The Trojan lacrosse team has been forced to keep its win-streak on hold for a few weeks due to crazy amounts of rain in southern California.  Someone needs to get Al Gore on the phone and let him know that global warming has just gotten serious: it’s affecting lacrosse.  

People of America hear me when I say the climate is out of control.  Innocent college lacrosse players are being denied their freedom to play lacrosse.  Citizens, it would appear America has a new enemy.  We’re being terrorized by Mother Nature.  

The climate alert has just been updated to an orange, almost red level.  It’s kinda like a burnt orange.   Or a sunset-esk amount of terror.

Which is ironic because things are far from sunny!  We must come together and solve the climate crisis before lacrosse remains a victim of of Mother Nature forever.  I pray the Lax Gods her something for Valentine’s Day…

It was a stat rat’s weekend at the Texas A&M tournament this weekend.  The SC offense came out bangin’ mad G’s scoring 18,16, 11; in our games against Kansas, Baylor, and A&M respectively.  Our defense put in even more effort than our offense.  The D killed all kinds of man-down situations.  Yes, we’re still having problems with penalties.  But the average is slowing dropping.  So that’s a plus.  Honestly though, I think the MCLA just needs to add some flexibility to the rules to account for our beastitude.

Kase Lawal topped off the weekend with an OT game winner against Texas A&M; and it was almost too perfect.  Only a few minutes into OT Kase had the ball at the top of the box and we all knew what was coming.  The stars had aligned: it was his home state, his parents were at the game, he’s a captain, he’s a senior, and he has the dirtiest split dodge on the team.  Just about everyone on the SC sidelines had their hands in the air before Kase even shot.  It was a great way to wrap up the weekend.

As for Texas itself, we have all been pleasantly surprised by what the Great State has to offer.  Unfortunately, the weather was a little cooler than we had hoped for.  So the only usage of Daisy Dukes was kept secret.  The sun was definitely out, though.  Half of our team looks like stop signs.  We all needed to start our spring-break base anyway.

A special thanks goes out to all the parents and relatives of the team that fed us to point of explosion.  We all appreciate the hospitality so much.  I think we can attribute the wins this weekend to being so well nourished.   Thank you.

I’ve been pacing my room for the past hour trying to figure out why we lost to LMU this past Saturday.  Talent definitely was not the issue.  Yes, they’re ranked higher than us but we hung with them almost the entire game.  Sure we had some trouble defeating their ten-man ride and yeah, we allowed ourselves, again, to be man-down more than we would’ve liked, but we owe the loss to something greater.  I’m blaming the loss against LMU to team dissonance.

There’s been a heated debate among the team for almost two weeks now and it’s tearing us apart.  There’s been yelling, fighting, stick throwing, even graphs and pie charts have been made in effort to try and explain who’s the hottest 2010 Sport Illustrated swimsuit model.  No one can come to an agreement.  It’s utter chaos.

I happen to think Melissa Satta takes the cake with her painted on Italian soccer jersey.  Her swimsuit is painted on and that barely does her body justice.  The woman is flawless.  I challenge you to flip to that page and not feel immediate primal rage towards her boyfriend, ex-Italian striker, Christian Vieri.  Dude plays soccer!  Scratch that; played soccer.  Come on!  What does he have that I don’t?  Looks?  Na, there’s a picture of him.  Millions?  I’m working on that.  Athletic prowess?  I’m an SC Laxer!

I just don’t get women, man.

I’ve been pacing my room for the past hour trying to figure out why we lost to LMU this past Saturday.  Talent definitely was not the issue.  Yes, they’re ranked higher than us but we hung with them almost the entire game.  Sure we had some trouble defeating their ten-man ride and yeah, we allowed ourselves, again, to be man-down more than we would’ve liked, but we owe the loss to something greater.  I’m blaming the loss against LMU to team dissonance.

There’s been a heated debate among the team for almost two weeks now and it’s tearing us apart.  There’s been yelling, fighting, stick throwing, even graphs and pie charts have been made in effort to try and explain who’s the hottest 2010 Sport Illustrated swimsuit model.  No one can come to an agreement.  It’s utter chaos.

I happen to think Melissa Satta takes the cake with her painted on Italian soccer jersey.  Her swimsuit is painted on and even that barely does her body justice.  The woman is flawless.  I challenge you to flip to that page and not feel immediate primal rage towards her boyfriend, ex-Italian striker, Christian Vieri.  Dude plays soccer!  Scratch that; played soccer.  Come on!  What does he have that I don’t?  Looks?  Na, there’s a picture of him.  Millions?  I’m working on that.  Athletic prowess?  I’m an SC Laxer!

I just don’t get women.

On the airplane back to L.A. we still couldn’t escape the excitement from the win over University of Washington. John Duddridge finished the game with 4 goals, 3 assists; but the greatest part about this win was that we played strong all across the field. Midfielder, Matt Williams, came up clutch with under a minute to go with the game winner, and Alex Rice proved he not only has ‘ice’ in his name but ice in his veins saving a last second shot attempt by the Huskies. Our only weakness was mental mistakes, allowing ourselves to be man-down far more than we would have liked. We were multiple men down on more than one occasion. Even on the flight home.

The tournament was a great way to start off the season and the Washington game was a great way to head into our conference game this weekend against LMU.

Make sure to watch Sean White take home gold this week. Go USA.

Greetings from Seattle, Washington.

The Lax Gods wept today (or maybe it was just the crappy Seattle weather) as the Trojans lost against the OSU Beavers.

With the excitement of the Avatar DVD wearing off, the team turned its focus towards today’s game.  The Trojans came out firing scoring six goals in the first quarter.  In the 2nd quarter we continued to get good shots off but couldn’t put them in the back of the net.  Going into the second half the score was tied, 6-6.

The fourth quarter we recovered from our offensive slump and tied the Beavers 10-10.  But just like Apolo Ono, we just couldn’t bring home the gold.

The good news is Will Purvis’s attempt at a mustache is coming in much more cleanly than anticipated.  We’re hoping that’ll be a great intimidation tool for the second middy line.  And with yours truly suffering a still painful collarbone injury, lefty attackman Jack Buntmann is getting his debut start against Washington tomorrow.  He sadly, can’t grow facial hair, but is known to be an artist with eye-black.  So he’s got his intimidation on lock.

Go USA!

Due to field conditions at our backup site, Mira Costa High Schoool, the UNLV @ USC game for 2/7 has been canceled.

Not since we found out the DVD release of Avatar would have an alien sex scene in it has there been so much excitement among the ’10 USC Men’s Lacrosse team.  The 2010 season begins this Sunday at home against UNLV and the Trojan laxers plan to start the season out with a bang.  Though our ’09 season didn’t produce the record we would’ve hoped for, the changes we made to our organization last year created a buzz that brought out a wave of talent for the ’10 season.

The Trojan Lax team is stronger at every position.  With more numbers than we’ve had in the past, competition for spots on the starting roster has caused every practice to become a proving ground for each player.  As a result, each player finds they are fueled by the same motivation that the team has as a whole: to prove ourselves every chance we get.

The ’09 season left a bad taste in our mouth, and after many trips to the bar we’ve realized there’s only one way to wash it out.  We plan to set the tone for our entire season this Sunday against UNLV.   In our minds, the spotlight is on us to see if the USC Men’s Lacrosse program can become a national contender.  Equipped with an improved coaching staff and more talent than ever, the 2010 Trojan Men’s Lacrosse team is ready to step up to the challenge.