News for the Week of Nov. 12, 2012

Program Notes for the Week of 11/12/2012:

Over the next few weeks we will recap the past season with awards, stats and other fun facts. This week let's announce our All Greater Cleveland honorees:

All Greater Cleveland Honorable Mention:

Christine Gates (Sr.)

Kailey McClain (Sr.)

Emily O'Connor (Jr.)

Sarah Nasr (Soph.)

Parents are always curious as to the process for selection of post season awards. A quick overview of this process would be as follows: 

Pretty much every organization that offers postseason awards uses a similar method.  The coaches will gather at a formal meeting and will present their nominated players along with season stats for discussion. During the ensuing discussion, the merits of each player are discussed and then a vote is taken to determine the 1st team and 2nd team selections. 

You will only nominate your best players because you need to get the other coaches to agree that "Sally Soccer" is worthy of 1st team or 2nd team status.  The other coaches will let you know that they won't vote for a player who they don't think is worthy.  They know who the better players are from coaching against them over multiple seasons.  So, when a player does get selected for 1st or 2nd team it is a real honor because you are voted in by other coaches who are familiar with the player and recognize the skill level of that player. It is not just your coach forcing his players through.  Of course, the better record a team has, the higher the number of players they can get recognition for.

With honorable mention, the coaches are pretty much allowed to select their own players that they want to recognize.  So that is how it works in a nutshell and these meetings do run for hours as the players are discussed and debated so that it is reasonably assured that the best players are recognized. 


Lorain County All Star Game:
The Lorain County All Star Game will be held this Saturday Nov. 17th at 2:00 p.m. at Midview High School.  Representing the Shoregals will be seniors Christine Gates, Kailey McClain, & Claire Jones.


Season Stats:
Alright - Let's look at some goalie stats this week:

Abby Rogers:

Saves       41
Shutouts  0
Goals Given Up: 18


Amy Crooks:

Saves      50
Shutouts: 2
Goals Given Up:  20


All Time Records:
For a little fun and to satisfy some curiosity, over the next several weeks we will present our all time record against various opponents.

Rocky River 8 wins - 10 losses - 3 ties - This has been a series which always features close well played games.  River has won the last 3 games to push themselves over .500 against us.

Lakewood 7-0-0 - A rarity - a team that we have never lost a game to. We haven't played them in a few years, but there is always a persistent rumor that they are going to join the SWC.  Based on past history, I would say that we would be happy to see that.

Westlake 7-19-0 - Westlake has had a strong program for decades and we have not had much success against them. An oddity is that there has never been a tie in the 26 games of this series.


State Update:
In Division 1, Congratulations to the Perrysburg girls soccer team on winning the Div. 1 State Championship with 1-0 victory over Mason on Friday night. They have been building towards this for a number of years and finally have reached the summit.  By the way, they were undefeated and untied and finished the season at 23-0!  Also, must mention that Maddy Williams of Perrysburg scored 48 goals this year including the game winner in the championship game. That total is mind boggling for a player who plays a high level Division 1 schedule.

In Division 2, Walsh Jesuit captured their 6th state championship with 5-0 blanking of Columbus St. Francis DeSales completing a 21-0-2 season.

Now, would love to see Perrysburg and Walsh Jesuit square off - that would be a great game!


Soccer Site of the Week:
We are featuring various club websites that you can visit to make arrangements for off season training. Tryouts have already begun and almost every club is looking for HS girls to play. This week we will highlight Liberty FC which may be found at:

http://www.libertyfc.org/

A number of our Shoregals play with this club and Coach Daegen was on staff here.  Check them out!


Shoregal Website:
Don't forget to visit our Shoregal website at:

www.alshoregalsoccer.org

There you will find more in depth stats and stories than we can fit on our blog.