Great Lakes Tourney in Kalamazoo, MI

[HcLax52]

To anyone that is going to the Great Lakes Tourney please put your grade and the team your going with, i am with the fresh/soph Western Springs team.

[Eclipse]

i already started this forum...whatever, junior with the madison all stars i think we play you guys first game

[laxoholic]

i'm frosh/soph with WS too.

[HcLax52]

i already started this forum...whatever, junior with the madison all stars i think we play you guys first game

haha sounds fun...what kinda grades are the guys on your team?
we have all fresh/soph.. hence the name haha

[Eclipse]

ha were all juniors and seniors....so we have some graduated kids....were an all star team but i hope were not the only one.

[HcLax52]

ha were all juniors and seniors....so we have some graduated kids....were an all star team but i hope were not the only one.

oo sounds fun...if u play d look for number 13.. thats me or number 11 that laxaholic.. we both play attack

[Eclipse]

nope i play attack

[lyonslax98]

you guys could probably still see each other if you try hard.

[HcLax52]

ook.. well ill still look for you, do u start? and whats ur number

[Eclipse]

i start, my number on this team will be number 2

[HcLax52]

haha ok il cya there

[Eclipse]

my team will be called "MALA Select"

[fenwicklax89]

im 26 on ws jv. all black cpx with chrome mask - only one on the team with one

[Eclipse]

what teams are most of ur guys from...im confused that varisty is only 2 diff teams (lyons and hinsdale) but ur jv has kids from lyons hinsdale whatever ur team is fenwick, even a dpole from st ignatius...

[LT LaxMan]

fenwick and st. ignatius are both private schools. the kids who play on them live in Western Springs or Hisdale

[Eclipse]

alright boys, were leaving in like an hour, cya all there and good luck

[Eclipse]

good games to all...we beat western springs jv 11-0 then waverly 12-2...we came out super flat in the semis and were down 4-1 in the first (it was like 8 AM) and ended up losing in OT 6-5. Good stuff aside from the last game being some really bad reffing, the officials preceding to tell our players to shut the **** up (and yes they did drop F bombs) two times...it sucked. Congrats to whoever won though,

[fenwicklax89]

i dont even want to comment on the way our team played. no one could pass or catch and we were just too worn from lack of a bench and extreme fatigue. it was a learning experience to say the least....

[Eclipse]

it was also extremely hot ha

[fenwicklax89]

^^indeed it was. i was feelin dizzy so i got moved to attack for the last 15 mins so i could rest and let a fresh attackmen run a few lines as a mid.

[Eclipse]

u werent to eager to talk to me when i walked by you fenwick hah

[fenwicklax89]

sorry it took me a sec to realize who it was. and anyways our coach is pretty strict about pre-game warmups and stuff. we havehad to run sprints before a game due to screwin off durin warmups

[HcLax52]

wooo... fresh/soph made it to championship for western springs but we lost to okemos and i got dehydrated the 2nd game... guess i didnt drink enough and it sucked i played like 1 1/2 games
and r game got delayed like 2 hours cause rain and the game before us went into 4 ****ing overtimes...it was gay

[groundball88]

http://playshots.com/images3.php?cid=759
Its pretty sweet, they have game shots from every game

[Eclipse]

nice......

[laxoholic]

where were all those college coatches?

[Eclipse]

i wrote a letter to that tourney saying they were full of **** and lied about there tournament and there refs sucked

[fenwicklax89]

^^^ nicely done. i found it was a bit of a letdown. and those refs liked men.

[LALax5]

What is with you Wisconsin teams playing Graduated Seniors? Have you ever played in any tournament outside of the Midwest? I would assume not because any time you want to play out east they do not play graduated seniors. That is pretty shady that you play kids who graduate either way i heard WS rolled over that tournament in brewtown. How did it feel to lose to a bunch of kids who are still in high school?

[Butters14]

Well, first of all, western springs didnt roll over anything. We lost a close game 10-8. On top of that we lost with maybe half of our varsity teams, we needed graduated seniors to field a team. If you'd look outside your ******* self you'd realize that some of us want to continue playing. In that game, our third line of middies, were first year jv kids who didnt even start on jv. Our starting goalie was gone, we had one starting attack, and no starting middies. Although congratulations on the two goal win over a partial jv team, I hope it makes you sleep better. BTW That tournament had graduated seniors on every team with the exception of ur western springs team, and that orland park team.

[fenwicklax89]

ya and the western springs team had only been practicing for 4 days before brewtown. there was very little teamwork and a lot of selfishness on the field. i would bet money that western springs would take ur varsity team in a few weeks

[DwinsChamps]

ya and the western springs team had only been practicing for 4 days before brewtown. there was very little teamwork and a lot of selfishness on the field. i would bet money that western springs would take ur varsity team in a few weeks


Idk about that one...our varsity team would beat the living daylights out of the team we fielded at Brewtown. I'm not saying we'd win for sure, bc there was alot of talent on the WS senior team, but we would definitely hold our own. Do keep in mind, the team that you saw up there had 1st year players starting at attack and midfield, and by no means did we have a faceoff guy.