RFA “Little” Lady Black Knights Modified Lacrosse News

June 13, 2005 – The following modified players were honored and recognized with special awards at the players year-end banquet held at Staley’s cafeteria: Merideth Stuart - Most Valuable Offense, Leigh Nicholas - Most Valuable Defense, Mariah Mandigo - Most Improved 7th grader, Carissa Thompson –

Most Improved 8th grader, Angela Marcoccia – Awarded a lacrosse stick for the Fairest Player,

Alex Towne and Katie Cole - Queens of McDonalds, Victoria Ceravolo - Tiara and Wand for Miss Congeniality, Victoria Ceravolo – Hardest worker 8th grade, Brittany Bruce - Hardest worker 7th grade

and Merideth Stuart - Most Valuable Player.

On Tuesday (May 10^th), modified goalie Katie Cole tied the varsity record for having 23 saves in goal in the F.M.-Eagle Hill game (Rome won 8-5). While we recognize that modified stats are different than varsity stats, this is still a note-worthy accomplishment! Katie has our congratulations, way to go Katie!!!

Modified Game Results

June 2, 2005–Gillette is not too kind (in more ways than one) to the visiting Romans, as they win (8–4)

Great season girls...they all had an awesome night and kept their heads in the game, when being pushed around a little bit by our opponents. Way to play fair girls!!! We are very proud of this season and know the girls will continue on in their winning ways both on and off the field!!!

See you at the banquet!! - Coach Bledsoe

May 31, 2005 - It’s another one for the home team as Rome beats visiting East Syracuse-Minoa (10 – 4)

Another year is coming to an end with our last home game... All our 8th graders finished the last few minutes of a winning game. We are proud of our two year veteran 8th graders - Michelle Baker, Katie Cole, Victoria Ceravolo, Jessica Harvey, Kelsey Lovett, Angela Marcoccia, Leigh Nicholas, Merideth Stuart, Alex Towne and much thanks to our first year 8th graders - Shannon Farrell, Justina Henderson, Kristen Sharpe and Carissa Thompson. Way to go girls, great season so far. One more game to call it a season and we plan on doing our best on Thursday!!! Join us as we play

C-NS in Syracuse. (Don't ask me how to get there, I never know-Ha ha!) Great game to all our girls!!! - Coach Bledsoe 

May 26, 2005 – Bees sting Knights, but not by much! (B’ville 10 – RFA 8)

What a game against B'Ville. We started the game slow at first. Both teams were slow to score, then we all started scoring over and over. At one point Rome was up 5-1 against B'ville. It was very exciting. We passed around, our defense was awesome they kept the other team outside the fan as much as possible. Merideth was jumping like a lemur in the middle, way to go Merideth!!! Kelsey Lovett, Leigh Nicholas and Michelle Baker were a force to be reckoned with down on defense. Way to go girls!!! Alex Towne picked up the pace, since Katie could not be at the game. Playing the whole 50 minutes and making some awesome runs down the field. The running scared us,

but boy were we proud (ha, ha)!!! Good job girls! - Coach Bledsoe  

May 24,2005 – Little Lady Knights go for the tie against host Wellwood Middle School (RFA 11- F-M 11)

Another great game for the little lady knights. We exchanged goals all night long. What an even game. We were

ahead by two goals with three minutes left and they were able to sneak by us and score two more times.

Defense was a biggie for us tonight. Kristen Sharpe stepped up and made a big catch tonight!! Way to go Kristen! Carissa Thompson made her first goal and that was very exciting!!!  Team work was what we were all about

tonight at Wellwood. Way to go girls! If we did not have all the 24 saves from our goalies, we would have been

in bad shape tonight…way to go Alex and Katie...Next game Thursday, B'Ville bring it on-ha ha!!! - Coach Bledsoe

May 19, 2005 – Little Lady Knights win on the road at Clary Middle School (RFA 11 – Clary 7)

Tonight’s game was an example of working together passing and shooting and working the ball around the field. Erin Thomas had an awesome game of passing off the ball with 6 assists!!! Way to go Erin Thomas! Erica Foley and Angela Marcoccia jumped in the center to add some excitement to the game. Katie Cole had her first goal this year...Ooops

what team is she on anyway ha ha. If we can't laugh at ourselves who can we laugh at ? Michelle Baker has been on the hunt for her first goal...wait isn't she on defense? What’s up with that ha ha...Brittany Bruce had some hustles to the ball…way to RUN Brittany! Good job tonight girls!!! - Coach Bledsoe 

