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-- As if everyone didn't hear about it already, our very own Lancer Lacrosse team won their season opener against Hilton to the tune of 11-10. It was a double overtime thriller that featured a spectacular shot by Kevin Mahler to win it for us. The celebration afterwards wasn't the classiest thing we could've done (Everybody storms onto the field parading about as the Hilton men march to the bench with tears in their eyes), but it was the heat of the moment. Twenty four hours later I am still ridiculously happy at the outcome of the match-up. We went on a tear midway through the second quarter and went up 5-2 after falling 2-0 early to them. The Cadets answered back with three quick ones to tie it up at halftime.
The game swayed back and forth until Hilton took a 8-7 lead early in the fourth. Three quick goals by each of our attack gave us a 10-8 lead with minutes remaining. Unfortuntaley, due to penalties and bad ball control on offense Hilton was able to tie it up and force it into overtime. But right before the end of regulation our very own Dirty Wirth got another penalty. Sending us man-down to start the overtime.
Our defense stepped it up, and most significantly, Eugene stepped it up making some incredible saves to keep us in the game. The five minute overtime period expired with no real oppertunities for either team aside from Hilton's man-up. Originally I thought it would be called a tie, but I was wrong as I quickly found out another overtime would be played.
The second overtime began with our sophomore face-off stud Adam Sisson taking it from douchebag Jeff Delong. We lost possession after a failed thunder attempt and we all held our breaths as we needed our defense to hold on one more time. They did so and we took advantage. Coach wisely took a time out to set up a play. Basically because it's a widely known fact that Mahler has the best stamina in the tri-county area and we assumed the majority of their midfielders would be gassed (They pretty much played the same four guys throughout the game), our plan was to give it to kev and let him beat the guy. Todd started with it, passed it to Kev then he made his move towards cage. He was stopped by some asshole from UzBekhistan, and was forced to retreat momentarily. I thought he was going to pass it up to Alex or myself, but he winded up and whipped one past the goalie for the win. Then chaos pursued as we dog-piled ontop of our man and the entire Hilton squad fell to their knees. It was a storybook moment that I will remember for the rest of my life.
We're 1-0 and have Spencerport this Saturday. Spencerport is also 1-0 after toppling Greece 9-8 yesterday. 1:30, at McAvoy (I think. If I'm wrong please correct me) if you're interested in watching the most exciting Eastridge Lancer sport team since the '04 football squad.
--The Final Four is set. I picked two right out of four, which is not as good as I would've liked, but my favorite team is still in. Obviously I am pulling for them to win, and i believe they will do so as they are the most experienced and most talented team left in the field. This year's tournament hasn't had as much parody in comparison to years past (George Mason made it to the final four last year whereas this years lowest seed in the elite eight was Oregon as a three seed), but that's OK because the quality of games - for the most part- has been really fun to watch and very exciting. Georgetown got lucky against Vanderbilt because homeboy traveled and I have beef with that. Vandy was representin' the SEC and those vanilla faces took it away from them.
I am excited to watch the matchup of Ohio ST. vs Georgetown. 7'1 Oden vs 7'2 Hibbert. Everybody knows that the Buckeyes guards are supeior to the Hoya's, but not by much. I think Ohio St will win convincinly on the back of Oden as he shoots himself past Durant (assuming most people believe Durant is better than him) on his way to becoming the number one overall pick in the NBA draft.
--Our school newspaper "The Oracle" has almost completely run out of money. Instead of running our standard eight page issue we have to run a four page issue this month. And we probably won't have enough money to do another one. Just letting people know because I know that it is the highlight of everybody's day when they catch a rare copy of "The Oracle."
--As the NFL draft creeps closer and closer everyday I think it's fairly obvious at this point that Calvin Johnson is the best player in the draft. As big, strong, fast, and amazing he is, he still won't go number one. But I mean if he is going to be hoodwinked by somebody it mine as well be some Daunte Caulpepper. On Sportscenter they were showing clips of the LSU private Pro-Day Workouts and Jamarcus Russell was overthrowing all of his recievers. I suppose this might be a bad thing, but in his defense, they were like ninety yards downfield. Mel Kiper Jr. said that when Russell gets drafted, he will have the strongest arm in the NFL. That's a bolg statement from a man with a bold hairstyle. I will always be partial to the arm strength of Michael Vick for a number of reasons. In college he threw a pass forty five yards on a dime to his reciever, with his right hand. In his lone start in his rookie year (week 17 in Miami) he rolled out to the right, and at about the 50 yard line threw it across his body to his reciever on the one yard line. It wasn't a lob either. But lastly, and most importantly, Michael Vick was in that Powerade commercial. You can watch it here...
http://ehslax22.blogspot.com/2006/12/two-best-commercials-of-all-time.html
Only downfall with Vick is that he was packin' a substance that boasted an aroma closely associated with marijuana in a hidden compartment in his water bottle.
--TOM L. RULEZzZ!!!
