New Junior Jets Debut in Rochester
The Junior Golden Jets with several new members, traveled to Rochester last weekend for the season opening tournament.
Coach Zoran Petrovic gave a broad invitation to players to attend the tournament and get the kinks out from the end of summer inactivity. In all, 17 players responded enthusiastically to attend: Nikola G., Clem, Clay, Benson, Marko D., Marko V., Pavle, Dima, Cosmin, Vule, Stephen, Alex H-M, Alex B., Ronnie, Ognjen, Roland and Boris.
Zoran rolled various 6-man rotations throughout the tournament to give all players playing time and let the players start to feel at home playing with all their new teammates.
While the field players got the rust out and had to adjust to new line combinations throughout the weekend, goalie Nikola played steadily and made several excellent saves.
In the first contest, the Junior Jets were in tough against a far more experienced and far bigger senior club team from Adirondack. The opposing center forward was 6'6" and 230 lbs! Nevertheless, the Junior Jets fought hard before succumbing 5-15. The second game on Saturday was against another experienced senior men's club from Rochester and the team surprised with a tight performance tying 9-9 throughout three quarters before succumbing at the end.
On Sunday, the Junior Jets had the two easier teams to play and easily outclassed the University of Rochester 15-5 and Binghamton University 15-10.
Zoran also chose to hold a one hour practice after the first game on each day so that the players could continue their systems work. All in all, a full weekend of games and practice PLUS a monstrous buffet dinner on Saturday night!!
The club wishes to thank Kent Chung and Ljupco Hadzi-Manov for volunteering as drivers for the weekend.
Up next for the Junior Jets will be a 14-team men's college tournament in Ohio...
Coach Zoran Petrovic gave a broad invitation to players to attend the tournament and get the kinks out from the end of summer inactivity. In all, 17 players responded enthusiastically to attend: Nikola G., Clem, Clay, Benson, Marko D., Marko V., Pavle, Dima, Cosmin, Vule, Stephen, Alex H-M, Alex B., Ronnie, Ognjen, Roland and Boris.
Zoran rolled various 6-man rotations throughout the tournament to give all players playing time and let the players start to feel at home playing with all their new teammates.
While the field players got the rust out and had to adjust to new line combinations throughout the weekend, goalie Nikola played steadily and made several excellent saves.
In the first contest, the Junior Jets were in tough against a far more experienced and far bigger senior club team from Adirondack. The opposing center forward was 6'6" and 230 lbs! Nevertheless, the Junior Jets fought hard before succumbing 5-15. The second game on Saturday was against another experienced senior men's club from Rochester and the team surprised with a tight performance tying 9-9 throughout three quarters before succumbing at the end.
On Sunday, the Junior Jets had the two easier teams to play and easily outclassed the University of Rochester 15-5 and Binghamton University 15-10.
Zoran also chose to hold a one hour practice after the first game on each day so that the players could continue their systems work. All in all, a full weekend of games and practice PLUS a monstrous buffet dinner on Saturday night!!
The club wishes to thank Kent Chung and Ljupco Hadzi-Manov for volunteering as drivers for the weekend.
Up next for the Junior Jets will be a 14-team men's college tournament in Ohio...
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