RYE – Field Hockey New York

The Monday following the superbowl always leaves people feeling a little worse for wear. Rye’s indoor players will be feeling rather more tired and hungover than most after a couple of nights on the town in Boston and 5 games of indoor hockey. The tournament, hosted by the Boston Minutemen at MIT in Cambridge MA, provided a great tune up for Rye FHC ahead of the upcoming Big Apple International Indoor Tournament at the end of February.

The weekend started well with the team taking in plenty of Boston culture but spending 7 or 8 hours in the ‘Cheers’ bar and sampling as many different variations of Sam Adams as were available. Lennart Cherifi, the teams German defender, quickly dispelled the myth that Germans were good drinkers by doing a number on himself very early in proceedings to the extent that we nearly persuaded him to sing ‘Neun und Neunzig luftbaloon’ in an empty karaoke bar. Lucky for him the team became distracted slating Matt Hogbens bright yellow and orange shirt…yes Matt…I’m sure it looked great in Java when you bought it…

Rye began the tournament with huge success…getting all of their players to the facility at 9 am on the Sunday morning. Surely, the hard part was done. Running for 5 games with no subs did prove somewhat difficult for both Rye teams but in general Rye will be pleased with their final warm up competition. Rye Pirates won all 5 of their games and the Buccaneers won 3 of 5 with the two losses both being closely fought.

The weekend was great fun and no doubt people are already looking at their calendars for the next time they can use hockey as an excuse to hit the beers in Boston.