Lacrosse Weekend Update

Another weekend has come and gone with the U-19 Owen Sound Women's Lacrosse team. For those of you that do not know, I am helping to coach with Tristen and Jmac as they lead the Owen Sound girls in their quest for Gold at this years provincials. This week we travelled to Orangeville, a great lacrosse hotbed in Ontario. There were 3 fields going for the girls, plus there was a boy's box lacrosse tournament going on in the arena.
Things started early once again, as the carpool headed out of Owen Sound shortly after 6am for an 8:30 game. We were a little late in our warm up, but the girls pulled it together, and some great goaltending combined with some great balanced scoring led to a solid 12 - 5 win over Brampton.
Our next game was against Oakville, and once again we won by the same score, 12 - 5...and suddenly the Lady North Stars were a very respectable 6 wins against 1 loss. However, one game to go on this busy Saturday....and things were taking a bit of a downward turn. Jmac and I had to leave, leaving Tristen alone to coach, but worse than that, she also had a depleted squad. We lost 3 girls to commitments and 1 to injury, and suddenly we were in really tough. The girls fought hard, only to lose 9- 5 in the nightcap to St. Catherines.
I just want to say congratulations to the girls on another great weekend. We need to learn from our wins and our losses, and figure out what we did right, but more importantly, areas we can improve. Ask yourself if you gave it your best effort at all times, if the answer is yes, you can do no more...if you think you could have played harder or tougher, than remember that too.
Use every minute of every day to learn something new, and always strive to get better. Next game - Kawartha. Go North Stars - Go!!

Note - In between games the girls made the effort to go into the arena and cheer on the Owen Sound Midget boys playing Orangeville in the tournament. The girls were loud and supportive. - this message is for those Midget boys...if you guys get a chance, you should get out there and return the favour and cheer on the girls.

Here is a link to the passitonsports.ca gallery pages.

http://www.passitonsports.ca/apps/newgallery/index.php?level=collection&id=4



I have loaded up some pictures from the three weekends so far, Toronto, Brampton and Orangeville.
These girls are a blast.