The schedule for the 2008 Kuppa Tournament should be posted at www.mowaterpolo.com sometime this weekend. Games begin Monday night, although JCWP has no games until Tuesday. Players listed in bold below are team captains. Teams are to substitute every 2+ minutes of game time, and all players are to receive equal playing time through the first three quarters of each game.
More information about Monday's practice will be posted on this blog soon.
Team 1
*Ancel, Zak
D'Alessandro, Dave
Duncan, Chris
Geisman, Dan
Geisman, Matt
Goeddel, Dan
Heafner, John
Kovacs, Ben
Lewis, John
Maurer, John
Moorkamp, Sam
Morrissey, Bob
Sigman, Steve
Vierod, Alistair
Wetzel, Keaton
Team 2
*Jungels, Dylan
Beckerle, Andrew
Bretscher, Luke
Buelter, Jack
Gallas, Kevin
Gerber, Charles
Going, Trent
Harris, Eddie
Kimbrough, Ben
Kramer, Mitch
Piening, Kurt
Piening, Nick
Pike, Daniel
Ruzicka, Marty
Wurm, Max
Team 3
*Hohenberger, Matt
Brendell, Connor
Castro, Ben
Chellis, Luke
Dale, Tim
Garlock, Robert
Huang, Jonathan
Jones, Mitchell
Ladd, Elliot
O'Neill, Michael
Ottenlips, Michael
Savio, John
Schachtman, Nathan
Varwig, Zach
Wall, Patrick
Team 4
*Berry, Matt
Archer, Pat
Bequette, Mitchell
Brockgreitens, John
Debandt, Nick
Derdeyn, Will
Digman, Misha
Golterman, Rob
Gude, Andrew
Hagerty, Michael
Kabance, Joe
Luhmann, Bill
Page, William
Sizemore, Mike
Tucker, Jim
Team 5
*Bowers, Jim
*Mulch, Ben
Allen, Luke
Auinbauh, Jake
Faddis, Colby
Gleason, Brett
Maloney, Patrick
Meyer, Jake
Meyer, Mitch
Murphy, Erin
Petralia, Anthony
Rust, Tom
Venigalla, Bhavya
Wilson, Will
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Black loses 7-4 to Daisy Red
It was a tale of stagnant offense.
Defensively, Black played well, especially in the drop defense. Goalie Zach Ancel had a good game considering he has been in Honduras for a month and has to play in a close game cold turkey. By dropping off the point and forcing Daisy Red to take outside shots, Black was able to generate a good amount of counter attack chances. Converting on those chances was a another story.
Generally, there was effort going to offense, but it took a while for Zach to find an open man due to a lack of winging out. Once an open man was found, it took to long to find the 2M holding his side and when a pass was thrown in too late, either the 2M lost position or the goalie/sluffer stole the entry pass. A point of improvement this week in practice will be looking inside at the first touch and making sure the goalie and other defenders aren't looking for a steal.
Another improvement can be made on the 6-on-5 as Black had a 0% conversion rate on at least 4 chances with a man advantage. The boys set-up very well, but tend to drift too far away from the goal and don't cross the goalie quick enough to create good shots.
But enough with the negative. Zach Varwig scored Black's first goal on a beautiful lay-out in one of our first possessions and nearly duplicated it a possession later. Max Wurm earned his second consecutive Player of the Game award for his tenacity during the drop defense and a perfect cross-goal pass that the shooter just barred out.
The truth is you can't play great all of the time. This was a bump in the road and I am confident that this will lead to greater effort and improvement during practice this week. It's just fuel to the fire.
-Coach Tom
Defensively, Black played well, especially in the drop defense. Goalie Zach Ancel had a good game considering he has been in Honduras for a month and has to play in a close game cold turkey. By dropping off the point and forcing Daisy Red to take outside shots, Black was able to generate a good amount of counter attack chances. Converting on those chances was a another story.
Generally, there was effort going to offense, but it took a while for Zach to find an open man due to a lack of winging out. Once an open man was found, it took to long to find the 2M holding his side and when a pass was thrown in too late, either the 2M lost position or the goalie/sluffer stole the entry pass. A point of improvement this week in practice will be looking inside at the first touch and making sure the goalie and other defenders aren't looking for a steal.
Another improvement can be made on the 6-on-5 as Black had a 0% conversion rate on at least 4 chances with a man advantage. The boys set-up very well, but tend to drift too far away from the goal and don't cross the goalie quick enough to create good shots.
But enough with the negative. Zach Varwig scored Black's first goal on a beautiful lay-out in one of our first possessions and nearly duplicated it a possession later. Max Wurm earned his second consecutive Player of the Game award for his tenacity during the drop defense and a perfect cross-goal pass that the shooter just barred out.
