How did your First game as Goalie go?

[Goalie37]

Mine went pretty bad basically out of 7 shots I only stopped 2... The only good thing was I could clear them.... but it was one of the worst experiences of my life...

-It's not like I suck I can make some pretty nasty saves, especially in practices or scrimmages... I guess I got nervous...

BTW: all i played was the 2nd half

[AttackMan17]

Er...Wow...6th grade I think for me. I think the score was 11-2 (we lost)



The only good thing was I could clear them....


Was that using one of my sexy pockets? :chuckle:

[Goalie37]

Er...Wow...6th grade I think for me. I think the score was 11-2 (we lost)





Was that using one of my sexy pockets? :chuckle:

yeah, ummm, I need you to string in die like 2 sticks btw :grin: I want to die one black and one possibly green. I really want a smooth deep pocket 18 diamond, like it should be a perfect bowl shape, is this possible? ill look for a pic of what im talking about later.

[AttackMan17]

yeah, ummm, I need you to string in die like 2 sticks btw :grin: I want to die one black and one possibly green. I really want a smooth deep pocket 18 diamond, like it should be a perfect bowl shape, is this possible? ill look for a pic of what im talking about later.

Alright...PM me. Or, even better IM me.

[ro.lax|rYaN]

well i played first half and out of like 7 shots i let four in, but my defense is amazing so i didn't have to worry to much. Although my first clear attempt ever was embarrassing, i went to throw, and the bell fell out and all the attack guys started to rush me...lol

[TitansGoalie11]

you only had seven shots on you? i think i had about 40 shots on me 3rd day ever picking up a goalie stick

[lilaxgurl23]

First game on JV in Wlax I had a shutout. I don't remember my frist Varsity game, I know it wasn't a shutout though (I've only had one on Varsity and that happened last year). I think my first game up on Varsity might have actually been against the local powerhouse when we lost 22-5. It was a grand ole time regardless of whether it was my first start or second :chuckle: Sad to say my defense never really improved. Everyone graduated that played defense last year, and we now have new coaches, so there is potential for a new, solid defense!

[gfkeeper28]

I don't remember. It was 5 years ago (in 8th grade) and I think we lost.

[lax21goalie2008]

shut out son. 9-0. sad thing is...I only had 2 saves. They were so terrible that we had the ball on our offensive side for basically the whole game.

[POCK3Ts]

19-4 it was terrible and it was only a 30 min game but it was against a top 4 team in missouri..i had an ok game but i was only a freshman playin varsity

[cnyminder]

OMG!thank god that we had a back up or we would have lost. I got pulled and the score was 15-7 bad.

[mullengoal141]

lets see, cross town rivals... check
so nervous you couldn't sleep well the night before... check
saving more than were scored on you... yes, but that doesnt matter because i was backup and went in the second half after they had already put up 11 on the board to our none and theier third or so string was in and they took low percentage easy save shots... but regardelss... i stil felt bad that we lost 19-1...

[RenagadeGoalie]

Shots-About 10
Goals Allowed-3

I only played one half and thought i sucked bcuz i let in 3 and refused to stay in so we put our best goalie in. trevor, our best goalie, let in 6 goals and we lost the game. everyone said that if i had stayed in we woulda one

[ncgoalie64]

my first game most of the team had never played before. (7th and 8th grade team) 18-1 we got crushed by a local jv team
Same season
It almost was almost as bad as a 24-0 lost against a travel team from chapel hill I still had about 15-20 saves in the gamehttp://www.lacrosseforums.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=1063230#
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[checklax]

Well I only played goalie once in my life because I wanted to get back into lax as soon as possible from an injury and we didnt have a goalie for indoor. I had like 12 goals scored on me and 4 saves. The 4 saves were all luck, kinda bad luck for me, one hit me in the shin, the other in the thigh, and the other contused my toe, the other hit me in the shoulder. Funny part is, it wasnt even box..

