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BD
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On a Roll

Nice win in front of the Cannon's faithful last night on the Deuce. It's great when you get multiple guys on the scoreboard, 50% from your FO specialist & 19 saves from your goalie. We still have a lot of work to do but as I said before we're heading in the right direction.

Big one next weekend @ Denver for the 4th of July. They usually get between 15-20,000 fans for the game and then the fireworks show. Should be a great game! I'm looking forward to being out there for the 4th although I will miss not being at the Hingham 4th of July parade with my family!

Headed down to the Cape right now for a little R&R and QT with the family that is long overdue!

BD
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Thursday Night Lights

Going to be a great game tomorrow. No better way to welcome the warm weather then to check out the Cannon's at Harvard. The team is ready and should be fun. Time for us to go on a run.

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A shout out to my boy Henry........... he will be missed.
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2010 K18's

Just got a pair of white K18's from my boy Chris Moreau from STX, these gloves are SWEET! Comfortable, great new palm (I usually cut my palm out but not this time) and they look HOT!

Check back soon, I'll post some pics.

BD
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Keep it Rolling.......

My bad for not getting on my blog right after our 2nd consecutive win down in Annapolis on Friday night (I already got reprimanded by my producer). Anyways, another solid effort by the boyz. I was really stoked with the way we took control of the game and didn't look back for the majority of the 2nd half. We are starting to play better on both ends of the field and most importantly we're getting more consistent with our play which in this league is very important. Offensively we once again put the lotion in the basket (as Millmix likes to say), in other words we're scoring goals, lots of them. We also got stingy on the defensive end of the field and held them to single digits. That's huge because at the end of the season, other then head to match ups; goals for and goals against count towards seeing who may advance into the postseason if records are even.

THURSDAY NIGHT - ESPN2 LIVE vs. The Toronto Nationals. If you don't live in Boston then you can watch it on the tube. IF YOU DO LIVE IN BOSTON, I EXPECT YOU TO BE IN THE STANDS!! The London weather (from my wife Alison) will be gone by Thursday, they're even saying the sun will peak out. This is going to be a great lacrosse game, so come on out to Harvard and get LOUD!

Toronto is a very talented team coming off of a loss at Denver, so they will be hungry for a win. We need to keep the momentum going to put ourselves one game out of 1st place. Like I tell the squad, we have a great opportunity; we can't let it pass by. That's what this is all about, it's about playing together, playing for each other but most importantly seizing the opportunities to become a better team and WIN!

Father's day was great, got to spend time (although it was a monsoon out) w/my three girls; my wife and my two daughters. It's a tough time of the year with all the traveling I do for the MLL so anytime I can spend QT with the family is great. I even got a little one on one time with my wife Alison last night as we snuck out for dinner at the Scarlet Oak here in town. It's always great to catch up and just have our time! I had the pulled pork and I must say it doesn't even come close to my recipe.....need to hook it up soon!

Hope to see you....I mean hear you on Thursday night!

BD

Annapolis

Annapolis Maryland is a great town. We're at the Marriott right on the water here in Annapolis as we get ready for Washington in about 3 hours. I love this town; so much to do...did I mention it's right on the water??? Seriously though, great little shops and restaurants (as well as bars but that's for post game) here in Annapolis. We had a team meal at the Turner's place as they live right around the corner from the Hotel. Great chicken Parm by Mrs. & Mr. Turner as they were gracious enough to host our pregame meal.

I say this all the time but tonight is a big game for several reasons. We have the opportunity to make up some ground in the conference and get to 3-3 which is huge at the mid point of the season. We also need to come out and execute the way we played last week at home vs. Chicago. If we can replicate that performance I honestly believe there are few teams that can play with us.

It's hot out and we're getting ready to take off in 25 minutes to head over to Navy and get ready for this battle. Should be a good one, no doubt it's an important one.

Time to see if my team has grown a little bit......

BD

Moving in the right direction.....

Last night was as close as we've come to playing 60 minutes of lacrosse and boy was it fun to watch. We have so much talent on the Cannons that when everyone just flat out plays we are a hard team to beat. We were clicking on both ends of the field last night and as a coach it's something you like to see, especially at this crucial point in our season. By no means are we hitting our stride yet, we still have a lot to clean up but we're definitely heading in the right direction. It was nice to see Shooter (Matt Poskay) back in the line up. As usual he found the net mutliple times. We are finally back at full strength with our personnel; it makes it hard in terms of determining who is going to dress (because of the talent pool) but honeslty that's a problem I don't mind having. At Washington on Friday, gonna be good one.

I got a chance to spend some time with the family today as we shot out to the MBYLL Jamboree at Fort Devens for a couple of hours. Lots of lacrosse being played this weekend and next as over 5,000 people are out at this event each weekend. Lax Unlimited is the retail vendor and we were slammed these past two days but it was fun. Make sure you pop into the LU tent, great deals on some really cool stuff.

BD

Big One!!!!!

Sitting here at 7:00 in the morning finishing up the scouting report for Chicago, BIG GAME TONIGHT!! Three teams at 3-1 and three teams at 1-3; if the season were to end today we would be in 4th place and would qualify for the playoffs. That's why tonight's game is so huge as we need to control the tie breakers with a team that is behind us in the standings. Chicago is a very talented team that is capable of putting a lot of G's up on the scoreboard. We need to come out of the gate and control the game from the opening whistle. We had a very good practice last night, offense was clicking. We welcomed back Matt "Shooter" Poskay as he's been inactive for the past 4 weeks, it will be nice to get him out there tonight for sure. He looks like he hasn't missed a beat as he was filling up the nets. We also had a few of the rookies at practice last night; Jordan Burke and Jake Beebe made their debuts for us. Jordan looked good until the shooting drill, I think he got a taste of the MLL and how good these guys really are. He will be a good MLL goalie though, he's mentally tough and has a great attitude. Two things you definitely need to be a successful MLL goalie. We'll have more of an offensive look tonight so we should put some big numbers up on the scoreboard if we execute.

12 hours to go, should be a good day and I'm pretty confident it will be a good night!

BD

Camp

Whazzup! I've been at the Lax-School Lacrosse Camp @ the Fessenden school this whole week, two days left....can't believe how fast time has gone by this week. We have a lot great kids at camp from ages 6-15, mostly from private schools in the area (since public school is still open!). These kids are good kids who are all striving to be better lacrosse players. I have a couple of "mini mites" as I like to call them who are tearing it up! These guys barely come up to my waist! But they are soaking up information like sponges AND every day they have gone home and worked on what we taught during the day. When a kid tells me that, I LOVE IT!!!!!

You can't become a BALLER, unless you WORK HARD.

BD

Rain.....

Sitting on the bus as we just got onto Long Island. Early rise this morning to catch the 6:30 bus for our game vs. the Lizards tonight. I wish I would have looked at the weather report before hand so I could have packed a little better......can you say rain? All day, all night...... Big game for us tonight, as you say in Professional sports....this is a MUST win. To keep us in the pack and create a little separation from Washington (who lost last night) we would get to 2-2 with the victory tonight. When you have 6 teams in the league and see 2 of those teams 3 times, victories early in the season are key. I strongly believe the boys are ready, we had a nice taste of what the this team is like when we execute for 3+ quarters as we did in Chicago last weekend. Now we need to do it for a full 60 minutes and not give up a 9 goal lead!! Our goal each week is simple; let's be better then the week before. We'll see how it shakes down.

BD