Day 4: June 30, 2007
By: Garrett Fitzgerald - colaxgk3@aol.com - (970) 988-7366

Dr. Tom Watts Memorial Boy’s U-19 Division

Division I Championship
Baltimore 11, Arizona 6

In the 35th annual Vail Lacrosse Shootout, the Baltimore Crabs obliterated all doubt as to who was the best team at this tournament. The Crabs made sure that it would be their names on the Dr. Tom Watts memorial trophy with an 11-6 victory that gave them their second consecutive Vail Shootout Championship.

Baltimore scored the first five goals and held Arizona scoreless until there was 1:44 left in the first quarter. With ten seconds left in the quarter Baltimore got their sixth goal of the game, recovered their momentum and never looked back. Baltimore carried their wave of energy into the second quarter and went into halftime with a 9-2 lead.

Arizona started to gain a foothold in the second half, but it was just too little to late. The goalies took center stage in the final two frames. Between the two teams there were 35 shots in the second half and only six of them found the back of the net.

The most impressive part about the Crabs was their depth. Their points came from just about every offensive player. They used two extremely talented offensive middle lines that could attack the opposition’s defense in multiple ways. Even though Arizona was able to win fifteen face-offs on the day, the Baltimore Crabs were just too deep at every position for Arizona to handle.

Saturday’s Results
3rd Place Game
Ohio 9, Colorado 8

5th Place Game
Delaware 16, Idaho 4

7th Place Game
Triad Lacrosse Club 14, Winnipeg 13

Consolation Championship
Indiana 14, Midwest Elite 4
The game was evenly played for the first quarter. In the second period Indiana established control, scoring five unanswered goals. Thereafter, mid-west appeared to be playing with the heads down and never challenged the Indiana squad. Indiana’s goalie made some huge saves that energized his team and carried them on to the consolation championship.

Consolation 3rd Place Game
FLC 9, Sacramento 8
This was an exciting, evenly played game. Neither team wanted to be the only non-win team at the tournament. The game was tied at the end of every quarter even though there were several lead changes. Rice, an attackmen for FLC was dominant, scoring seven of his team’s nine goals. Sacramento could simply do nothing to stop him.
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Girl’s U-19 Division
Saturday’s Results

Field 1
8:30 G9 - L G8 Team Dixie 9 - L G7 Midwest Force 12
9:40 G10 - W G7 Houston Heat 9- W G8 Puget Sound 8
10:50 G11 - L G5 Blue Sky 11 - L G6 PA Express 14

Gold Championship
12:15 G12 - W G5 Heros 3 - W G6 M&D 9

Field 2
8:30 S9 - L S8 Indy Girls 3 - L S7 Utah 10
9:40 S10 - W S7 Team Colorado 3 - W S8 DC Capitols 12
10:50 S11 - L S5 Oregon 2 - L S6 Detroit 9

Silver Championship
12:15 S12 - W S5 FLC 8 - W S6 CTLF 11

Field 3
8:30 B12 - W G11 Desert Divas 4 - L B10 Illinois 8
9:40 B13 - W B7 Colorado Futures 10 - W B10 Midwest Elite 6
10:50 B14 - L B6 Nor-Cal 2 - L B8 Cardinal Elite 17

Bronze Championship
12:15 B15 - W B8 Lakeshore 5 - W B6 Minnesota 10
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Supermasters (ages 40+)

Supermasters Championship
CVLC/Tsunami 12, Elder Statesmen 10

3rd Place Game
Navy Old Goats 14, Tri-City Canadians 9

7th Place Game
Tombstone def, Colorado Lacrosse Club

Consolation Bracket

Championship
Essian/Tap Room 6, Lacrosse.com 5 (2 OT)

All Tournament Team
Attack
Gary Gait – Tri-City Canadians
Kelso Merrill – CVLC/Tsunami
Steve Govett – Tri-City Canadians
Paul Thomas – Magic Wands

Midfield
Bob Zimmerman – Navy Old Goats
Glenn Stephens – Tap Room
Chip Kenyon – Middlebury
#99 – Elder Statesmen

Defense
Dan Pratt- Elder Statesmen
Doug Carl – CVLC/Tsunami
Craig Westling - Middlebury

LSM
Bill Johanson – Tombstone

F/O
Clay Jones – CVLC/Tsunami

Goal
Chuck Leitner – CVLC/Tsunami
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Grand Masters (ages 50+)

Saturday’s Results

Rockies 10, Los Viejos 6
Los Viejos came out firing and grabbing a three goal lead but the Rockies didn’t give up. They fought back and came out with a win, even though they hadn’t won a game so far this tournament.

USA Stars 10, Navy Old Goats 3
The USA stars were able to move the ball with precision reroute to the win. Navy was score less through the first half but fought hard in their last game of the tournament. The got a few goals late but USA Stars cruised to the win
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Masters (ages 33+)

The first day of the Masters tournament really separated the teams. Look for a lot of good competition from the championship bracket.

Saturday’s Results
8:30am MAC 11, Tribe Elders 6
10:30am LacrosseWear 12, Lax Gear 4
12:30pm Middlebury 9, Barely Legal 2
2:30pm Noreaster/Jagermeister 14, MAC 5
4:30pm Rusty Red 21, Landrover 1

Sunday’s Schedule
8:30am MAC vs Barely Legal
10:30am Jail Bait vs LandRover
12:30pm Noreaster vs Middlebury
2:30pm Rusty Red vs LacrosseWear
4:30pm Lax Gear vs Tribe Elders