WVU Wrap-up

Hey Everyone,

We're back in College Park now after a wild and wonderful weekend in West Virginia.  The Terps Club Lacrosse team cleaned up the competition, going 4-0 between Saturday and Sunday.  Here's a recap of the weekend for your information and enjoyment.

Playing on Mountaineer Field, the Terps, fresh from what seemed to me as about a 30 minute drive Friday evening (Time Traveled the sh*t out of that Tahoe), a night out in Morgantown, and the ever-classy Friends Inn, started out the day on Saturday with a close game against Towson.  When the final whistle blew, Maryland had won the game by one goal (9-8).  Later in the day, the Terps faced a humorous but lackluster team in the WVU Alumni.  With the Alumni heckling Kosiba and flirting with the wonderful Terps' stat girls Sheri and Rebekah, Maryland easily took care of business to make their record for the weekend 2-0.  Done for the day, the team looked for some entertainment in downtown Morgantown once again.

Saturday night could be described by some as a wild, dew-filled night, by others a description could be hard to come up with considering the memory loss.  I'll go through a couple highlights, feel free to add your own in the comment section...

• My boy Randal "She Flicked The Tip" Niles gettin lucky and having to be picked up 15 minutes before game time on Sunday

• Mark Gonzalez, unbeknownst to himself, making it rain all over Morgantown with his rubber-banded wad of landscaping cash
  

• WVU Alumni making moves on Rebekah at Lazy Lizard and Bent Willy's

• Some sloozy at Bent Willy's lifting her leg above her head on the dance floor and then proceeding to play air-guitar on said leg.  Naturally, the girl turned out to be a sister of one of the players on the WVU alumni team, and I was told that she was being "on her best behavior."
  

• Cramming 12 people into the Tahoe at the end of the night to bring everyone back to the hotel

• Fat Bitches, all over the place

...Just to name a few.  It's safe to say that the night was a success: no arrests, no people lost, no deaths.

Anyways, after a restless three to four hour sleep the team was ready for more lacrosse on Sunday morning.  Lucky for WVU, the Terps' first opponent, Maryland was still somewhat tired for the majority of the game.  Some of the starters took a seat to allow the young guns to come in and show the team what they were made of.  It turned out that the last five dews from Saturday night didn't make too much of a difference as the Mountaineers struggled to stop the unrelenting Maryland attack and were hardly able to stay within ten goals of the Terrapins for the majority of the game.  In the end, Maryland finished another definitive win over a team that they were expected to have have beaten as handily as they did.

To finish off the weekend, the Terps took the field at 11:30am on Sunday against Loyola.  While the Terps broke out to an early lead (5-2), the Greyhounds managed to tie it up by in the second half of the game.  Regulation ended with the two teams knotted-up with the score of (6-6).  Overtime began with a strong attack from the Loyola Greyhounds getting off slew of shots against Adam Davis, a new goalie for the Terps this fall.  Davis held his own and made number of saves in the sudden death overtime to force a second overtime period.  The second overtime period was sloppy for both teams, and it remained tied through another five minute period.  Determined to give the fans their money's worth, both teams took to the field for the third and final overtime period that was riddled with drama.  Shortly into the third period Loyola was on the attacking front barraging the young Davis with a number of shots that he handled with ease.  Then the unthinkable happened when a shot slipped away from Davis and trickled into the edge of the goal.  As the cheers from the Loyola sideline began to roar, the referees ran in with whistles blowing calling off the goal due to a crease violation on the Loyola attackman that poked the ball in.  With the sidelines back in order, play resumed with the Terps in control of the ball.  Shortly after the scare on the defensive end of the field, a pass found its way to the stick of Brett Kaminsky who was waiting on the crease on the offensive end of the field.  Immediately, three Loyola defenders had surrounded Kaminsky who looked as if he had nowhere to go.  Then, in a miraculous finish, Kaminsky scored with a sudden behind-the-back goal to give Maryland the win, and to keep the Terps undefeated for the weekend.

Congratulations to the entire team for a successful weekend of lacrosse.  The next game for the Terps is this upcoming Friday, October 16 at the University of Delaware.  Game time is scheduled for 6:45pm against the Blue Hens.

I will follow up this post tomorrow with a detailed listing of statistics from this past weekend.  Thank you Rebekah and Sheri for keeping stats, and putting up with our shenanigans for the weekend, even though they are quite cheeky and fun.


As always, remember to Never Pull Out.

BE THE BEST!!

-Sotak