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Lak of attack sparks comeback

Parked at the side of the net with the evil orange plastic ball after the Living Legend poked it up through the middle of the court, the Colonel spotted a charging Cowboy Bill out of the corner of his eye. Without even looking he threw it to his streaking linemate, who made no mistake, one-timing it high over Twizzler's sprawled pads to win the game in overtime, 16-14.

But the stage for the extra-time dramatics had been set a couple of shifts earlier, when the Colonel and his mates shut down their nemesis, Lak Attack, who was determined to win the game for his team in one last offensive flurry before he had to leave early.

"That was pivotal," said the Colonel of their defensive achievement as they were down, 14-13. "You knew Lak was going to go hard on that shift; he's the kind of guy who likes to throw the knockout punch, so you know he's going to want to take the ball hard to the net. But we played him kinda close, got in his way."

"He played pretty hard on that final shift," said Velma of Lak Attack's hopeful heroics. "Once we weathered that, we responded pretty good."

That seemed to fire up their foes, said Scooby, whose side had enjoyed the advantage on the scoreboard through most of Sunday's game. "We kinda went for that burst and that turned the tide. We just didn't have enough left in the tank."

In fact, Lak Attack had barely left the court when the Colonel and his mates tied the game. It was a just reward for all their grit and hard work all day, said the irascible veteran. "We were diving, we were lunging, we were hacking and we were whacking. We were doing everything we could to keep the ball out of our net."

Especially Velma, who dove into the crease to stop at least three shots that had gotten past his goalie, Gump.

"It seemed like the right thing to do," said fleet-footed forward. "Gump was down and I'd hope people would do that for me when I'm in net."

"Velma was un-explitive deleted-believable today," said the Colonel. "He was absolutely great at both end of the court."

Indeed, as his mates struggled early on, spotting their opponents a three-goal lead early, Velma was a dynamic dervish in the offensive zone as well, forechecking with fortitude and making extraordinary second and third efforts on the ball to create dangerous scoring opportunities.

"Their forechecking was just killing us today," said Scooby. "You always have to look behind you because you know (Velma) is coming."

"He never gives up," said Colonel. "You've gotta love having him on your team."

"Velma turned it up, and that turned the tide," said Scooby. "Really we should have finished them off."

Posted by jaysuburb at March 14, 2010 08:58 PM