Day 3 - Win 5-4 Vs Florida/Carolina

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The game was scheduled for 11am and we woke up and got some breakfast from the cafeteria. The lads are already used to the life here and are really growing very close, they are very different but have a common goal and always having fun together and no one is left out and always making the coaches laugh. From foxy chilling in his boxers in the hall way and doing his shopping trolly and lawn mower dance to Burkey.......well being Burkey!

Coach Zac Guy had arrived and brought his Georgetown team mate Tyler Knarr to help out with face offs, it was great to have some help and they bring with them w either of knowledge from NCAA DI Lacrosse. 

We where not satisfied with the performance from the night before although we knew that we had shown a lot of character to come back from behind to win. We where also under no illusion that we could play better but knew that we still getting used to the speed of the game and coming together as a team, we wanted to have the same relaxed attitude to take any pressure from the players and asked them to concentrate on shooting and cleaning up our passing that had been sloppy the day before.

The game started with Chas winning a ton of face offs and creating chances for us pushing the ball forward to create fast breaks. Although we went behind we looked dangerous and had a real driving force in TJ in midfield and Matt Smith. Dan Aspin and Ben Page-Laycock come close to scoring.

We seemed to have shot after shot although they punished us for our mistakes and just before halftime we found ourselves 2 down, TJ Scored just before halftime on a hard dodge and he shot around his defender to finish. The coaches tried to settle the team down and we tried to change our offence to make the passes shorter and to stop the defenders pushing out adjacent on us. We want back in and scored a scrappy goal from Matt Smith after clearing the ball the length of the field and then Joe Baythorpe off a pretty feed from Billy. Before we knew it the game was again tied and the we went ahead late in the game. Carolina/Florida had a late possession and Chopper made the clutch play of the game - knocking the ball down and clearing to secure the win.

Sam Harris is now known as "Chopper", "Tapper", Oli's fovorite "the tickler" and now "Clutch"

Again we returned to Stine halls happy with the win but not satisfied with the win, we knew we could play better and when we did we would do it in style!

Goals from TJ Burgess, Matt Smith, Billy Kershaw, Joe Baythorpe and Will Cornwell.   

Assists; Billy Kershaw