Tonight v. Ladue

The Red Devils are taking on the Ladue Rams tonight at Chaminade. The JV game starts at 7:00 PM followed by the Varsity game at about 8:00 PM. To my knowledge, we will have everyone dressed for the game without any lingering absences to make up. It's nice to come off Spring Break with a full lineup and a clean slate. I expect we will be be pretty rusty and relatively out of shape, so there will be lots of substitutions.

I am not very familiar with this Ladue team. I coached two of their players in the offseason, Zach Varwig and Patrick Wall. Zach is a senior who has played for me for two years and even went to California with me last summer for the Junior Olympics. Zach is Ladue's primary 2M and will probably be the strongest kid in the pool tonight (apologies to Kevin Arnold). When he wants to, Zach can be a game-changer so Jack Benage, Danny Faust, Jake Entwistle and Chris Duncan will have to keep a close eye on him all night. There was a nice write-up about Zach in the Post, you can read it here.

This will most likely be the most competitive home game we have remaining. They will bring lots of fans, so should we. See you tonight.

Starters for Varsity:
#1 Blake Stabler
#2 Jack Benage (c)
#3 Michael Kubik
#5 Kevin Arnold (c)
#8 Danny Faust
#9 Peter Hoette
#11 Dan Fernandez