G'day everyone,
The weather is finally starting to heat up! On a warm March Sunday the NYiT Bears defeated the Wheeling Jesuit Cardinals 19-2. First mention has to go to the coaching staff who, despite only seeing the opposition play once, had the team prepared and mentally focused on the challenge ahead.
Week by week the defense improves and Sunday was no exception, holding the Cardinals to only 2 goals. Once again the efforts of Patrick Rogin (MVP of the game) , Josh Kacprzack, Andrew Maurer, Willie Grossklaus, and Dan Quinn at LSM helped NYiT to a solid victory. Behind the defense, Chris Powers had his usual solid game in the cage. Although he only faced 23 shots he stayed focused the entire game and made the crucial saves when needed.
The number one offense in the country continued its success scoring 19 goals for the second consecutive week. Keith Henderson had his usual high output scoring 8 points on 5 goals and 3 assists. For the second straight week Matt Messina had 3 goals and 3 assists but Coach Kaley was mostly impressed with his riding and hustle once again. Matt Sullivan chipped in 3 goals and 1 assist despite only playing 2 quarters.
The Long Island Three Party had another solid day at the face-off X. Although not winning as many as previous weeks they still won a combined 15-24 which allowed us to control the tempo of the game. Throughout the week in practice we work on controlling the tempo and getting up and down the field as quickly as possible. Without good face-off personel a "run and gun" style of lacrosse is not possible.
Also deserving of a mention was Keith Clancy. Although it is not an official statistic and therefor does not appear in the box score, clearing the ball is paramount in winning lacrosse games. Keith Clancy did this all day running the ball safely from defense to offense and like face-offs, clearing is extremely important for the run and gun style.
A few more notes. We had a few first goals of the season. Matthew Ryan aka. Ryan Matthews scored his first goal for Tech after transferring in from Nassau. Freshman Jason Opitz scored his first career goal and yours truly finally scored a goal after going 0-10 in our previous two games. We out groundballed Wheeling Jesuit 56-33. This is Coach Kaley's favorite statistic and usually the first one he checks. Every practice Coach emphasizes groundballs and this usually translates over to games.The more groundballs you have the more possessions, the more possessions the more potential to score goals.
The team now travels to Colorado to take on Colorado College on Saturday night and Air Force (scrimmage) on Tuesday. Next week is Spring Break and like many college teams around the country we don't really get to enjoy it by flying to Cancun. Having said that, next week will be a lot of fun and I hope to have many stories to share (and hopefully another victory to report on). Until then take care, enjoy Spring Break.
U.S Lacrosse was at the game to take some photos. To see them go to the following link.
http://www.laxmagazine.com/multimedia/photos/2008-09 /030909_wheelingjesuitnyit_leeweissman
-Rob
The weather is finally starting to heat up! On a warm March Sunday the NYiT Bears defeated the Wheeling Jesuit Cardinals 19-2. First mention has to go to the coaching staff who, despite only seeing the opposition play once, had the team prepared and mentally focused on the challenge ahead.
Week by week the defense improves and Sunday was no exception, holding the Cardinals to only 2 goals. Once again the efforts of Patrick Rogin (MVP of the game) , Josh Kacprzack, Andrew Maurer, Willie Grossklaus, and Dan Quinn at LSM helped NYiT to a solid victory. Behind the defense, Chris Powers had his usual solid game in the cage. Although he only faced 23 shots he stayed focused the entire game and made the crucial saves when needed.
The number one offense in the country continued its success scoring 19 goals for the second consecutive week. Keith Henderson had his usual high output scoring 8 points on 5 goals and 3 assists. For the second straight week Matt Messina had 3 goals and 3 assists but Coach Kaley was mostly impressed with his riding and hustle once again. Matt Sullivan chipped in 3 goals and 1 assist despite only playing 2 quarters.
The Long Island Three Party had another solid day at the face-off X. Although not winning as many as previous weeks they still won a combined 15-24 which allowed us to control the tempo of the game. Throughout the week in practice we work on controlling the tempo and getting up and down the field as quickly as possible. Without good face-off personel a "run and gun" style of lacrosse is not possible.
Also deserving of a mention was Keith Clancy. Although it is not an official statistic and therefor does not appear in the box score, clearing the ball is paramount in winning lacrosse games. Keith Clancy did this all day running the ball safely from defense to offense and like face-offs, clearing is extremely important for the run and gun style.
A few more notes. We had a few first goals of the season. Matthew Ryan aka. Ryan Matthews scored his first goal for Tech after transferring in from Nassau. Freshman Jason Opitz scored his first career goal and yours truly finally scored a goal after going 0-10 in our previous two games. We out groundballed Wheeling Jesuit 56-33. This is Coach Kaley's favorite statistic and usually the first one he checks. Every practice Coach emphasizes groundballs and this usually translates over to games.The more groundballs you have the more possessions, the more possessions the more potential to score goals.
The team now travels to Colorado to take on Colorado College on Saturday night and Air Force (scrimmage) on Tuesday. Next week is Spring Break and like many college teams around the country we don't really get to enjoy it by flying to Cancun. Having said that, next week will be a lot of fun and I hope to have many stories to share (and hopefully another victory to report on). Until then take care, enjoy Spring Break.
U.S Lacrosse was at the game to take some photos. To see them go to the following link.
http://www.laxmagazine.com/multimedia/photos/2008-09 /030909_wheelingjesuitnyit_leeweissman
-Rob
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