially on a power play, six players in the attacking zone to five for us. They have made a pass over to this guy, but, as happens a lot at this age, the ball is on the ground….
Two of Five: And Cpher, in very short order, has muscled the guy out of the way and is moving the ball out so that he can take possession. Was impressed how quickly and smoothly he did this; whacked the ball to the left and then scooped it up neatly.
Three of Five: And he’s off to the races…..this is a good thing, the penalty is one minute, so, the longer we are in possession of the ball, the less time GL has with the advantage….
Four of Five: They have a lot of guys in pursuit! (when you are a man up, you want to pressure the ball and get it back quickly). And it’s pretty cool that….
Five of Five: He swerved through all of these guys and kept going….
For having a 9-1 win on Monday this game was very close (I’m not even sure we played the same GL team). We were down 2-1 at the half but won 4-2. They parked Cpher out on defense for most of the fourth quarter, subbed everyone but him and finally brought him off the field after we got that fourth goal and there was only a minute or two left.
