Sunday at All Star LAX- Whitney Luckett [ 7/16/2007 - 11:09 ] #
Sorry this didn't get out last night - it was a
long, long day. On the chance that your
daughter is JUST as communicative as mine – we’ll share our adventures of the
day with you anyway. One of our
chaperones arrived here bewildered at the amount of work required by the older
girls. Who knew that you couldn’t stay
at a bed & breakfast and then just swoop in and out for games?! (For the record – said chaperone was seen
many times schlepping a HUGE green military bag full of supplies across acres
of hot dusty fields.)
Our first
game of the day was vs. Caterham from London. In many respects is was a great game. The girls all played well and we dominated
the game. Clare, Steph, Shelby D,
Logan, Megan, Kelsi & Paige ALL put balls in the net. We finished the game saluting the team in the
traditional British manner. The girls
had a great time – but who wouldn’t after winning your first game 9 to 3? An optimistic start to the day...
We had
another hour before returning to the same hot dusty field for a game against
the Capitol 10 team from MD. Boy… it was
only 11 AM and the heat was pretty bad.
One friend of the team who’s a lax playing sophomore at Duke had a
sister on the Capitol team. The girls
didn’t have a lot of shots on goal, but what we did shoot, went in. Megan, Vivi & Kameryn all came away with
goals. Maxine successfully faced down 3
free position shots on goal. The girls
came away with an impressive 3 to 2 win over a MD team! Subway
sandwiches were delivered – 9’ of them - and the girls rested in the shade for
their longest break of the day before we faced a very strong PA team. The temperatures were climbing and it was so
dry on the field that I had flashbacks to the rodeo as I watched the girls go
down for the ball. Our defense against
this team was terrific. The PA team must
have aimed for our goal over 20+ times, but only came away with 3 goals. Logan & Megan both put balls in the
net. Sam said that we need to put more
shots on goal. But this was a great game
against a very strong East Coast team.
We came way with a 2 to 3 loss.
All the girls play really well.
It just
kept getting hotter & hotter. Thank
goodness for mid-game water breaks and the wall of liquids that the pit crew
purchased! The girls heard Sam’s plea
for more shots on goal and offered up almost triple the amount of shots on goal
against the M&D team from the DC metro area. Unfortunately they had one heck of a goalie
and were shooting just as well themselves.
Shelby, Helen & Kameryn scored in this game and we came away with a
very respectable 5 to 6 loss.
We were
getting down to the crunch time – Connie had to leave us and Sam, Alexa &
Caroline were literally running between the ’09 & ’10 games for the
remainder of the day. Our penultimate
game was against Shore Velocity, a team against which we suffered a humiliating
defeat at Lax by the Sea. One must
qualify that we had more subs than they did, but the girls were more than happy
to return the favor from Jersey and defeat
Shore 7 to 3. Steph, Logan, Vivi, Kelsi,
Paige, and Clare all had the pleasure of scoring.
It was
5:30 and boy was it hot… The girls actually played around on the playground –
and we do have happy snaps to pass on.
The enthusiasm for running around for one more game of lax was waning
fairly seriously. In fact, our
opponents, Lady Roc from Rochester,
NY, felt similarly inclined. . Kameryn and Logan both scored, leading us to
a 3 to 2 victory.
We stopped off at a Sandy Point State Park just over the bridge back to Anapolis where the girls took a swim in the Chesapeake Bay. Almost all the girls jumped in and had a great time. It was truly a joy to see them swimming out there framed by the majestic Bay Bridge.
Team 180
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