JV re-cap from Bellarmine Tourney

Here is the re-cap from Coach to me after this weekend's tournament. Sounds like they did pretty darn well.

Good outing for the Fr./Soph. at Bellarmine. We played a Fr. squad from Valley Christian and won 17-2 with 12 players scoring and nine having assists. The competition could not mount any real offensive threat. The second game was supposed to have been against St. Ingatius but the Mountain View coach jumped our game and the St. Ingatius coach did not understand that we were supposed to play as the visitor. St. Ingatius beat Mountain View by a goal or two in a tight game. I believe we would have prevailed against St. Ingatius because of our depth of squad. They had two good offensive players but we could have focused on those and worked the counters with fresh subs. Their goalie was descent but not up to Ben Price's abilities. We played the next game with the Monte Vista Fr. Squad and used all our Fr. in the game, winning 17-5 with ten players scoring and five having recorded assists. Ben Price had six saves in the first period and Sam Sunde had four for the remainder of the game. Seven players recorded steals in that game along with seven players having T/O's---kinda normal for Fr. play. The last game was played back to back and pitted us against the always physical Mitty. It was at times a swim meet with ten T/O's and seven steals for our squad. It was mostly played by our stronger Sophomore group. Ben Price was outstanding in g oal and recorded eight saves and two steals in goal. He stopped a number of man up break away shots and had one fantastic block that required traversing the full goal for a GREAT block of a cross cage pass! Mike Airola did an awesome job of 2m defense and recorded three steals in the game and played the entire contest. What a difference a year makes on endurance. Ryan Marden generated most of the offense with three goals and a couple of bar in shots on Mitty's solid goalie. Austin tallied once on a nice counter break away lob shot. We lost the game 4-5 but Mitty now knows that we are not a pushover team and that we have a very good starting goalie. I would say that Ben Price "got in their heads" and made them hesitant to shoot because they did not want to turn over the ball; to their credit they controlled the ball better than we did.

Twenty players scored at least one goal for the tournament and fourteen had assists. We have played many games in the early season a nd have gained endurance and understanding but still need to improve our ball side driving and balance as well as reduce T/O's. Defensive weak side help is starting to appear but we still need tighter pressure w/o fouling.

Coach Ed