Sunday Sept 18

Early start today (7:30) due to some interference from the high school team. It's cold, like 50 but sunny, dew is covering the turf. We started full court 7 v 9, Steve in the blue net, nobody in for white. Keith is blue today, so is Keebs. Jordan showed up for the first time in a while, but had to leave early due to a malfunction of his knee. Jeff got his official shirts so he's no longer listed as a guest. Guests were Dennis and the guy from last week, I still didn't get his name. I think we got up to full sides, Keith left early to go to a motorcycle ride.

Scoring:

Mario for white 1-0

Carlos for blue 1-1 then Carlos went white when Jordan left

Vince to Jeff for white 2-1

Keebs on an open net for blue 2-2

Vince 3-2

Joe Bagels for blue 3-3

Jeff 4-3

Jeff 5-3

Vince to Jeff 6-3

Joe again 6-4

Jeff again 7-4

Then Dennis tripped and fell onto the track and hurt himself, game over. Blue did nominally better than last week according to the score, but it sure didn't feel that way on the field. And white had no keeper.

Sunday Sept 11

Ten year anniversary. Nice seventy degree partly cloudy day, we started with 9 v 9, Doug & Steve in the nets, one guest, didn't catch his name. Two moments of silence in recognition of the 9-11 tragedies and also for Rocco's mom. We got up to full sides.

Scoring:

Jay for blue 1-0 off a steal by Jeff

Vince for white 1-1 after a bad goal kick rebounded by Keebs

Rocco for blue 2-1 nice pass from guest

Dave for white 2-2

Joe to Mario to Keebs for white 2-3

Mario for white 2-4

Vince to Joe 2-5

Dimos to Jeff for blue 3-5

Keebs to Joe 3-6

Joe to Dan 3-7

Vince 3-8

at this point Bobby left the game and Dan came over to the blue side

Vince 3-9

Mario to Kee 3-10

Jay to Jeff with a nice header 4-10

Dave, unassisted 4-11

Joe to Mario with a flying tap in 4-12

Keebs and Mario shared goal 4-13

Vince to Dave 4-14

Pretty lopsided score, I blame the white defense played by Keith and Jimmy.

Player of the Week

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Meet Wally the Waldwick Wedtail Hawk, enjoying his breakfast last Monday in the school parking lot. Wally says "SKREEEEE" (click on photo)

Monday Sept 5 Labor Day

Still hot and muggy, we started with short sides, maybe 9 v 10. Jelly invited three of his league team members, Dan invited a buddy and Dennis showed up. 8 from yesterday: me, Keebs, Jay, Mario, Teddy, Jeff, Bobby, Rocculous & Joe M. No designated keepers, field players subbed in. Joe M brought his A game for the second day in a row. We got up to 11 v 11 at the most I think, then the ranks started to thin. Dan's buddy suffered an Achilles failure and left. Mike the Wizard had to leave due to whisky poisoning, according to Keebs. Others left due to the arduous conditions, and we finished up with an 8 v 7 open field full court grudge match. Tough going for us old guys. Oh, white dominated the scoring, maybe 6 - 3, but my pad was at home. Keebs scored two, that's really all that matters. Still fun. See you Sunday?

Rocc says pay now or die.

Sunday Sept 4 Labor Day Week End

So. Last week we all got blowed by Irene. There was talk of playing Saturday, I

don't know what happened. Today was kind of muggy & overcast, 70 degrees or so, but hot. 10 v 10 to start, Doug in the white net, Steve in for blue. Shamu tweaked a fin early in the match but Tim showed up late & filled in. Jeff & Joe as guests, but I hope they have paid up and are now members.

Scoring starts with Ted (nobody passes to me) for white 1-0

Then Rocc, for his mamma, 1-1

Fernando takes a pass at mid field and carries it all the way in 2-1

Keebs wearing blue today 2-2

Joe bagels in Blue 3-2

Vince for white 3-3

Mark Schwartz with a tapper over Steve's head 4-3

Rosner with a boomer from the penalty kick line, for white 5-3, may have left a mark on the back of the net.

Vincent again 6-3

Jeff for blue 6-4

Tough match with the heat and short sides, but maybe tomorrow? Bring the kiddies.

Sunday August 21

Due to the rain the four players who showed up last Sunday decided to abandon the effort. Wednesday evening about half a dozen folks did show up to kick the ball around, but that's it. Maybe this week.

Today its cool at game time, but the August sun quickly heats up the turf. Guests include regulars Jeff, Will, and Joe, and from two weeks ago, Sergio, Fernando and Dennis. Steve in the blue goal and our old friend Doug in the white. Keith and Bobby both in white today, Eddy showed up to play for white and when Tim finally arrived we probably had 12 v 12.

Scoring:

Joe for blue 1-0

and that's where it stood for most of a pretty spirited match. Then Kennington & Jordan left, Will went in for Steve, Keith and then Keebs in for Doug.

Shamoo for blue 2-0

Fernando for blue 3-0

Moo again 4-0

Joe Bagels for white 4-1

Dan for blue 5-1

Dan again 6-1

Frank for white 6-2 to end it.

Sunday August 7

Rainy warm morning. We started with 6 v 6 playing across on the red field. We soon had enough to move to a shortened big field, then finally full court 11 v 12. We had nine guest players: the usuals Will, George, Jeff and Jake, our old buddy from Ramsey, Will Lara, Dennis, who's played with us once or twice before, and a bunch of new kids, Aldo, Sergio and Fernando. The game was surprisingly hot and sweaty, the sun even came out. Steve in the blue net had a great game today. The white goalkeepers were George, Snarky Mark and a new kid. The score was Blue 9 White 6. Keith has been switching alliances on a weekly basis and claims his teams have won the last seven games straight.

I didn't think there would be enough players for an official game, so I didn't bring my score book, so no scoring summary today. Keeble wasn't there anyway so it doesn't matter. Next week I will be away, Keebs, Kieth, can you fill in?

And by the way, last week's discussion of a charity event has been cancelled for the time being.

Sunday July 31

Nice hot sunny summer Sunday. Four guests, regulars George, Jeff, Will, and a new guy, Jed. Steve is back in the net for blue, George for white, later Keith, then Enzo. Tim came late, Jay & Mike left early, at the peak we had about 26 guys.

Scoring:

Will for white with a floater over the scrum in front of the goal into the corner 1-0

Joe Bagels for white 2-0

Shamu for white 3-0 off a Joe corner kick bobbled on the goal line, really an own goal

Rosner for blue 3-1

Shamu again on a cross from Joe again 4-1

Keeble? for white. Another beautiful cross from Joe, that might have already been in the net. Keebs did hit it with his head 5-1

Dimos for blue (of course) 5-2

Mario for white (of course) 6-2

Shamu again on a corner by Joe again 7-2

Rosner again 7-3

Dan for blue 8-4 to end it.

Everybody is really dragging by 9:30.