Thursday, May 14, 2009

4/4/2009 Wentworth Institute of Technology @ Amherst College Women

Amherst College 34 - 0 Wentworth Institute of Technology

I was fortunate to have a referee coach watching this game.
I was unfortunate to have taken a knock to my ankle/knee on friday night (swinging tackle trip) with Springfield college.
As such, I looked unstable and took shortcuts. I probably could not have handled a men's game that day, but this was a d2/3 women's game, something I felt ok with despite the ankle/knee.

Fortunately the game was very one sided and it provided me a great opportunity to practice my communication, signals, and positioning.

Now I had an evaluation back in February (Uconn v. Harvard) where I had the concept of 45 degree positioning introduced to me, which I implemented into my game with success that day. Unfortunately since that game my 45 degrees had become less and less....until this day where I was almost right on the last foot of the defence (0 degrees), having to turn my head and look backwards to see what was happening at the breakdown. Something very wrong.

The referee coach that day made this correction for me (thank god). He brought me back to 45.

One interesting point includes a try scored from a ball that bounced back off the goal post in a penalty kick attempt.

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