MVP

***WARNING*** This is another LACROSSE post, so those of you that might find it boring-o, please skip-o. ;-)

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So this weekend should have been filled with FOUR lax games. However, weather and TRAFFIC (grumble, grumble) narrowed our schedule down to one. Ah, well, such is life. It was nice not to have to split up the gang though and give focus to One, who by the way, was just named MVP. This is what his coach had to say:

I just wanted to pass along our Game MVP's for last Saturday's game, our first MVP and captain did an excellent job on defense and has been doing an excellent job on defense the last three games. At halftime he asked me if he could sit out for a while because he said something was hurting him, I looked at him and asked are you really hurt or if I put you in on offense with a short stick will that speed up your recovery and he smiled, so I then knew that the pain if any was not too serious. I then told him that if he really wanted I would sit him out for a bit but the way he was playing defense with scooping and clearing that he was doing a great job and that I needed him out there as he was my main guy on defense clearing the ball. I told him the pain that I thought he was feeling was more around the lung area and just being tired from all that running he had been doing and he again smiled and said okay coach I can play, he went out in the second half of the game and continued to have a great game and from what Coach Walker saw he took a pretty good hit at one point and got up and continued playing.

There was one play I'm not sure if you could hear it but Arlington had the ball on the ground and they were in front of our goal and trying to fight for the ball, then out of nowhere one of my defensive guy starts pushing hard at the Arlington player-- but the funniest was hearing that player say, "This is my house". Yes that was your son, screaming "Get out of here, this is my house" it was good to know that at least I had one boy taking pride in the defense. It was just before halftime, and he had the Arlington player looking at him funny and saying, "okay,okay".... So that was my laugh from that game.....

Way to go One! And of course, as any proud Momma would do, I have to post some pics from the game. Here's just some good ol' defense:

And here, One gets a hold of the ball and makes for a great fast break, takes the ball down field, makes a great pass that leads to a team goal.

A swing, and a miss......

"Run Foooorrrrrest, ruun...."

Ha. Scenes like this always remind me of The Gingerbread Man. "Run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man lacrosse playin' kid (.??..)"

A little pitiful, isn't it? In my world I relate almost every situation in life to a children's picture book.