Chaminade 13 - Parkway South 4

Goals: Rose - 6, Faust - 2, Glauber - 2, Meara - 2, Entwistle - 1
Assists: Hoette - 3, Lauber - 2, Meara - 2, Duncan - 1, Glauber - 1, Watkins - 1
Steals: Duncan - 6, Schott - 6, Faust - 5, Entwistle - 3, Hoette - 3, Rose - 3, Meara - 2, Watkins - 2
Kickouts: NONE!
Saves: Hoette - 5, Lauber - 2

Player of the Game: Duncan - 1 goal, 6 steals and great 2M defense on Pat Maloney.

Conference Tournament Opens Up Tonight

Tonight begins the varsity Conference Tournament, and we have two games, 6PM v. Parkway South and 9PM v. Parkway Central. Both games will be at MICDS. JV does not have any games and will have practice at 3:15pm.

Having just played Parkway South this week, we should know what they try to do. We need to be prepared to take it to them early and often.

I haven't seen Parkway Central yet, but they beat South in the Parkway Quad Tournament, so they should be pretty tough. We need to bring our game to them and force them to play it our way. Defensive intensity will be required.

We will also have DeSmet tomorrow morning at 9AM at MICDS to close out the round-robin stage of the Conference Tournament. After that, we will have one or two games remaining Saturday afternoon, depending on how we far in the round-robin.

See you tonight.

Chaminade 10 - Parkway South 7

The Red Devils picked up their first win in St. Louis as we beat Parkway South 10-7. The first game back from Orlando showed a lot of the things that the team picked up. We came out aggressively, playing for the steal on the defense. We jumped out to an early lead, something that the team last year seemed unable to do. However, one thing was reminiscent of the team last year, and that was the suffocating defense. Led by senior Jake Entwistle, who covered Pat Maloney (easily South’s best player), the defense created opportunities for the offense. Jake led the team with 9 steals, and never let Maloney get the ball for more than a half second if South even managed to get the ball into set. The defense pressed hard on the perimeter, and it took a couple of quarters to get used to the “new” referees and their calls, but we fixed our mistakes. Ed Rose led the counter attack, playing smart and leaving for offense when he should. His 5 goals led the team.

In goal, Chris Lauber dominated in the shallow end, playing aggressively and making a few steals, along with smart outlet passes. In the deep end Peter Hoette played his first game in St. Louis after a very promising showing in Florida, making good saves as well as a couple of steals.
The scoreboard doesn’t reflect the game, the Devils were in control the entire game. We were playing with great confidence and team defense, getting lots of shots and playing as if we could score whenever we needed to. The only problem was what would happen after a steal on defense, giving three of their goals to them by stealing the ball, and then getting it taken away and then South would have an advantage.

Players of the game were Ed Rose for his offense, and Jake Entwistle, for one of his best defensive efforts of the season.

-Senior Captain Jack Meara

Today v. Parkway South

Today the Red Devils take on the Parkway South Patriots at Parkway South. The JV game starts a 4PM and the varsity games starts at 5PM.

I know the Parkway South program fairly well as most of their kids have played for me at Jungle Cats at one point or another. I enjoy playing South because the are all good kids and don't play dirty. The varsity team is VERY fast and will be looking to counter all game. Senior Pat Maloney and Junior Jake Auinbaugh are big and fast kids, so Entwistle and Duncan will have their hands full. The JV team will probably be one of the best JV teams we play this year. South has a great sophomore and freshman class. I don't know how many of them are playing up on varsity, but I do know that freshmen Daniel Maloney and Michael Bowers are on JV and they will be tough.

This will be a good first test after a successful Florida trip.

Chaminade 9 - Parkway South 0

The first shutout of the season! The Red Devils continued imposing their defensive will this season by shutting down the Parkway South Patriots. Despite early offensive woes, the Red Devils never relented on defense and frustrated the talented Patriots all night.

On the offensive end, the Boys in Red tallied the second lowest shooting percentage in a win, and the fourth lowest shooting percentage all season. As expected, South's Jim Bowers was a wall in the first half and kept Chaminade to only three first half goals. But, the Red Devils never relented and never got discouraged with themselves or each other. When things aren't going the way you want, you can choose to give up and bicker amongst yourselves or you can choose to persist. Our boys were persistent and I'm proud of them. Seniors Jack Benage (5 goals) and Michael Kubik (3 goals) led the team out of the slump by countering hard all the way to the goal and attacking the goal whenever the opportunity arose.

We have DeSmet up next, hopefully tonight's second half carries thru to the next game so we can get a jump on the Spartans early and never look back.

