2008 Woodie Awards
The Sports Guy; Return of the Great One
Jose Ortiz
Issue date: 3/25/04 Section: Opinion
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Hey there sportlings! The Sports Guy is back from his journey for oneness with the sport's gods. Marciano, Thorpe, Ruth, you know the names. The Sports Guy chi has been a bit out of whack and he needed to find himself amidst the rubble. But, it's been a wicked two weeks we've had here.
If you told The Sports Guy that the Red Hawk women's lacrosse team would only have one loss with five games left to play, he would have slapped you silly and made you say 1,000 Hail Mary's. But the numbers don't lie and the girls are on the way to their first winning season since 2001 and only their fourth since the program began in 1980.
The Sports Guy says that they aren't only winning they are demolishing everything and everyone in sight like a bunch of little Tazmanian Devils. This, however, is certainly no cartoon.
Averaging almost 15 scores per game, these girls are beating their opponents by almost 13. The Sports Guy can't decide who's better, the defense or the offense. On the one hand you have Cathy Homiek who is leading the nation in total assists and assists per game. To top it off, their scoring offense is third in the country. They have 11 players with at least one goal and at least five with more than 10. The freshmen girls are scoring points like their shooting into a swimming pool. Brianna Gillin, Brocklebank, Ann Daily and Nicole LaRocca round out the "Freshmen Foursome" who have scored 95 of the team's 133 goals this year. To put it plainly, with Homiek dishing the passes, and the "Foursome" finishing them, you may as well call the opposing team's coaches and tell them to leave their goalkeeper in the locker room so she doesn't get embarrassed.
The Sports Guy says their "D" is nothing to sleep on either. Kristen Kuhmann has the lowest goals against average in the country with a 3.94 average, and she's just a freshman. Does The Sports Guy smell another Red Hawk dynasty being born?
When The Sports Guy last left the sportlings, the men's lacrosse team was undefeated at 6-0. Since then The Sports Guy says that the team has been slumping...Kennedy style.
If you told The Sports Guy that the Red Hawk women's lacrosse team would only have one loss with five games left to play, he would have slapped you silly and made you say 1,000 Hail Mary's. But the numbers don't lie and the girls are on the way to their first winning season since 2001 and only their fourth since the program began in 1980.
The Sports Guy says that they aren't only winning they are demolishing everything and everyone in sight like a bunch of little Tazmanian Devils. This, however, is certainly no cartoon.
Averaging almost 15 scores per game, these girls are beating their opponents by almost 13. The Sports Guy can't decide who's better, the defense or the offense. On the one hand you have Cathy Homiek who is leading the nation in total assists and assists per game. To top it off, their scoring offense is third in the country. They have 11 players with at least one goal and at least five with more than 10. The freshmen girls are scoring points like their shooting into a swimming pool. Brianna Gillin, Brocklebank, Ann Daily and Nicole LaRocca round out the "Freshmen Foursome" who have scored 95 of the team's 133 goals this year. To put it plainly, with Homiek dishing the passes, and the "Foursome" finishing them, you may as well call the opposing team's coaches and tell them to leave their goalkeeper in the locker room so she doesn't get embarrassed.
The Sports Guy says their "D" is nothing to sleep on either. Kristen Kuhmann has the lowest goals against average in the country with a 3.94 average, and she's just a freshman. Does The Sports Guy smell another Red Hawk dynasty being born?
When The Sports Guy last left the sportlings, the men's lacrosse team was undefeated at 6-0. Since then The Sports Guy says that the team has been slumping...Kennedy style.