The truth is you can't play great all of the time. This was a bump in the road and I am confident that this will lead to greater effort and improvement during practice this week. It's just fuel to the fire.
-Coach Tom
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Brown Squad Continues Improvement
The JCWP Brown team continued its trend of improvement with a narrow 9-7 loss at the hands of Mad Dog. Offensively, the Cats looked great the whole game with strong performances from Mitch Meyer, Colby Faddis, and John Lewis. Defensively, goalie Ben was great between the pipes making numerous incredible saves and added to his steal total by coming out of the net on counter-attacks. This is the 3rd straight narrow loss for the Cats. The marked improvement coincided with the spirited game against JCWP Orange. The Brown guys have really played well since then and everyone is ready to breakthrough for our first win.
-jp
-jp
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Kittens vs. SLAP 7/8
It was an exciting game this week at Ladue for the Jungle Cat Kittens. We played the SLAP 7/8 squad who were planning on giving us quite a fight. The 1st and 2nd quarter the Kittens played very well. On offense we scored a beautiful 2 on o from Thomas to Michael B. This was something we have not worked on at all in practice but it was evident after the 2 other cross goal passes we scored that the Kittens understand this concept. The oppurtunities we had to set up the offense also went well. The team was spread out and the wings and flats released well to get the ball down the pool.
Defensively Coach Ray and I constantly told the players to play passing lanes. This was something you could tell they were thinking about and actually doing. Occasionally the other team snuck a little to close to the goal for comfort but hopefully everyone understands that their head must stay on a swivel and they need to be constantly watching the action and the person they are defending.
The third quarter we had a slight letdown and the other team came back making the score 5-4. After a pep talk from the coaches the team came out ready to play in the 4th quarter and ended up posting a win of 8-4.
The things that coach and I were really proud of were the placement of players on offense, our 2 on o and 2 on 1 cross goal passes, our releases, and our passing lane defense. Things started to seem to click.
Kudos to Peter D. for being the player of the game. He had a 1 on o and took all the time he needed to fake the goalie and score. He also drew a kickout when driving hard to the goal while keeping his defender on his back. All in all a great effort. It was a great win for the Kittens.
Defensively Coach Ray and I constantly told the players to play passing lanes. This was something you could tell they were thinking about and actually doing. Occasionally the other team snuck a little to close to the goal for comfort but hopefully everyone understands that their head must stay on a swivel and they need to be constantly watching the action and the person they are defending.
The third quarter we had a slight letdown and the other team came back making the score 5-4. After a pep talk from the coaches the team came out ready to play in the 4th quarter and ended up posting a win of 8-4.
The things that coach and I were really proud of were the placement of players on offense, our 2 on o and 2 on 1 cross goal passes, our releases, and our passing lane defense. Things started to seem to click.
Kudos to Peter D. for being the player of the game. He had a 1 on o and took all the time he needed to fake the goalie and score. He also drew a kickout when driving hard to the goal while keeping his defender on his back. All in all a great effort. It was a great win for the Kittens.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Games this weekend
Crews will be demolishing the Clayton-Warson overpass as part of the I64-40 shut down this weekend, beginning at 10pm, Jan. 25. Please be aware of this if your normal route to either Ladue or MICDS involves this area and plan accordingly. Warson will be closed at the demolition site; Clayton will be restricted to 1 lane. Additional information is available here.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Welcome to the New Announcements Page
Greetings JCWP players, parents, and fans!
As you can see, our Announcements page has changed places, but hopefully you will find the change has been for the better. By switching to a 'blog' style announcements page, we think that:
> the dissemination of information will become significantly easier.
> posting will become more frequent, from all coaches & levels
> you, as an interested party, will be more informed than ever!
> people will comment on posts, if they so desire.
Another great thing about going to a 'blog' is the ability to have any posts sent to you automatically through RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. You will see the logos for Google, My Yahoo, My AOL, etc. on the right side of this page. If you use any of these pages, you can add JCWP as one of your feeds. To learn more about RSS, click here.
Please pass along any questions/comments/issues that you have with the new site. Again, we at JCWP truly hope this will make our website even better.
--jp
As you can see, our Announcements page has changed places, but hopefully you will find the change has been for the better. By switching to a 'blog' style announcements page, we think that:
> the dissemination of information will become significantly easier.
> posting will become more frequent, from all coaches & levels
> you, as an interested party, will be more informed than ever!
> people will comment on posts, if they so desire.
Another great thing about going to a 'blog' is the ability to have any posts sent to you automatically through RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. You will see the logos for Google, My Yahoo, My AOL, etc. on the right side of this page. If you use any of these pages, you can add JCWP as one of your feeds. To learn more about RSS, click here.
Please pass along any questions/comments/issues that you have with the new site. Again, we at JCWP truly hope this will make our website even better.
--jp
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