Jungle Cat Orange vs. Flyer

Orange vs. Flyer B

After close games the last two weeks, Jungle Cat Orange showed that they were learning how to work as a team and how to correct their errors. While the flyers players were physically larger than us, we were able to exploit their relative inexperience. As well throughout the game the flyers players were walking on the bottom and holding, but we were able to play through at least for the first three quarters. Our biggest success was on defense where, multiple times, their goalie held the ball for their full shot clock. Archer commented after the game that he enjoyed not being shot on. As well, we made some good steals both 1-on-1 and as a team that fueled our offensive counter attack. With these attributes we clearly dominated the game the first three quarters. At the end of the first it was 3-0. In the second quarter we scored 3 more goals and in the forth we scored 4. Ahead 10-0 we went into the forth quarter with an attitude of complacency. While it is true that we didn’t need to score and only needed to play defense in that last quarter, the Orange team managed to keep the Flyers scoreless, but not with the same intensity that was present in the first three quarters. It is often difficult to learn when you are ahead by ten goalies, but that is the time to demonstrate consistency in the set up half court offense and continue the passing lane defense. Orange made dramatic improvements in the past two weeks, and this game really demonstrated what they had been learning on half court and 6-on-5. It was a very impressive performance. Players of the game were two meter guards.

Coach O’Neill