McCrae has decided to try out a new position on the turf. For some unknown reason he has decided to let people fire the ball at him. This weekend at the Lexington Face Off McCrae played goalie on Sunday and on Saturday he played his typical position as a shooter. On the field he racked up 12 goals and 7 assists and in net over two games he had 21 saves with one goal against and a shut out. You can see his goalie pictures here http://chriswilliams.smugmug.com/keyword/mccrae%20goalie#P-1-25.
Hockey is over and before you know it, or I guess I should say before I knew it, we were standing on a lacrosse field. I’ve been traveling with Chase to meet college lacrosse coaches and both Chase and McCrae have started lacrosse practice. The Weston Varsity has started captain practice and have started running. I hear there is a mess in aisle 4 that needs to be cleaned up. Weston Youth Lacrosse has also started practicing in the gym. McCrae’s NESLL team played last weekend in their first tournament at the Harvard bubble which for NESLL is the event that kicks off the year. I guess the week before the bubble had popped and had to be evacuated… that must have been an interesting situation. The u13 NESLL black and NESLL blue teams have a number of Weston kids playing (McCrae, Tommy R, Matt P and Frank B).
I shot pictures of McCrae’s team (Matt, Frank and McCrae) but there are a few pictures of Tommy as well since we played his team twice. You can see them here http://chriswilliams.smugmug.com/McCrae-Lacrosse/NESLL/NESLL-March-Madness-2010/11441829_KJbKy#804483670_cdwgr.
Last fall I started shooting some video and plan to do more of this for the lacrosse season. But this is a little tentative as the editing time is tough and my video editing solution from ADOBE is VERY VERY unreliable… You can find the video on my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/chrisdiannefamily.
McCrae played in the NESLL Jingle Bells tournament yesterday. We left the house first thing in the morning after Dad shoveled the drive. With 10″ of snow on the ground it seemed a strange day to be playing lacrosse, but game on. The tournament was out in Marlboro at this new indoor sports complex ForeKicks (http://www.forekicks.com/) that was just amazing. I would say about half of the people who signed up showed up. The drive was slow as the roads were still a mess. Games were great even though McCrae’s team did not fair so well. You can find the pictures at http://chriswilliams.smugmug.com/McCrae-Lacrosse/NESLL/Jingle-Bell-Tournament/10714729_44gkf#746315864_A5WUL.
Chase and I had a great time at Colgate. The ride out was fantastic, really nice day. The ride back is another story, clearly winter is here. The Lacrosse was great and Chase played in 6 games. The campus is so amazing. Below are some pictures of a wonderful old barn just off the campus as well as some shots from the games. Check out our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/chrisdiannefamily for some game video Chase playing close defense and some zone.
