Corn field classic 2011

Tully’s Annual Cornfield Classic Lax Invitational.

    Around 40 Lacrosse teams visited the small Central N.Y. town of Tully for their annual Cornfield Classic Lacrosse invitational. Teams traveled from all over New York and other states like Massachusetts, and New Jersey to take part in a wonderful tournament. Showcasing their talent for college recruiters from some of the biggest Lacrosse programs in the nation.

Conner Johnston

    The First games of this ever-growing event kicked off at 8:00 am on ten fields through out The Tully campus. Each team played 10 on 10 with two 25-minute halves. Score was kept for the first half and then the coaches would play their benches through out the rest of the game. This gave everybody a chance to play in front of recruiters from collages like SU, Cornell, Army, Hobart, Penn and other Dl- Dll, Dll schools.

Anthony Contento

    The Homer Trojans first game was the JV squad taking on Victor at 8:00 am on field 1 kicking off the day’s events. The Trojans played a tight game against Victor tying 4-4 at the end of the game. The Trojans JV team played their second game on field 1 as well winning that game 4-2 over Jamesville Dewitt. Dean Riley played a great game with a couple goals helping the Trojans get by JD for their second game of the day.

    Homer’s varsity first game was at 10:00 on field 7 against Watertown IHC for their first game. Both teams started out a little rusty. Neither team could get their offense clicking for the first few minutes of the first half. Watertown would strike first at the 19:00 mark getting one past Homer goal Keeper Jonathon Cottrell giving them a 1-0 lead early in the game. Aaron Zimmerman put Homer on the board after a nice goal from around the right side making it 1-1. As the clock clicked away you could see the rust falling off the players and they started to make good decisions and made some strong shots on goal. IHC put another one in the back of the goal to take the lead 2-1. The Trojans Defense started to look better the more the game went on. Anthony Contentoe made some nice plays for the Trojans getting the ball back and putting his squad in position to score another goal making it 2-2 with 12 minutes left on the running clock. The shooters for Homer seemed to take some quick shots not setting up for a good look on goal. Watertown scored again taking a 3-2 point lead. Aaron Zimmerman tied it up with a rebound shot making it 3-3. The Trojans ended up leading 4-3 at ½ time giving them the win.

    The second ½ was just as exciting as the first with both teams getting some good shots. Dyson Sprouse, and Casey Cleary both scored helping their team on the offensive side. Conner Johnston won some hard fought face-offs in the middle of the field for the Trojans as well, playing a big part in the teams win over IHC.

Josh Maxson

Field 1 was the site of Homer’s JV’s next game against Liverpool. The JV Trojans looked really good in their third game of the day.  This game was all Homer with a slew of goals from a few of their starters on the offensive side of the field. The defense played a solid game as well getting the ball back for their shooters on the other end of the field.

    Coach Cottrell’s Varsity team walked onto field 7 again for their second game against Ironderquoit. This game was pretty ugly from the start for the Trojans. Ironderquoit looked like they have been playing together all year. They scored at will against the usually strong Trojan defense. The Trojans had some good shots on goal, but they just couldn’t find a hole between the pipes to put them on the board until Zimmerman finally made a nice shot to score making it 9-1 Ironderquoit in the first half.  The Trojans fell to far behind in the first half to make a run at them in the second half to even make a game of it.

    In past years homer had good success in Tully, but this year they head into the winter with some work to do before the spring season gets here.

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