April 8, 2008

Tonight v. Parkway North

Tonight, the Red Devils of Chamiande will battle with the Parkway North Vikings, one of the four remaining teams with 2 losses or less (Chaminade being one of the four). The JV game will start at 7:00 PM and the varsity game will follow at approximately 8:00 PM. We will have all hands on deck as Sophomore Kevin Glauber is returning to the varsity lineup tonight.

I don't know much about North except for the 2 kids who played for me and what I have heard from other people. I became familiar with Sophomore Marty Ruzicka two summers ago at Jungle Cats and he is a smart player. What he lacks in stature he makes up for in awareness and aggressiveness. On Jungle Cats, he is one of the best 2M guards his age, but I'm not sure how the North coach is using him. Jack Buelter is a sophomore or freshman (I can't remember!) who played for me this winter. Jack was one of my favorites because, like all of our Chaminade boys, he was so coachable. He was a kid that you could tell: "Jack, run thru that brick wall" and he would do it until you asked him to stop. Kevin Arnold is that way too, except only the exact opposite. Kevin tells me to run thru a brick wall.

As far as hearsay, apparently North has a good goalie and a big 2M. The big 2M we can handle (as shown by Fausty's performance against Marquette), but the the good goalie is of some concern as our shot selection and accuracy hasn't been too great of late. But, as long as we take care of business on the defensive end, offense will take care of itself. I've said it before, you can't force offense because it's something you can't control. What you can control is your effort on the defensive end, which is our strength.

This will be a good game. North has some pretty good bleachers, so please come out and support the Boys in Red. We need more cowbell. See you there.

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

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