G'day,
The NYIT Bears got back on the right track on Tuesday by defeating the Notre Dame de Namur Argos 17-8. It was a well rounded win with both sides of the field playing a solid game and dominating ground balls in the middle of the field. Two things stood out in the game. Keith Henderson took over two NYIT scoring records. He now owns the goal scoring record and the point scoring record so a big congratulations goes out to Hendo for such an amazing achievement. With so many great lacrosse players coming out of Tech it is not easy to stand out but he certainly has done that during his career at NYIT.
The other key stat to come out of our game Tuesday was the groundball war. We won the groundballs 59-19 which is quite an effort. We were coming off three straight games where we lost the groundball battle which could be a first in NYIT lacrosse history so the players took it personally and wanted to come out and put forth a solid effort and hustle on groundballs.
It's not too hard to figure out that every single player on the team was dissapointed with the loss to our neighbors C.W Post on Saturday. It is typically the first game we circle on the schedule every year and we get very excited to play in the tough, intense game but to come out of it with a loss is especially painful. Having said that, depsite the tough road we have ahead (we basically have to win every game on the remaining schedule) we are ready for the challenge. After many talks with the coaches and many hours breaking down the film from Post to fix all the wrongs we feel we are ready to move on and now focus on Seton Hill.
We leave Friday morning for Greensburg, PA to take on a team we played last year in Seton Hill. They return a lot of their players from last year so we are expecting another tough game. No game on our schedule is a push over so we must prepare for this game like we would Post or Adelphi. We had perhaps our toughest "work day" practice of the year today but it was definitely the most productive so we feel that we are back on track and ready to take the remaining games one at a time and hopefully come out at the end with a birth in the NCAA's.
I will hopefully get another entry in when we return from Greensburg, until then take care...
-Rob
The NYIT Bears got back on the right track on Tuesday by defeating the Notre Dame de Namur Argos 17-8. It was a well rounded win with both sides of the field playing a solid game and dominating ground balls in the middle of the field. Two things stood out in the game. Keith Henderson took over two NYIT scoring records. He now owns the goal scoring record and the point scoring record so a big congratulations goes out to Hendo for such an amazing achievement. With so many great lacrosse players coming out of Tech it is not easy to stand out but he certainly has done that during his career at NYIT.
The other key stat to come out of our game Tuesday was the groundball war. We won the groundballs 59-19 which is quite an effort. We were coming off three straight games where we lost the groundball battle which could be a first in NYIT lacrosse history so the players took it personally and wanted to come out and put forth a solid effort and hustle on groundballs.
It's not too hard to figure out that every single player on the team was dissapointed with the loss to our neighbors C.W Post on Saturday. It is typically the first game we circle on the schedule every year and we get very excited to play in the tough, intense game but to come out of it with a loss is especially painful. Having said that, depsite the tough road we have ahead (we basically have to win every game on the remaining schedule) we are ready for the challenge. After many talks with the coaches and many hours breaking down the film from Post to fix all the wrongs we feel we are ready to move on and now focus on Seton Hill.
We leave Friday morning for Greensburg, PA to take on a team we played last year in Seton Hill. They return a lot of their players from last year so we are expecting another tough game. No game on our schedule is a push over so we must prepare for this game like we would Post or Adelphi. We had perhaps our toughest "work day" practice of the year today but it was definitely the most productive so we feel that we are back on track and ready to take the remaining games one at a time and hopefully come out at the end with a birth in the NCAA's.
I will hopefully get another entry in when we return from Greensburg, until then take care...
-Rob
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