Golden Jets Senior Men Win Michigan State Tourney
The Golden Jets sent a senior men's team comprised completely of University of Toronto players to play in a college invitational at Michigan State this past weekend.
Coach Vlad Tasevski took 11 players to get another 4 games after their initial tournament a week earlier in Pennsylvania: Trevor Robinson, Luke Spooner, Alan Chung, Brook Ruffo, Tanner Regan, Paulo Ruiz, Julian Filice, Ian Weir, Michael Chapman, Milos Radojcic and Dan Pyette. With only 3 days of practice under their belts and missing several players, the UofT-filled roster lost all 4 of its games against Bucknell, Brown, St. Francis and Queen's. However, the team did get better with each game and also had to adjust to playing in a 30m pool with little to no conditioning.
However. this past weekend was far different as the squad went undefeated through its four contests to win the tournament.
The Jets/UT team opened with easy victories on Saturday over the University of Illinois
(13-4) and the University of Iowa (18-6). This was very important as all players got to play meaningful minutes spreading out the workload before the semi-final match also to be played on Saturday.
That meant three games in 8 hours.
The Jets/UT semi-final opponent was Notre Dame College.
The team played with discipline and ground out a 8-4 win to move on to the gold medal match on Sunday morning against the host Michigan State team.
The final proved to be a challenge for the Jets/UT men. The team fell behind early 0-2 but clawed back to win 5-3 and take home the championship title.
With the wins, the team evened its record at 4-4 for the season. Coach Tasevski was pleased with the team's performance noting that "they are improving".
Up next for the Jets/UT Blues in October is a trip to Chicago, the Ontario Water Polo Festival tournament in Toronto along with home and home games with McMaster and York. Hopefully freshman Marko Brasic, out with a shoulder injury suffered just before school started, will make his debut and help strengthen the squad.
Coach Vlad Tasevski took 11 players to get another 4 games after their initial tournament a week earlier in Pennsylvania: Trevor Robinson, Luke Spooner, Alan Chung, Brook Ruffo, Tanner Regan, Paulo Ruiz, Julian Filice, Ian Weir, Michael Chapman, Milos Radojcic and Dan Pyette. With only 3 days of practice under their belts and missing several players, the UofT-filled roster lost all 4 of its games against Bucknell, Brown, St. Francis and Queen's. However, the team did get better with each game and also had to adjust to playing in a 30m pool with little to no conditioning.
However. this past weekend was far different as the squad went undefeated through its four contests to win the tournament.
The Jets/UT team opened with easy victories on Saturday over the University of Illinois
(13-4) and the University of Iowa (18-6). This was very important as all players got to play meaningful minutes spreading out the workload before the semi-final match also to be played on Saturday.
That meant three games in 8 hours.
The Jets/UT semi-final opponent was Notre Dame College.
The team played with discipline and ground out a 8-4 win to move on to the gold medal match on Sunday morning against the host Michigan State team.
The final proved to be a challenge for the Jets/UT men. The team fell behind early 0-2 but clawed back to win 5-3 and take home the championship title.
With the wins, the team evened its record at 4-4 for the season. Coach Tasevski was pleased with the team's performance noting that "they are improving".
Up next for the Jets/UT Blues in October is a trip to Chicago, the Ontario Water Polo Festival tournament in Toronto along with home and home games with McMaster and York. Hopefully freshman Marko Brasic, out with a shoulder injury suffered just before school started, will make his debut and help strengthen the squad.
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