[ro.lax|rYaN]

you only had seven shots on you? i think i had about 40 shots on me 3rd day ever picking up a goalie stick

most of what i can remember, the balls didn't actually go on net. Don't get me wrong though in practice before the first game i was pelted with many balls.
Plus i played only one half. Do not trust me on my statistical memory its not very good, ill i can remember are the sights, most of it is a blur.

[joobs]

my first game was the game i was least scared because it was my first game of lacrosse and i didnt know what it felt like to get hit. luckily i didnt get hit but i played really well and i knew from then on that i wanted to be a goalie

[laxfirebird3435]

my first game, well scrimage, is in 2 weeks. And outdoor practice starts monday. I am so freakin nervous for that first game. Nervous and excited. Hope i save some.

[Guardian]

i played the firs half and made 5 save on 5 shots i was in 5th grade

[meestagoaliemon]

My first game, eh could have gone better.

I was in seventh grade, about three years ago, and this wasn't just myfirst game, this my team's first ever actual lacrosse game, so none of us were really prepared for what was about to happen. I let up 12 goals and had an estimated 25 total shots. my problem was that I was scared of the ball. Mostly because when I first volunteered to play goalie, I didn't really know what I was getting myself into, and it didn't help very much when all of the 8th graders fired shots at me when I had no idea what I was doing. So that contributed a little. All in all though, I was kind of pleased with how I did, even though I sucked.

[QuickFreeze]

well my team played in a tournament in wich we played a really good canadian team we lost 11-2

[TrapDoor]

Had it last weekend, we won 9-2 :thumbsup: . We dominated throughout it and the team we played was pretty bad. They had 6 shots, I saved 3, one just missed post. One of the goals was actually a crease violation, but I'm still good lol.

[EricL]

Won the first game, only let in 3 goals =D

[goalieskcickay]

shut out son. 9-0. sad thing is...I only had 2 saves. They were so terrible that we had the ball on our offensive side for basically the whole game.

Similar, our middies dominated the game. It was middleschool, and we were pretty decent, and the other team was terrible.
I think they scored once, and I think I may have picked up the ball like three times, never had to actually save the ball.

[laxplayanumba30]

first time i started in cage our team won 17-1

[EastCoastDeft]

i dont play goalie, but i played 1 game and let in 5---o yeah being a hockey goalie helps alot

[MGLAX]

My first game along with my entire team. We lost 11-0. The other teams goalie even scored on me. 36 shots. We didn't quite have the hang of lax yet.

[carmelgoal069]

hmm lets see im in 7th ive got like a 6-10 record id say mayb 8-11 but ive played one previous year as goalie but only like one game n that wus jus bad i let in a few

[ByrdDpole]

I played a half of defense, came off the field, changed ( I was down to my underwear on the sidelines) and jumped in goal with no warmup. I got shot on about 5 times in a quarter. blocked 2, one hit the behind. I got scored on twice, except one was luck. It hit the plastic on my stick, bounced, hit the pipe and went in.

[lax21goalie2008]

Similar, our middies dominated the game. It was middleschool, and we were pretty decent, and the other team was terrible.
I think they scored once, and I think I may have picked up the ball like three times, never had to actually save the ball.
Oh no, this was high school lacrosse (JV)

[sam.karcher]

I can't remember which was my first game but the first few games were fun. I accidentally broke a kids leg (with the help of a defenseman... we both hit the kid cause he was on the edge of the crease. Not a hard hit, but we both hit him and it was an awkward fall) in one game and I scored in the other. I was a middie before so, out of habit, I ran and in that particular game I ran it up to half field and lobbed it and the goalie wasn't paying attention and I scored. It was 6th grade I believe, maybe 7th.

