Sunday Oct 9

Sunny and cool at game time, forecast is for 80 degrees. The turf is wet with dew. We started with short sides and the goals moved up to the 18 yard lines, last man back. 7 white vs 8 blue no guests.

Jeff for white 1-0

Jay for blue 1-1

Eddy for blue 1-2

Vince with a steal and a score for blue 1-3

Jimmy for white 2-3

Jay to Keeble for blue 2-4

Joe for white 3-4

Jeff for white 4-4

Keebs to Rocc to Vince 4-5

Joe to Jim 5-5

Mark S to Joe 6-5

Vince 6-6

Jeff to Mark 7-6

Vince to Dimos to Keeble 7-7

Joe to Jim 8-7

Dimos 8-8

Jeff 9-8

Joe to Jeff with a beautiful header 10-8

Vince to Dimos 10-9

Rocc to Vince 10-10

Then Dominic showed up right on time for the nine o'clock game, and joined the white team to even up the sides at 8 v 8.

Mark hit the post and Mario finished up 11-10

Ed to Vince with another nice header 11-11

Jim 12-11

Joe 13-11

Vince with another steal & score 13-12

Mario to Rosner 14-12

Dom to Mario 15-12

Mario 16-12, at which point the game officially ended, although there may have been some additional goals scored.

See you next week, at eight.

Sunday Oct 2

It was rainy and dark at 7, but sunny and nice at 8 o'clock game time. We'll be staying at 8 for the rest of the month, mark your calendars. We started w/ 10 blue v 9 white, full court, no keepers. Guests Fernando and Joe.

Rocco for blue on an open net 1-0

Miller for blue 2-0

Joe to Keebo 2-1

Jay for blue 3-1

Timmy showed up & took over in the blue net, Mark Schwartz put on the gloves for white

Joe for white 3-2

Jay to Jeff 4-2

Another guest arrived, Greg?, in for white, Dimos came just in time for the nine o'clock game.

Ted for white 4-3

Rocco 5-3

Mike to Vince for blue 6-3

Joe lofted a cross from the 25 to Keeble's head 6-4

Miller 7-4

Jimmy to Mario 7-5

Jay 8-5

Keebs takes the ball at half court, turns and starts dribbling, all alone, but Mike is closing fast. Sensing danger, he unleashed the ball from the 30 and it found the net! 8-6

Keebs again, pretty much the same play, but from ther 25 8-7

Mark comes out of goal, Jimmy goes in,

Mark Schwartz from a possibly off sides position, to tie the game 8-8

Mike sinks a header of a keeper deflection 9-8

Miller 10-8

Miller 11-8

Snarky Mark 11-9

So Mark Miller finds his inner Keeble and starts to score for a change, missing a hat trick by just one goal! Fernando is starting to find his way and showed us some stuff today. The blue team came out of the doldrums, thanks to Dave, Mike and Keith, and finally won a game.

See you all next week.

Sunday Sept 25

Another 7:30 start, forecast is for rain, but it's pretty nice, warm and sunny. We got going with 9 white vs 11 blue, Steve in the blue net, Keith in for white. Mario brought his son, Brandon, Frank's back from Italy, and guest Fernando played for white. Lots of scoring today:

Joe Bagels to Keeble for white 1-0

Mario to Brandon for white 2-0

Rocc to Jay for blue, offsides

Keebs 3-0

Rosner to Keebs 4-0

Rosner to Brandon 5-0

Rocculous off a corner kick 5-1

Keebs 6-1

Joe to Rosner 7-1

At this point Jay gave Bobby a little lip, and Bobby don't take no lip. Jay went to the white team and Jeff came over to blue. Steve put on a uniform shirt and Joe M took over in the blue net.

Jay to Brandon 8-1

Jeff for blue 8-2

Mario 12-2

Frank left, Kennington left

Jay 13-2

Dave for blue 13-3

Joe 14-3

Dave again 14-4

So blue continues to suck. Maybe next week when Keith plays for blue things will improve. Whatever. So last week our guest Dennis tripped on the track chasing a ball, hurting himself and ending the game. Joe M took him directly to the hospital where he got general anesthesia and had his dislocated shoulder relocated. Big thumbs up to Joe.

Player of the Week

Will

Will hasn't played with us for while, just a few games this summer, but he used to be more dependable than anyone. Back in the days of Traphagen, the field would turn to concrete in summer and I would go fishing instead. Will would have his mom drive him to the games, he was too young to drive. Will is spending a semester in Florence, Italy and joined the school soccer team. You can follow his exploits at www.WGilchrist.blogspot.com

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.