Chelsea lacrosse faced the Ypsilanti Braves. The Ypsilanti school board would say they faced the Ypsilanti Phoenix, but nearly everybody else would just ignore the Ypsilanti school board and say they faced the Ypsilanti Braves.
I sure hope the name Bulldogs doesn’t become controversial one day.
Chelsea lacrosse faced Lincoln.
Just as FYI for all you aspiring lacrosse players…this is not where you want the ball:
Some of Lincoln’s helmets have seen better days:
Chelsea lacrosse faced Romulus. In the interest of full disclosure: I’ve held a grudge against anything from Romulus ever since I got a speeding ticket from that absurd speed trap on Eureka Road south of the airport. So…yeah, I was happy to watch Chelsea beat Romulus.
Chelsea lacrosse faced Saline.
In the middle of the game a Saline player had a Chelsea player lined up for a good solid hit…until the Chelsea player slipped on the wet turf. Because of that, the hit didn’t go quite as planned. Here, take a look:
He did jar the ball loose, so I suppose the hit served its purpose. But I doubt that’s how he envisioned the hit in his mind.
The early spring sports season continued with lacrosse — one of my newer favorite sports — in Dexter.
The Dexter boys faced Belleville:
Notice the placement of the Belleville stick in the next two photos…
…and insert the Urkel “Did I do thaaaat?” catchphrase here.
The Dexter lacrosse program is pretty good, while the Belleville lacrosse program is…uh…decidedly not pretty good. The Belleville goalie was fiercely competitive, so the frequent and abundant Dexter goals served to make him more and more frustrated as the game wore on. Eventually, with the score badly lopsided and a Dexter player running in on a breakaway, the goalie found a way to take out his frustration…by leveling the Dexter player on the breakaway.
The Dexter player still scored — he managed to shoot the ball before the goalie reached him — but he certainly paid for the goal.
At the same time, the Dexter girls lacrosse team was playing Salem.
(As an aside: who decided the Rocks mascot should go to Salem? As a mascot, it makes sense only when attached to Plymouth. The Plymouth Rocks is a great name. The Salem Rocks? That makes no sense.)
Thursday: Soccer
Chelsea played East Lansing to a 2-2 draw.
Saturday: Lacrosse
Prior to Saturday, the full extent of my experience with the sport of lacrosse consisted of watching five minutes of a professional lacrosse match on tv several years ago. But I found the sport to be a lot of fun to watch — a good mix of hockey, soccer and football — and easy to follow even without knowing all the rules, and I enjoyed watching Chelsea defeat Belleville, Q to 12.
(All Calvinball jokes aside, it truly was easy to follow, and Chelsea really did defeat Belleville; the score was 12-1.)
