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Well a much better start to the day this weekend as the Coach gave us a meeting time of Friday night in order to make sure we made it to the park in time for the 1pm kickoff in the Bronx. Good planning, coach as everyone was on time with game faces on.
Saturday was the day to be at Van Cortland. Unbelievable pitch. I did not know that you could fit that many rocks into onto one field. Those guys from NY are pretty tricky. They also made sure it was a nice wide and long field so their brutes would get a nice workout. However the weather was great and we had 22 guys who were as ready as could be for the job ahead.
New Haven saw the return to the team of Big Daddy and Tony and boy did we need them
NYConn held no surprises big powerful and subtleness of lump hammers.
NYConn pounded us up front though on the breaks we looked dangerous but it was always going to be brutally hard. NYConn found help from generous officiating, which yielded the first of 65 yellow cards for New Haven on the weekend. Bad for the weekend but good for the team as each one yields us a 30 of our favorite beer....Coors Light (please support the sponsors www.coorslight.com) Anyway we to go into the break 8 - 0 down which could have been more but no one could kick this weekend. It really doesn't tell you how hard we defended and seeing Leo and Matt smashing one of their mammoths back from the score line was heart warming to say least.
During the break was a case of ironing a few creases out of the side and getting us to play our game - with Jason Smith leading from the front, because he is not that smart as the guys in front get smashed first (the last website photo tells the story) we pressured a now tiring NYConn side.
With the pack starting to shove the NYCONN side around, mostly in loose play, gave the team new legs and Chris promptly put in 2 nice tries from within sniffing distance of the try line and converted one. Another solid effort from the pack and workman like effort t from Quadzilla, Victor Milani, saw the team push ahead 19-8. The last try of the day for NH came on a brilliant read from the revitalized #13 who got a new back over the winter and has a curiously thicker head of hair these days. An 80 meter sprint and the team looked to be running away with it 24-8.
Then came yellow man, no not Benny, but the guy with an itch for the yellow which would follow us for 2 days, With 7 minutes remaining we found Burt and Ewan in the sin bin - NYConn hit back during this with 2 tries to cut the lead to 24 - 20 ..........7 minutes? Well 7 minutes suddenly turned into 13 minutes and no return from the sin bin for our guys - Saxy ever the wise one found ever more ways of getting a ball from out of bounds with the speed of a sedated sloth thumbs up to you Saxy.
We held on for the win and deservedly so - Crowd storms the field. Marching band gets trampled in stampede. Ok, maybe not that last part.
Anyone there would tell you it was massive day for the club - despite the sin bins and two late tries we earned that win - the heart shown by the guys was amazing - everyone needed to step up to the plate and they did.
Moving on to the wolfhounds:
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Match Results