-- As if everyone didn't hear about it already, our very own Lancer Lacrosse team won their season opener against Hilton to the tune of 11-10. It was a double overtime thriller that featured a spectacular shot by Kevin Mahler to win it for us. The celebration afterwards wasn't the classiest thing we could've done (Everybody storms onto the field parading about as the Hilton men march to the bench with tears in their eyes), but it was the heat of the moment. Twenty four hours later I am still ridiculously happy at the outcome of the match-up. We went on a tear midway through the second quarter and went up 5-2 after falling 2-0 early to them. The Cadets answered back with three quick ones to tie it up at halftime.
The game swayed back and forth until Hilton took a 8-7 lead early in the fourth. Three quick goals by each of our attack gave us a 10-8 lead with minutes remaining. Unfortuntaley, due to penalties and bad ball control on offense Hilton was able to tie it up and force it into overtime. But right before the end of regulation our very own Dirty Wirth got another penalty. Sending us man-down to start the overtime.
Our defense stepped it up, and most significantly, Eugene stepped it up making some incredible saves to keep us in the game. The five minute overtime period expired with no real oppertunities for either team aside from Hilton's man-up. Originally I thought it would be called a tie, but I was wrong as I quickly found out another overtime would be played.
The second overtime began with our sophomore face-off stud Adam Sisson taking it from douchebag Jeff Delong. We lost possession after a failed thunder attempt and we all held our breaths as we needed our defense to hold on one more time. They did so and we took advantage. Coach wisely took a time out to set up a play. Basically because it's a widely known fact that Mahler has the best stamina in the tri-county area and we assumed the majority of their midfielders would be gassed (They pretty much played the same four guys throughout the game), our plan was to give it to kev and let him beat the guy. Todd started with it, passed it to Kev then he made his move towards cage. He was stopped by some asshole from UzBekhistan, and was forced to retreat momentarily. I thought he was going to pass it up to Alex or myself, but he winded up and whipped one past the goalie for the win. Then chaos pursued as we dog-piled ontop of our man and the entire Hilton squad fell to their knees. It was a storybook moment that I will remember for the rest of my life.
We're 1-0 and have Spencerport this Saturday. Spencerport is also 1-0 after toppling Greece 9-8 yesterday. 1:30, at McAvoy (I think. If I'm wrong please correct me) if you're interested in watching the most exciting Eastridge Lancer sport team since the '04 football squad.
--The Final Four is set. I picked two right out of four, which is not as good as I would've liked, but my favorite team is still in. Obviously I am pulling for them to win, and i believe they will do so as they are the most experienced and most talented team left in the field. This year's tournament hasn't had as much parody in comparison to years past (George Mason made it to the final four last year whereas this years lowest seed in the elite eight was Oregon as a three seed), but that's OK because the quality of games - for the most part- has been really fun to watch and very exciting. Georgetown got lucky against Vanderbilt because homeboy traveled and I have beef with that. Vandy was representin' the SEC and those vanilla faces took it away from them.
I am excited to watch the matchup of Ohio ST. vs Georgetown. 7'1 Oden vs 7'2 Hibbert. Everybody knows that the Buckeyes guards are supeior to the Hoya's, but not by much. I think Ohio St will win convincinly on the back of Oden as he shoots himself past Durant (assuming most people believe Durant is better than him) on his way to becoming the number one overall pick in the NBA draft.
--Our school newspaper "The Oracle" has almost completely run out of money. Instead of running our standard eight page issue we have to run a four page issue this month. And we probably won't have enough money to do another one. Just letting people know because I know that it is the highlight of everybody's day when they catch a rare copy of "The Oracle."
--As the NFL draft creeps closer and closer everyday I think it's fairly obvious at this point that Calvin Johnson is the best player in the draft. As big, strong, fast, and amazing he is, he still won't go number one. But I mean if he is going to be hoodwinked by somebody it mine as well be some Daunte Caulpepper. On Sportscenter they were showing clips of the LSU private Pro-Day Workouts and Jamarcus Russell was overthrowing all of his recievers. I suppose this might be a bad thing, but in his defense, they were like ninety yards downfield. Mel Kiper Jr. said that when Russell gets drafted, he will have the strongest arm in the NFL. That's a bolg statement from a man with a bold hairstyle. I will always be partial to the arm strength of Michael Vick for a number of reasons. In college he threw a pass forty five yards on a dime to his reciever, with his right hand. In his lone start in his rookie year (week 17 in Miami) he rolled out to the right, and at about the 50 yard line threw it across his body to his reciever on the one yard line. It wasn't a lob either. But lastly, and most importantly, Michael Vick was in that Powerade commercial. You can watch it here...
http://ehslax22.blogspot.com/2006/12/two-best-commercials-of-all-time.html
Only downfall with Vick is that he was packin' a substance that boasted an aroma closely associated with marijuana in a hidden compartment in his water bottle.
--TOM L. RULEZzZ!!!
