Writing Friday #3: Personal and Fictional

Writing Friday #3: Narrative: Personal and Fictional

My most memorable Saturday was with my lacrosse team. We had started out “Lax Splash” on Friday. “Lax Splash” is a huge tournament where hundreds of teams come from different states. On Friday we went out and played Perry Hall. They were horrible. The game wasn’t that good either. It was cold, clammy, dark, and muddy. I started out the game on middie. I took the face-off and won. I passed to a teammate and he drew most of the defensemen and I got the ball and scored. It was easy. It took about five seconds. The rest of the game I got cocky. I tried all of these hard shots where I could have passed it to a teammate and they could have scored. We ended up winning by about eight. That was the only game we had that day. The next we would play two games in the morning. If we won three, we would go to the playoffs.
It was a nice Saturday morning with wet grass, it rained the night before. We started against a team called Gamber. They were big but they couldn’t play lacrosse that well. It started out slow. We scored then they scored. It was a see-saw game. It was easy to run down the field because it was irregularly small. There would go out of bounce almost every play. By half-time we were up by one. Our coach gave us some pep talk and we went back out onto the field. On the first play there was a fast-break and I got the ball and shot it right over the goalies head and scored. On the next play the ball was behind the goalie and I sneaked in front of my defenseman. I got the ball, and with an very weird semi-flick push motion, I got it into the goal. We ended up winning by four. We had a quick break and walked over to our next game.
This field was also very small. About the same size. It was against Reisterstown. They were both big and small, like our team, and they had good ball-handling skills. It was a tough game. It was again a see-saw game, but in their favor. They would score, and then we would score, trying to hang on. I scored two goals that game, one was a fake and dump goal on a fast break, and I can’t remember the second. We ended up winning by two. It was a tough game, especially with the team we just beat rooting for the other team.
On Sunday we had a very tough game. We had made it into the playoffs and were going to play Carroll manor. They were really good. I had one goal. It was a really hard outside shot that landed top right. The field was big and was on a hill, so running was tough. We were losing by three at the half. We came back with three miraculous goals to tie it up. After that, we had tired the defense, which was very big. We got two more easy goals and won. We were going to the Semi-finals.
We were going against one of the toughest teams in the tournament, Cobra. It was not a good game. I did not score and they were faster and better than us. They were running the same play every time and kept scoring. They ended up winning by eight. Greg Louzan was on that team. They ended beating the other MLC team in the finals which had Kyle Krumenacker on that team. It was a good end though. We played 9-0. This was very memorable because our team played very well and stuck together like a team.