Lax to the Max

'We thought our goose was cooked…

May

but then we got our ducks in a row.’ – Brewster’s Zach Badalucco

Horace Greeley’s Nathan Becker falls to the turf while being pursued by Brewster defenders. (Photo by Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

• For photos from the Brewster-Greeley game, click here.

• For a video from the game, click here.

I’m not sure if that was the corniest expression I’ve ever heard, or the best, but frankly, I don’t care. It was awesome to get a quote that I had never heard before.

After the game, a 10-5 Brewster win, what struck me was how if you arrived after the game and looked at postgame meetings, you’d have been completely confused as to who won and who lost. In fact, not confused, you would have gotten it wrong.

Brewster was a frustrated team that felt it had a subpar performance, especially after an impressive showing in an 11-10 loss at Yorktown and a good 9-6 win over Long Island’s Hauppauge.

Horace Greeley was encouraged that it played Brewster, one of the best teams in the section very well.

Of course, this gets in the dangerous territory of the “moral victory” debate, and Greeley coach Roy Colsey was quick to say there are no such things. However, he could be legitimately pleased with his defense, especially Derek Katchis who did a great job against Section 1 leading goal scorer Matt King, holding him without a goal.

As for Brewster, it’s clearly John Jay’s biggest threat in Class B. But to eveb have a remote chance in that type of game, it would need to play significantly better than it did against Greeley to have any chance. If it didn’t, its goose would get cooked really, really fast.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 1:53 am by jgold.
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4 Responses to “'We thought our goose was cooked…”

hassel May 7th, 2008 at 6:00 am
hahahahahahahaha yea bada!!!
deano May 7th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
could it be that Greeley is better than imagined?
Joe May 7th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Fowl metaphor!
Syracuse May 7th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
C'mon man … "But to even have a remote chance in that type of game, (Brewster) would need to play significantly better than it did against Greeley to have any chance."

Here we go again. John Jay is not this juggernaut. They are a good team, sure, but they are not world beaters.

Let's see the Jay D, which very often gets a free pass on this board it seems, slow down Brewster's offense, which many of the guys from The Journal News have called one of the best in Section I.

Let's talk about that for a change.

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