Lacrosse Marathon

Our girl's lacrosse team had a game against Salem yesterday. It turned out to be a three hour lacrosse marathon. Because we have a lot of girls on our team and wanted to give them all a chance to play, we basically ended up playing three games back to back.

The first featured our first team of experienced players against Salem's team. We won that one by about 5 goals or so. Our first team pretty much all have a year or more of experience under their belts and everyone can throw, catch and scoop. They played very well on both sides of the ball and our goalie made some nice stops.

The second game was an intrasquad game where we mixed our team up and played them on a full field with an umpire (who did a fantastic job calling all of the games, by the way). I was impressed with the play of a lot of our younger and inexperienced players and they seemed to have a lot of fun. Salem helped us out in this by letting their goalie play for one of our sides where she did a nice job. I didn't keep a tally of this match, but does it really matter who won?

Lastly, we played a mixed team against Salem. They won that one by a couple of goals. They have a couple of players who were basically unstoppable except by our best defenders. Our goalie had to leave before this one and we had a girl volunteer to put on the pads and step in there (which is a brave thing to do). It was great to give everyone a chance to play in this one and I think some of the players actually improved over the course of the game.

It was a long day and we all got a little bit sunburned (#1 son is a pale blondie and has a nice red neck today), but it was loads of fun. A lot of parents thank me for coaching and I appreciate their thanks, but I have a great time doing it. I'm glad to have such a fun group of coaches, parents and players because it makes the time commitment absolutely worthwhile.