Lake Placid - It's all over.

Lacrosse can be a funny game. Up and down emotionally, physically, and the game can change one minute, and one game to the next.

We had high expectations for this tournament. We wanted to win....why not? - That is what we go for. There are 16 teams. If you are in the bottom half of the rankings, you have to play the top half (the best teams) early and it makes it really tough. Last year we lost our first game to one of the best teams by one goal. That loss guaranteed us a 9th place finish at best if we won our final 3 games which we did. So we went 3 and 1 and finished 9th.

This year if we did not win, we wanted at least to be seated in the top 8 going into the 2013 tourney. We won our first game this year, and that helped big time. Our next game we got beat badly, but since we won our 3rd game we were guaranteed top 8.

Yesterday we were humbled again. We scored 4 or 5....the Cloudsplitters scored a lot more than that.

I am not sure of the final, it has not been posted yet....but it was not close. I can make excuses but....no wait, I am going to make excuses. We were hurt and short of guys. Our leader Warren had a bad foot, one of our star Long Poles had to go home....Tippy, another star Stu Aird, was hurt very early and out. That left us with only 2 regular long poles, Bob Simpson and Jason Donville, who both did a phenomenal job, played the whole game. We had other guys that helped fill in, but we were short guys on the midfield and attack, a lot of whacks and bruises and a huge welt on Dave Johnston's chest/stomach (still debating that one).

We got behind early....and it was not until mid way through the game that Brad Wales scored a beautiful goal that made the score at that time about 6 - 1. We really never got much closer than that.


Good news......we are ranked 6th place out of 16 teams, so next year we will have a much better early draw. So as sports go, last year 3 and 1 (9th place) this year 2 wins and 2 losses (6th place). Go figure.

I would at this time like to thank our pal Warren Dimarco for organizing this for us. It was a success and a lot of fun.

                                                         Warren D warming up.

Great tournament by Goaltender Ted Sawicki - Long Pole Stu Aird is actually amazing to watch play lacrosse. Special mention to Brad Sanderson for being the all round Brad Sanderson guy that he is.

A great weekend for sure.