[EHSLAX12]

i remember perfectly. 7th grade after i had just given up attack. it was an interesting game. i had just bought my first nemesis with factory mesh so there was no pocket bit i could throw very well with it. i remember the score of 7-6 which we won because i somehow stopped a 1 on 1 attempt at the 5 hole as my last save in the last few minutes of the 4th quarter. i remember so well because i tried to cradle behind the net and couldnt dodge away from this attackman that was on me. so my coach called a timeout just as i got away from him and he was yellin at me because i wasted a timeout. then a minute later i made that save and he let that go. he said that i cancelled it out and i have his respect again.

[laxgoalieguy123]

i remember my first game perfectly. out f 4-5 shots on me (i was soooooo lucky, they never got it down here) i blocked all but 2. i was lucky

[laxgoalieking]

my first box game 2-2 tie. we only tied because the league gave me a stick a whole near the bottom near the throat of the mesh and the ball roled down and into my stick and out the back and into trhe net.

[bubba]

I moved out of the way of every shot....... i had way more respect for goalies after that...

[GrymesGoalie]

We played a semi-local military school. Man, were those kids big. The only real thread was this one guy they'd run around crease and nobody could stop him.

We lost 15-7, but I had twenty-something saves on the day and like 13 of the goals were crease shots.

[claxbucky]

In my first game playing goalie, I had to play face-off mid for the first half (my usual position back then) then at half time, change into my goalie equipment and play between the pipes. I somehow managed a shut-out with 4 saves in the 2nd half, but it was only JV so the shots weren't insane.

[maxlax621]

we won 7-4. it was in jv my freshman year, I only played the 2nd half and let in 2 goals.

[MDlaxin69]

well my first game as goalie (varsity) was a couple days ago... i only played the 4th quarter... but i didnt allow any goals, and i had 4 saves

[cnspittslax]

my first game was pretty bad. we played 5 quarters, but i only played in 1, i got shot on once (because i had an amazing defense) but it went in. it was pretty emberissing :thumbsdow, but im a lot better now :thumbsup:

[UCANCALLMEGOD]

first game (club) - 4 saves - 12 goals
first game (JV) - 17 saves - 6 goals
first game (Varsity - Year Later) - 22 saves - 7 goals
annnnnnd now i play defense :chuckle:

[TheCoolGoalie1]

My first game was against a local team we won 14-2 i though i played great but they just sucked lol

[Laxgoalie4282]

my first game was last fall, and we lost 5-3, but the other team had around 20 shots on me. that was the best team in the league, and we were the second worst team in the league.

[westlakelax17]

My first game was in 7th grade during the indoor league and i did alright, but the score was tied up and in the last 15 seconds of the game i looked behind me at the scoreboard and a kid shot from mid-field and scored and won the game. :wow: :wow:

[manup5183]

It went pretty dam good. I went in second half and my team was man-down. Through the duration of the last half I had 8 shots on me. 5 missed goal. 1 right at my stick. 2 decent saves. The nemi I was using had pretty bad rebound though. My team won 11-0.

[BOMBERd-pole]

my first game was in indoor 16 weeks ago i played the 2nd half, 25 minutes running time i let in four and saved 5 not bad 55% and we won 22-7

[peewee_52]

well when i playted house league everyone on the team had to take a chance(we didint have a goalie) and when i played..the score was....21-6
but then again i was scared $&itless and i only weighed 75 pounds at the time..and i was 4'8

[kpkid190]

I do not know how, but on my first game ever in net I made 9 saves and we won 11-2..

LUCK

[GoBucks]

My first game was more of a scrimmage. It was during the preseason and we lost 7-4. I let in 4 goals on 7 shots, which isn't too bad. Our clearing game was good, but once we got the ball on offense it started to unravel. Guys weren't moving, there were so many dropped passes, that kinda stuff. We were on defense for most of the scrimmage.

[smashingpumpkin]

My first game went really well. I played for the first half then went back in for the last half of the fourth quarter. I saved 13/13 shots.

[datLAXnukka#38]

mine was 10- 13 shots taken allowed 4....we lost 4-2 my offense just couldnt score

[pinecrestlax]

My first highschool game in goal was for JV, shut them out for 3 whole quarters in all and they scored twice on me, final score was 13-2.

