Rhino League

I finished up the 6 weeks of the Fall league.  I missed last Sunday because of a cold and that it was raining.  This was homecoming weekend and the dance was kind of boring.  I was excited to get on the field today.  It was sunny and 50 and when the games were over, I thought I did pretty well, playing against upper class girls from around the state.  I have signed up to play indoor lacrosse beginning in late November.  That will be fun and can help to hone my skills for the Jesuit season.

Lacrosse League

I really didn’t feel like going to Rhino today.  Yesterday I had a crosss country meet and it rained and rained and rained.  I am glad I did go though.  I thought I played pretty well and the coaches told me so.  I did get my hand checked though.  I just completed a 1 to 2 minute sequence where I made a few good checks and that is when I got my finger checked.  Ouch it hurt.

Fall Lacrosse League

The Rhino lacrosee league for Portland area High School players is a lot of fun.  I seem to be a little rusty, but otherwise am learning a few tips and tricks.  My goal was to participate in the fall league and then “try-out” for the Select team that travels to the Sand-storm tourney in SoCal. 

I learned that the trip is in January and it falls on the weekend before our 1st semester finals week.  There is no way I can be gone the whole weekend Thrusday-Sun and come home and expet to do well on my finals.  Bummer.  I really wanted to participate with my new friends.  Maybe next year.

The image to the left was taken from the Rhino website on October 9, 2009.  That is me on the left with the ball.

Rhino Lacrosse

We had a very good practice/league today.  About 40 girls from around the city came together and we were split into 4 teams for some scrimmage.  It was a lot of fun.  I thought I played pretty well, except for a couple of drops in the first game.  I hope the weather holds for the next 6 weeks.  I love playing in the sunshine.

Fall High School Lacrosse

I got signed up for the Rhino Lacrosse Fall League.  I will gt to play with an assortment of other high school girls from around Portland.  Last fall, I thought most came from Oregon City or the Lake Oswego area.  No wonder, it is real close for them.

This past Sunday was the first weekend and I was surprised that there were over 40 girls and some goalies.  Yeah!  The coaches knew me from last year when I was a freshman.  It was fun and the weather was nice for running around on a Sunday afternoon.

Post Season / No School

The season has been over for a month and am having lacrosse withdrawals. The other day I did receive notice from Coach Traci that she will have open field on Wednesday for scrimmages. Yeah.

Sherwood Lacrosse Game

Last game of the season against Sherwood at home.  They showed up with on 10 players, so we had to play “down” to make it even.  I started a A-wing and scored the 3rd or 4th goal of the game.  Again, I only took 1 shot.  The coaches wanted us to “settle” so we spent most of the first half passing and led 8 – 2 at half.  With the sun out and in the eyes of the goalie, the second half was a little different.  Sherwood score 4 straight goals to make it 8 – 6 with 9 minutes to play.  We ended up winning 12 – 8 to finish the season on a mini-winning streak.

Tigard Lacrosse Game

Our second to last game against Tigard.  We beat them a few weeks ago 9-2.  This week we led 7-1 at half and won 9 – 3.  I scored the first goal of the game and only took 1 shot.  The coaches wanted to see us cut and pass rather than cut and shoot.  I didn’t play at all in the second half, which was alright since there are a few girls who don’t normally get to play much, who got to play.

Thursday Practice 4.30

I thought this was going to be the worst practice of the year.  We just lost to Sunset at home 9 – 2.  We played really bad except for our goalie.  There were so many drops and rainbow passes.  I don’t think we had more than 5 or 6 shots on goal the whole game.  Anyway, practice was playing games like capture the flag and lax tag.  Tomorrow, we get to watch “game film” from the Sunset loss.  Goody…

Monday Practice April 27th

Lots of running.  It seemed like the coach wanted us to work like a team and to act like a team.  We were told to run as a team and to encourage each other.  I wish that the coaches would film a game and sit down with us and watch it.  That way they could offer feedback as to how to improve, like passing to the open girl or how to field a ground ball.