May 17, 2005 – West Genny Wildcats had a tough battle against the Little Lady Knights (W.G. 9 – RFA 5)

This was an awesome game the girls really showed that they can run with the big dogs. We could not score in the first half, but we told the team that if West Genny could score 5 times against us in the first half we could do the same thing. We knew once we scored, we could do it again!!! Now we wish we had set our sights on 10 goals, not just 5 (ha-ha). Everyone had a great game against a very tough team. Our goalies had 14 saves which were potentially  more goals... good job goalies!!  An open net goal from almost half way down the field was another sign of some great lacrosse.  Who thought of the off sides rule anyway???  Defense was great, even Baker almost scored on a run from the other end - way to go Baker! – Coach Bledsoe

May 12, 2005 – The Little Lady Knights win against visiting Liverpool (10 – 5)

Outstanding game. Defense was tight as usual !!! Michelle Baker had some fine runs to the other end of the field. Leigh Nicholas helped out in front of the goal more then once. Tonight, Jennifer Kean got a few groundballs to send it to the other end for our team. Carissa Thompson made some nice moves in the game tonight. She is quick on her feet and was real key at the wing. Good game tonight !!! - Coach Bledsoe

May 3, 2005 – Rome wins on the road against Fulton (12 – 10)

Tonight was a showing of team work we finally nailed a wonderful play....We set up, we threw the ball, we SCORED!!!! Hooooooorrrrrraaaayyyy for team work. I am sooo proud of our modified girls, this is what it is all about for a coach.

Tonight Brittany Bruce ran fast to pick up a bunch of overthrown shots, she made a real difference for us on offense. Merideth Stuart set a freaky pick tonight (is this lacrosse or basketball…ha ha). Kelsey and Leigh were the dynamic duo down on defense. Katie way to go on the saves tonight, Alex was very proud of you !!! Great game, keep up the good work!!! - Coach Bledsoe

April 29, 2005 - Rome falls to host Jamesville-Dewitt (17 – 7)

Our first loss was not fun but we were able to walk away with our heads up. When we face the tough teams in Syracuse, we are thrilled to even score against some of the teams that have been playing together for years!! They are teams we watch and work hard to try to beat. Our girls scored 3 times in the last 1 minute and 40 seconds of the

game!!! We played tough defense and learned how to work as a team again and again!! Next game Tuesday, watch

us grow !!! - Coach Bledsoe and Coach Pfendler

April 26, 2005 – It’s two in a row for the Little Lady Knights – Rome beats visiting Central Square (9-4)

Tonight’s game was another display of teamwork. At first we were playing as though we just came back from Spring Break but then all of a sudden we remembered how to catch the ball and where to run. I love to see the newer girls on the team being passed to and having the others depend on them. Pressure at its finest. Leigh Nicholas came up with some awesome defensive saves so did Kelsey Lovett and Michelle Baker . Michelle ran more tonight then ever in practice (ha-ha). I never imagined when I told Shannon Farrell to stick to her girl like glue she would take me seriously and knock her player over within minutes of starting the game. Next time remember Shannon, I meant figuratively stick to your girl, let her run at least. Good work girls way to go defense... way to go offense!!! 10 more games to go. Lets keep up the good work !! Coach Bledsoe   

April 15,2005 – Rome Wins their home opener over visiting Oswego (8-4)

What an outstanding game for our young Lady Knights! I would love to mention everyone’s name since we played soooooo well as a team for our first game. It was awesome. I wanted to mention that Leigh Nicholas and Michelle Baker had some great saves back on defense. Angela Marccocia had a great game on the wing as attack. What a great game ALL of our seventh graders had since some of them had never even picked up a stick before . We had two new 8th graders playing that gave us some great runs, saves and as one of them said “Only 3 covers over the ball…ha-ha”. With just two and a half weeks of practice, we really looked like a team that knew what they were doing. I attribute that to working on and off season, in the winter and in the summer. If we want to get better, we need to keep our girls with a stick in their hands as much as possible. Good Job Little Lady Knights! - Coach Bledsoe and Coach Pfendler