Saturday, June 27, 2009

JCWP 12 - Mundelein 12

Mundelein brought a very good team, and the game was back and forth the whole game. Down 6-4 at half, the Cats played a great third quarter shooting deep and took another lead into the 4th quarter, up 9-8 defending the deep.

The Cats learned from the experience of letting up late against Walrus and fought hard in the 4th despite being at a disadvantage of defending deep against a big and physical team. Mundelein had two big shooters who took advantage of our crash defense with accurate outside shots. We adjusted by playing man-up on those two while continuing our crash. We held those guys at bay and survived a last second play to hold on for the tie.

Maloney was again the king of winging out. Sam Erlinger had a solid two goal performance on top of a few assists. Sean Sullivan had a great game, with great passing, aggressive stealing and some key blocks. Zach Smith was again an obvious choice for POTG for creating his own offense nearly every time down the pool, resulting in a hat trick and numerous assists.

We ended the long day with a giant meal at Maggiano's. Peter Buelter made his case for inheriting John Heafner's title as "human garbage disposal".

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