4 goal win crickets
If they lost, spew city
In between those three is Jim Matteson. A convicted murderer who killed himself in prison.
The “Mummy Murderer”.
4 goal win crickets
If they lost, spew city
Great win, plus I love reading the Hopkins threads when they lose.
I really thought this was going to be a repeat of last year after they went down 5-1. Silly mistakes that kept giving the ball to Hopkins. Porter looked like he couldn't stop a beach ball, defense out of sorts, offense falling back into bad shot selection. I think it was shortly after that fifth goal that Desko took a timeout and things seemed to kick into gear.
I like the decision to put Kennedy and Fernandez on the wings, though it feels like Varello and Phaup need to communicate more with them before popping the ball out. Probably not something to do every game but they needed ground balls from the scrums today and the two of them did great.
Ball movement was much faster and more movement on offense in the second half lead to some nice openings. Darby stole a couple, and some bad choices to go low when he already had his stick down there. And who doesn't love transition goals, Dearth with 2 and Kennedy with 1. Now comes the hard part though, Buttermore has been playing lights out and should probably be on the first line. Do you keep the swap permanent or leave him on the second to keep the lines "balanced". Box score says Seebold played but I don't remember seeing him, no Quinn though. Looks like Fiorini got a run as well.
Defense really clamped down after that first quarter. Porter put that first half behind him and made some great saves. I don't pay as much attention to match ups, but I'm assuming they switched some guys around to strangle the Hopkins offense. I'm still chuckling over Mellen bending his pole fighting through that pick. Losing Murphy hurts though, gotta hope the young guys are ready to step up.
Slow starts still an issue but they need to build on the strong finish they had today. Colgate was winnable in the fourth, Army made it close in the fourth, and last week it was lost in the fourth. Today they kept it going and made sure Hopkins wasn't going to come back.
Great win, plus I love reading the Hopkins threads when they lose.
I really thought this was going to be a repeat of last year after they went down 5-1. Silly mistakes that kept giving the ball to Hopkins. Porter looked like he couldn't stop a beach ball, defense out of sorts, offense falling back into bad shot selection. I think it was shortly after that fifth goal that Desko took a timeout and things seemed to kick into gear.
I like the decision to put Kennedy and Fernandez on the wings, though it feels like Varello and Phaup need to communicate more with them before popping the ball out. Probably not something to do every game but they needed ground balls from the scrums today and the two of them did great.
Ball movement was much faster and more movement on offense in the second half lead to some nice openings. Darby stole a couple, and some bad choices to go low when he already had his stick down there. And who doesn't love transition goals, Dearth with 2 and Kennedy with 1. Now comes the hard part though, Buttermore has been playing lights out and should probably be on the first line. Do you keep the swap permanent or leave him on the second to keep the lines "balanced". Box score says Seebold played but I don't remember seeing him, no Quinn though. Looks like Fiorini got a run as well.
Defense really clamped down after that first quarter. Porter put that first half behind him and made some great saves. I don't pay as much attention to match ups, but I'm assuming they switched some guys around to strangle the Hopkins offense. I'm still chuckling over Mellen bending his pole fighting through that pick. Losing Murphy hurts though, gotta hope the young guys are ready to step up.
Slow starts still an issue but they need to build on the strong finish they had today. Colgate was winnable in the fourth, Army made it close in the fourth, and last week it was lost in the fourth. Today they kept it going and made sure Hopkins wasn't going to come back.
Believe he means Peter.I thought Jack Fiorini's arm was still in a cast?
Believe he means Peter.
He had quite a reputation even in high school.He was a sad story. Darn drugs
Yep. My era. My sport. Wrestling was huge locally in the early - mid 80s Big matches were televised locally. Bville - Fulton was a huuuuuuuuge rivalry.Your post reminded me that, with Rogers, Matteson and Green at consecutive weights, they were called Section 3’s “murderers row. “ At least Rogers and Green went on to bigger and better things!
They did Fulton-Bville in the Syracuse War Memorial.Yep. My era. My sport. Wrestling was huge locally in the early - mid 80s Big matches were televised locally. Bville - Fulton was a huuuuuuuuge rivalry.
Maybe now we can compare Dearth to Matt Abbott. last time I suggested this, posters scoffed. He may not be as fast, but he clears like him, is better defensively and scores as much. Go ahead and laugh.Just saw the replay. Peter Dearth is the absolute man! 2 goals, 1 assist, played a ton with Murphy out, not once was he beaten badly in a 1v1 situation, even when he had Epstein and Williams switched onto him.
Incredible performance by the d. Mellen shut down Epstein like it was nothing. Perfectly read his spin moves and was all over him once he was over gle. Seamed to scare him into passing it off to other guys instead of dodging. The only shots he got off were a couple extremely low percentage 1 handers. The dude is clearly dangerous though. That one handed shot he had on Cunningham was bonkers.
Cunningham and then later bomberry and Kennedy did a great job on Williams, who did not really impress me. The only other scary dodger was concannon who got a couple. But we handled him down the stretch. Desimone, Forrey smith, and Kyle Marr all looked weak on the dodge despite being great shooters. We should be thankful we have like 5 legitimately dangerous dodging middies. I like this team! Safe enough now to call the Colgate game a fluke?
Rehfuss took on Foley and Rapine two very good defensemen, took them away from play and worked his butt off. I would not write him off yet . Fernandez and Kennedy are a kick.A couple of thoughts after I got to go back and watch today:
Thought Varello made the most of his oppotunities, glad to see he can come in and win some, team is going to need it down the road.
Even after a slow start Porter came on in the 2nd half. I like this kid he seems to make a few clutch saves every game.
Even though Hopkins missed some opportunities, thought team defense was overall good again. The difference in the SSDM defense this season has been fantastic. Hope Murphy's injury isn't serious of course.
Offense was pretty ugly in the 3rd. Still hope they're going to get more out of Rehfuss, just don't think anyone on attack scares most defenses.
Not sure where Hopkins is going to end up when it's all said and doen but it's always nice to beat them, particularly after last seasons beat down.