2nd Annual O'Hara Invite - Open Division
The O'Hara Invite was originally slated to be a Mixed tournament, and early in April. The tournament was switched to the weekend after the Junior Prom, and being that most of the Girls team are juniors, the open division took shape. In attendance, aside from O'Hara, were Lower Merion, Cheltenham, Masterman, Methacton, Lancaster Country Day School, North Penn, and a new team, Germantown Academy.
Germantown Academy
The first game of the tournament for #1 seeded O'Hara was the brand new GA, sporting some pretty slick Breakmark jerseys. GA jumped out to a 1 - 0 lead, but after that, it was all O'Hara. It was helpful that earlier in the week, The Haverford School came in, and GA played a similiar style, no real offense, just lots of hucks. Once the mark took away the huck and Squared, Sleeves and Blattner started to dominate the long throws, O'Hara rolled, 13 - 4. The biggest dark spot of the entire day happened fairly early in this game. Brett, on a huge layout for a score, missed the disc off his fingers, but severely hurt his shoulder. We won't know the full extent for a few days, but early X-Rays were negative, so we are hopeful to not lose him for an extended period of time.
Cheltenham
O'Hara has made a habit of jumping out to a big lead, then giving up a huge lead to Cheltenham. Playing on our home field, we hoped to reverse the trend. Once again, O'Hara jumped out to a decent lead, and took half 7 - 4, there was some disagreement as to the score, with O'Hara thinking we had 8, and Chelt thinking we had 7. In the end, Katz and Henkel agreed that we had 7, and the second half began. Chelt started one of their comebacks, and O'Hara began to fall apart. Eventually the score was tied up 8 - 8, when O'Hara took a timeout to regroup. The team had become frantic on offense, trying to force throws, then not getting back on D. The team mantra became, "Hard nose D, Chilly O." After the timeout, O'Hara ran off 3 quick scores, forcing Chelt to take a TO. After the TO, O'Hara finished off the game, with Chelt only grabbing one more score, 13 - 9. The end of game lineup was a first, instead of handshakes, both teams, traded hugs showing the camraderie between the teams. O'Hara finished the game well in advance of the time cap, and had some time to wait for the winner of the Lower Merion, Masterman game.
Masterman
Unexpectedly, Masteman put down LM 13 - 9, setting up the first matchup of Masterman and O'Hara this year. Masterman has a number of coaches working with them, and they are a growing team, sure to be dangerous in the next few years, today however, belonged to O'Hara. The team jumped out and never looked back, eventually winning 13 - 9, in a highly spirited affair, and again, ending in a hug line.
Overall the team played well, but does have some things to work on, holding a force, downfield D, and active cuts to name a few. The team did respond to adversity, held together, and put down a challenge. It should be clear that O'Hara is a legitimate City Championship contender.
Germantown Academy
The first game of the tournament for #1 seeded O'Hara was the brand new GA, sporting some pretty slick Breakmark jerseys. GA jumped out to a 1 - 0 lead, but after that, it was all O'Hara. It was helpful that earlier in the week, The Haverford School came in, and GA played a similiar style, no real offense, just lots of hucks. Once the mark took away the huck and Squared, Sleeves and Blattner started to dominate the long throws, O'Hara rolled, 13 - 4. The biggest dark spot of the entire day happened fairly early in this game. Brett, on a huge layout for a score, missed the disc off his fingers, but severely hurt his shoulder. We won't know the full extent for a few days, but early X-Rays were negative, so we are hopeful to not lose him for an extended period of time.
Cheltenham
O'Hara has made a habit of jumping out to a big lead, then giving up a huge lead to Cheltenham. Playing on our home field, we hoped to reverse the trend. Once again, O'Hara jumped out to a decent lead, and took half 7 - 4, there was some disagreement as to the score, with O'Hara thinking we had 8, and Chelt thinking we had 7. In the end, Katz and Henkel agreed that we had 7, and the second half began. Chelt started one of their comebacks, and O'Hara began to fall apart. Eventually the score was tied up 8 - 8, when O'Hara took a timeout to regroup. The team had become frantic on offense, trying to force throws, then not getting back on D. The team mantra became, "Hard nose D, Chilly O." After the timeout, O'Hara ran off 3 quick scores, forcing Chelt to take a TO. After the TO, O'Hara finished off the game, with Chelt only grabbing one more score, 13 - 9. The end of game lineup was a first, instead of handshakes, both teams, traded hugs showing the camraderie between the teams. O'Hara finished the game well in advance of the time cap, and had some time to wait for the winner of the Lower Merion, Masterman game.
Masterman
Unexpectedly, Masteman put down LM 13 - 9, setting up the first matchup of Masterman and O'Hara this year. Masterman has a number of coaches working with them, and they are a growing team, sure to be dangerous in the next few years, today however, belonged to O'Hara. The team jumped out and never looked back, eventually winning 13 - 9, in a highly spirited affair, and again, ending in a hug line.
Overall the team played well, but does have some things to work on, holding a force, downfield D, and active cuts to name a few. The team did respond to adversity, held together, and put down a challenge. It should be clear that O'Hara is a legitimate City Championship contender.
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