[SawyerLaxGirl44]

Well... I decided to go with my first college game, which happened to be just 7 hours ago...


I got killed, creamed, SLAUGHTERED!! 21-0. Worst I have ever done in my career as a goalie...

[bmxinspired]

thats only because i came out of the first half 14 to 3 and i scored as a mid later in the game

[ashurnibitashpi]

3-15.

i stopped playing goalie after that game..

[rynolax]

it was indoor field lax, so I played 25 minutes and had like 10 saves. I only let in 2. That was the 1st time I ever picked up a goalie stick.

[Chicken Little]

This last Wednesday, had never been in game situation only practiced and warmed up every day for practice but no real shots. In the game I played the second half and it was so cold I couldn't feel the ball in my stick or the stick in my hands even. It was about 40 degrees and rainy and nasty. I had to stay out beforehand and watch the Varsity play, so I was freezing. About 9 shots I think that were on net. 4 were goals, one of the post, one of the foot, one of the shin one of the elbow and in the final seconds one off the top of my head and over- I couldnt get the stick up in time. A couple missed the net and I came out for one hit in front of the crease. This was our first game as a team, and many people's first ever, so we got crushed and I felt like I did a pretty awful job as I didn't get the actual head of the stick on any ball except for endline clears. One shot hit off the shaft of it though... :whyme:

[smalbikpro]

it went a little like this. the coach was giving me a ride to the game with his son and another team mate. and coach said, "okay guys im not going to beat around the bush, craig sucks at goalie. who wants to give it a try?" i said i'll do it, and i didnt do half bad. we won 6-2. the 2 that went in were bouncers, and it was my first time ever being goalie so there wasnt much i could do about it. all in all it was a good experience

[New Lax Love84]

Well, the part I played in was good. Our senior goalie had food poisoning. So she was dunzo. And the 10th grade goalie saved 1 let in 4. So a minute after half time, my coach called a time out and put me in goal. Shut out by me =]
Haha, it was lucky. But it felt awesome.

[laxgthreeone]

MY first game 5th grade we needed a goalie volunteered made like 9 or 11 saves woon 15-1 it was our teams 2nd game so are D wasnt ggreat but became awesome most saves were body saves

[wolfenburg]

we won 11:1.
I made like 3 safes in the game. We wehre very suprised that the other team was so bad because in the first game we played them we won luckyly 11:10.
The worst thig was that the guy who scored on me later pushed me and i was faling on my knee. We played on Turf and so it burned.

[okemosLAX]

we won 2-0, WOOOO

[aisixers376]

my first game was maybe 4th or 5th grade let in one goal it was against a pretty awful team though we routed them like 12-1

[mattg_725]

SHUTOUT! 8-0 i was like 7...
BOX LACROSSE!

[SheiK]

Well, today I had my first game as a goalie for my team (this is my first year playing Lax.)

I ended up having a shutout, saving 31 out of 31 shots. It was pretty cool, actually. Also very fun! Everyone was like: "Here's our new goalie!"

lol but yeah I had an excellent first experience as a goalie today.

Btw score was 7-0.

[laxgoalie89]

mine went pretty good, it was a playday thing with several teams competing in only 25min games (half a game). We won 6-2

[JazzyJake]

amazing, i played the whole game and saw one shot, it went straight to my stick
LONG LIVE AMHERST DEFENSE lol

[JGLAX91]

first game against whitman for me = about 35 shots and 14 goals.... yeah.... i did have 18 saves though. most were body blocks and i had one good 5-hole save.

[OtisBrown]

I just started playing goalie like 3 days ago, because our varsity goalie quit in the middle of the season. I actually beat the back-up goalie for the varsity spot, because I have some experience playing hockey goalie, so that helped a little on angles. But I had my first varsity game yesterday. We lost 11-9. I had 22 saves.

