Katie

The night Katie has been dreading for the past week is finally here with Enloe's trip back to the Athens Drive stadium to meet Cardinal Gibbons and not just because Cardinal Gibbons fields a side that could probably beat a fair heap of professional and college teams. Enloe's starting lineup would be a wee bit different tonight with Miss Delani's goalie jersey being occupied by someone a fair bit shorter. Tonight was Katie's debut in…

Whoever said "getting there was half the fun" clearly never tried to find their way to the car park near the Broughton HS stadium near downtown Raleigh. To get close to it from St Mary's, you've got to cut through a car park and essentially an alley behind the rather imposing (but gorgeous architecture!) of the main building. A couple of laps round the campus and we eventually sorted it out and still ended up…

The Lady Eagles take their home fixture on the road to the Athens Drive super-site in a clash with the Broughton Capitals. Katie definitely got a workout on defence as she was constantly on the move generally annoying the Broughton players and keeping them to the outside and away from the danger area in front of the goal. This season has certainly been a trial by fire with the defence corps being generally the younger…

Enloe's ladies took to the lacrosse pitch at the friendly but very definitely breezy and chilly confines of Len Bauer Stadium to take on the Sanderson Spartans as the matinee game for Enloe's super-site matches. The super-site dates are ones that host multiple matches on one day at one location and last week found us fighting Carolina Hurricanes and PNC Arena traffic at Cardinal Gibbons. And the wind chill. I'm rather cold-adapted (another way of…

Mistletoe took an inordinate interest in the card game and despite Katie's bashfulness, Mistletoe did a wonderful job of doing the "Kilroy" pose with her head peeking over the top of the table. There's no way I wasn't shooting *THAT*... :)

Tonight starts the neutral field fixtures for lacrosse where one school can host up to three games. Enloe's tilt against the Athens Drive Jaguars was the matinee contest of the night in probably the most posh high school stadium we've seen yet in Wake County at Cardinal Gibbons High School right across the street from PNC arena. Getting to the field was an interesting exercise as I'd never been to that campus in my life…

The Cardinal Gibbons Crusaders visit the friendly confines of Len Bauer Stadium on the Enloe High School campus for an afternoon lacrosse fixture against the Eagles. This would prove to be a very stern test of the defence who certainly had their hands full all game long. I'm sure Katie slept well because she and her fellow defenders were run ragged all over the field and there was very little time to take a breath…

There seems to be something about North Raleigh and excruciating tailbacks...this time with what appeared to be Google Fiber blocking one lane of Falls of the Neuse during *RUSH HOUR*. In spite of that, we made it to Wakefield High School for another very challenging test of lacrosse in a stadium where the end-of-period signal is a police siren. That seems rather amusing as Wake Forest Middle School also rocks a police siren for their…

Enloe's first away fixture of the women's lacrosse season takes us north along the scenic corridor that is Capital Blvd and all the joys that entails of the back-to-back tailbacks all the way to Wake Forest. At least we had a chance to wave in the general direction of Leith Toyota where Nicholas was on duty in the service department (at least in theory at the time...he was actually stuck behind the wheel of a…

Rolesville comes rolling into The Nest for an afternoon tilt with Katie's Enloe Eagles lacrosse team! She started her second game in a row on defence and it was clear from the get-go that these two teams were very evenly matched in terms of speed and skill leading to a very exciting fixture. Rolesville would jump out to an early 3-nil lead but once the defence had gotten rid of the jitters, the Eagles were…