In the pregame team talk I spoke about Adversity in life as well as Lacrosse and how you can turn it around to a positive and great things can come from bad situations, I wanted to see them turn it around for them as they had worked so hard and committed themselves to this program.
They certainly did that and the boys have showed lots of character in the last 7 days, the game was close all the way through but we went three down in the second half, we rallied with goals from Alex Winton in the first half and then Russell, Scott Dags. Joe Baythorpe came close from a feed from Matt Rowarth but hurt his hand and would join Tig at Hospital later that night with an open Fracture! Joe HHHhhariiss (in a cockney accent) then scored the equalizer when he dodged down the right alley to squeeze himself in front of the crease to finish on his off hand, the bench went crazy! with shouts of Hhhharrrriisssss!
The Defence played well and Elliott Hurry in the goal in the second half made some key stops!
Tim Collins and Grady Fayle and their Wing middies won some important face offs and both have them have had great tournaments making a huge jump from the Gait Cup!
The game finished tied and as Tournament rules it would be Brave-heart which is two Goalkeepers in each goal and two players who take a faceoff to win the ball and go to goal, first goal wins!, we chose Ben Reddy as he can face off, defend and shoot like a cannon!, he didn't win possession and Westfield scored!
We had played a great game and the coaches where prod of the boys for showing they could bounce back, its just a like a penalty shootout in Football and not the nicest way to win or lose a game! On wards and up wards!
I can't say enough about Susan and Simon Smith they took the two boys to hospital and looked after them as we had another game to play! A big thank you from knights, also Alison Cara and Vincent who can't do enough for me and the boys I don't what we would have done without you!
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