Photo Credit: Dan Burns
It was another successful season for the Brunswick Lacrosse program. The team once again traveled to Florida for our pre-season Royal Palms tournament in March. This year the tournament proved to be very important, as we gained confidence by once again topping Kent Denver, a strong team and the eventual tournament champs. In our third season since joining the Western New England Division I league, we had a hard-fought record of 8 wins and 8 losses. We had strong league wins over Avon, Taft, Kent, Northfield Mt. Hermon, and Loomis, and suffered tough 1 or 2-goal league losses to Hotchkiss, Trinity Pawling, Choate, and Westminster. It was a competitive league in a year where three teams stood alone at the top—Trinity Pawling, Deerfield, and Salisbury—while every other team fought it out for the 4th seed. At the same time, out-of-league our schedule did not let up. Overall, we faced six teams—Kent Denver (pre-season), Deerfield, Trinity Pawling, Greenwich HS, Lawrenceville, and Haverford—who at one point in their season were ranked in the top 20 nationally. To say that we had a challenging season is an understatement. However, ’Wick lacrosse rose to the challenge. We practiced as if we were making a run through playoffs to the very last day in May, and it paid off as this team was rewarded with one of the biggest wins in our program’s history. The 2008 team saved their best game for last. Inspired by Captains Drew Tunney and Tommy Hoyos, and Seniors Michael Allwin, Phil Cutler, Tucker Daugherty, Alex Dickson, Corey Dobbs, Bryce Fitzpatrick, Chris Ghaffari, Tom Hotchkiss, Andrew Laird, Oscar Loynaz, John Eric Oberbeck, Nick Philip, Zach Prager, and Will Reed …on a rainy, cold night in May… taking the field after our alumni battled it out in their annual game… the 2008 team topped a strong, nationally recognized Haverford and made this program, our School, and our league proud. It was a tremendous way to end our season! The outstanding play of next year’s Captains Peter Castine, Billy Chapman, and Charlie Payton should reassure all fans that the 2009 team will be exciting to watch.
Photo Credit: Dan Burns
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Summer 2008
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