[BCGoalie56]

my first game I played because a lot of our starters were in band...and they had a big performance and missed the game...our starting goalie was in band so I stepped up to the plate to play...it was my first year ever playing goalie...and the first time other than practice that i was in goal. Long story short...we lost 8-7, missing half our starters...but it was crushing...since i was new i couldn't help but blame myself...like it was all my fault we lost the game even though about 6 of the 8 goals were 1 on 1 goals...so i got down on myself quick...but thats my story....not so short after all. my b.

[Dadabhoy_Muzzi]

I had my first 3 games today. We were blown out in our first game (11-0) The team we played, were much much better then us and already had 10 games done up till today. I played pretty garbage in the first half but then I heated up in the last half.

[fatmanlax]

My first and only game was versus a 5 and 6th grade team (I was 8th and I usually play attack) I had 10 saves and the score was 10-1 but my defense was terrible. But the good part was I hit the little kid right he caught the ball and he started to cry.

[Lacrossebum03]

My first was against a terrible team; 1 GA, 8 saves (JV) Shut out first 3 1/2 quarters. 14-1 final.

[taco5]

my first game in goal i was a 6 grader and i played a 8 grade team. i had 14 saves on 20 shots on goal. one of my best friends was goalie for the other team and it was so cool because we got to shake hands when the goalie's meet. it was awsome.

[laxgthreeone]

Yea that was pretty cool taco

[g04L13 iNSANiTY]

we lost 3-9, but I had at least 30 shots so I can't say i was horrible, just not the best

[SSHSGoalie33]

my first game we won7-3 and i made a good amount of saves
next game i had a shutout 8-0

my coach said i had a natural talent and came to me as a gift
my carrer record is 5-1

[broslax]

well i played the 2nd half.and faced 1 shot and saved 1 shot.so its cool haha.but nxt game i started and got 9 saves and got scored on 1 time.

[goalie4JESUS]

in 6th grade i found out i was goalie like a week before the game and i only got to have 15 minutes in practice before playing a prep school team......lets just say it was bad i made like 3 save but the next year went much better

[JEeagleslax]

my first game as a goalie was 8th grade...even tho i had been playing since 5th and my 6th grade coach BEGGED my parents to let me play... umm i dont remember much of it. i know i made like 2 really good saves and i think i saved like 5 more. we won that game but only by a point. i learned one thing that day...if a girl EVER goes in your crease u may wanna back up a lil. i have a cleat scar on my leg to prove it

[moondog]

I was really freaked out at first--I made 15 saves and we won 7-3 against Western Michigan. My coach gave me the game ball, and I grew a whole head full of confidence after that...

[Vermont Laxer]

Mine has alittle story behind it, in 8th grade leagues here you play 3 games every saturday no one wnated to play goalie so we chose this one kid to play and he was scared to death but he would blame everyone else for the goals so after about 2 weekends i was sick of it so i step in and really just didnt care about getting hit after i got hit a couple times in warm ups so first game ended up winning 7-3

[Lacrosse4life31]

well im the only goalie so.. i played all game

we won 6-1, the team we were playing was garbage.
i took two shots to the arm (for my first game.. those... HURT!)
i took one shot to the ankle at the end, which hurt
i took two shots to the thigh and had big bruises there for along time
and thats about it... the goal they got in on me was the guy was right on top of the crease, he was standing on the line (aren't refs supposed to call that?) and scored. We have an outstanding defense, and attack. the only problem with our team is that our middy's are weak! they are slow and most of the first year players play middy. But the second time we faced that team we beat them again 7-4 so i think that team just had bad coaching because their football team is top-notch.
o well, it was one of the best expeirences, only thing better then that is when we faced our rivals twice and beat them both times.

[laxlosergirl]

my first game was the best i ever played. i saved every shot except two. we lost though cuz of our other goalie who didn't block five. (7-1) i didn't play that well after that

[WinnersLacrosse]

my first game i think i saved like 14-20 but we still lost by one

[laxlosergirl]

i stopped all shots but two....we lost but it was the other goalie....i played second half