Goals: Benage - 5, Kubik - 3, Meara - 1
Assists: Stabler - 5, Kubik - 1, Meara - 1, Watkins - 1
Steals: Kubik - 7, Stabler - 6, Entwistle - 4, Benage - 3, Faust - 3, Watkins - 3, Arnold - 2, Meara - 2, Hoette - 1
Kickouts: Meara - 1
Saves: Stabler - 11

Player of the Game: Stabler - 11 saves, 5 assists, 6 steals and his first career shutout

Up Next: The semi-finals of the Suburban South Conference Tournament. 7:30 PM on Wednesday April 30th v. DeSmet at MICDS.

Tonight v. Parkway South

Tonight, the Red Devils begin the post-season against the Parkway South Patriots. This is the first round of the Suburban Central Conference Tournament. The game will be played at MICDS and will start at 7:30 PM. This is our second meeting with the Patriots this year. The Red Devils won the first matchup 9-3 in what was a closer game than the score shows.

South's Senior goalie Jim Bowers is one of the best in the area and we need to make sure we take premium shots. We need to make Jim move side to side and we need to fake in order to lock him down. Jim can be a game changer and if he is on, South will be difficult to beat.

Starters:
#1 Blake Stabler
#2 Jack Benage
#3 Michael Kubik
#5 Kevin Arnold
#6 Jake Enwistle
#8 Danny Faust
#9 Peter Hoette

Chaminade 9 - Parkway South 3

The Red Devils have more wins than losses for the first time this season...a feat to be proud of! I'm going to sound like a broken record before too long because yet again our boys were tremendous on the defensive end and lacking on the offensive end. Chaminade held the Patriots to 3 goals and forced 23 turnovers, a season high. This was done through a press-no-foul defense on the perimeter and tenacious fronting of the 2M. In addition, the Red Devils recognized out of position Patriots and crashed the 2M on hole passes from the top when an opportunity arose.

On the offensive end, the Red Devils tied a season high in goals with 9, but shot less than 50% as Parkway South's Jim Bowers stopped 12 shots. Jim played very well, but our boys rushed a lot of shots, took too many outside shots and didn't force Jim to move across the goal-mouth with cross-goal passes. We still are working through the post-Spring Break rustiness, but at least the effort is there. The greatest thing we have going for us is our intensity level...we just need it to be more structured.

Things that went right:

• 2M defense
• Defensive awareness leading to a season high in steals

Things that went not so right:

• Patience on Offense
• 6-on-5 Offense (0 for 2)

Goals: Benage - 3, Arnold - 2, Kubik - 2, Faust - 1, Hoette - 1

Assists: Stabler - 4, Kubik - 2, Hoette - 1, Meara - 1, Watkins - 1

Steals: Stabler - 6, Duncan - 4, Kubik - 3, Arnold - 1, Fernandez - 2, Watkins - 2, Benage - 1, Entwistle -1, Faust - 1, Hoette -1

Kickouts: Kubik - 2, Duncan - 1

Saves: Stabler - 4

Player of the Game: Arnold - 2 goals on 3 shots, 2 steals and persistence on offense to recover two rebounds for goals

Up Next: Thursday April 3rd v. Lafayette @ Lafayette. JV at 4:15 PM, Varsity at 5:15 PM.

Tonight v. Parkway South

Chaminade will be scrapping with the Parkway South Patriots tonight at Parkway South. The JV game starts at 7:00 PM followed by the Varsity game at about 8:00 PM. We will be short super Sophomore Kevin Glauber tonight as he is making up his Monday absence. As of writing, I am unaware of the status of Junior Jack Meara has he hurt his arm blocking a shot yesterday in practice. We all hope he is okay.

I am more familiar with these Patriots than any team in the area, besides maybe SLUH. I think nearly every South player played for me at Jungle Cats at some point in the last two years. Senior Jake Meyer is their best overall player who has skills on both the defensive and offensive end. What Jake lacks in stature, he makes up for in smarts. Like Ladue's Varwig, Jake travelled with us to California last summer and has a great deal of experience. Junior Patrick Maloney is South's best 2M player and is also their fastest swimmer. Entwistle, Faust and Duncan will again be called upon to shadow Patrick everywhere. In my opinion, Senior goalie Jim Bowers is one of the 5 best in the area, but South's weakness is their reliance on underclassmen that are talented but undersized and inexperienced. Our Red Devils are savvy veterans who can hopefully out-smart and out-work the younger and less aware Patriots. It should be a good one. 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