Open Gym at the AC tonight, Monday 01/30/12

There will be basketball games at both in the Pit and in the AC. Both start at 6:30, so soccer will probabl;y start a little later then usual.

Good News

Check out http://hoosierfutbol.org/SHOWCASEPAGE.html. The showcase is on for 2012 (mark your calendars for July 20/21/22 and write down "Davis Park-Anderson"). As you know, the hoosierfutbol.com site has been shutdown. It has been replaced by the updated and more user friendly hoosierfutbol.org site. Check it out!

Bad News

No Open Gym again this coming Monday, January 23 due to Sweetheart activities in the AC that night. See everyone on Monday January 30th!

Thanks again Coach Seitz

As if videotaping and taking photo's wasn't enough to help out NW soccer, Mr. Seitz became once again Coach Seitz for the indoor season. Thanks again for coaching this bunch of guys.

Oranje VC...down and out!

Oh what a night. Complete disorganization on the Sports Center's part ,eant we would start almost 2 (!!) hours late. The opponent (Mad Kickers)in this first round was not very good but seemed to have brought up some players, not seen before. After 25 minutes the score was 1-1 (Clay Seitz goal)and it was OT time. Only seconds into OT, MK attacked, went thru the defense like a hot knife thru butter and scored the losing goal (for us). End of season (3 wins, 5 losses).

Open Gym for 01/16/12

There will not be Open Gym Soccer Monday 1/16 due to the Freshmen Basketball game on Monday at the AC. See everyone Monday 1/23/12 at 7:30 pm.

Oranje VC Tournament information

The first tournament match is this Saturday (1/14/12) at 6 pm. Games only last 25 minutes. If we win the first game, we will play again at 8:30 pm. If we would lose, we are done.

UPDATE: FROM COACH SEITZ
Oranje VC will play Mad Kickers. We beat Mad Kickers 9-0 during the regular season. Oranje ended the season with a 3-5 record (8th place). Sounds like we will play at 6 & 8:30.

FC Groningen on its way to Tenerife

Flight to the sun........and prepare for second half of the season.

Session #2

If anyone is interested in playing indoor for the second session, tell Clay. He will compose the list for Coach Seitz and the money will need to be paid in full within two weeks. If 8 players sign up, the cost will be $ 100 each, if 10 players sign up, the cost will be $ 80 each. Signed up so far:
Clay
Carter Beebe
Kyle

Will add when we get more people to sign up.

Open Gym update for Monday 1/9/12

Baseball workouts start tonight. This means that baseball will be in the AC until 7:30 and our OG will start after baseball gets out of the gym (which means we will not be able to get in the AC before 7:30).

Oranje VC collapses in second half

On paper this feature looked like it should be a fairly even game (FC Elite in full Arsenal kit had the same record as Oranje). The first half actually reflected that. With Josh Ailes and Taylor Wegmiller goals, the score was 2-2 at the half. But a two week lay off and Christmas meals took their toll when running turned into walking and a defensive effort was nowhere to be found, hence the 10-3 final score. Next up is the tournament this coming weekend. When game times are known, they will be posted.

TWINWS

Happy Monday! School is back in session and that means that Open Gym will commence again as well. We will start around 7:30 until about 9 pm.

northwoodsoccer.blogspot.com

For those of you who are new to this blog, this site gives information about NorthWood High School Men's soccer. This is year #6 for the blog, it started in 2007. The blog supplies information to players, parents, family members, friends and former players on the activities the program is involved in. Announcements for practices and Open Gym are posted here, game announcements are made and information will be posted on pre and post season games and events. Information about the indoor team (Oranje VC) is posted here as well and this spring we will probably post some Elkhart County United information as well as it pertains to our players.

During the season, game recaps and pictures (courtesy Lindy Seitz) are posted here the day after the game.

As a bonus (if that is what you want to call it), I post occassional news about FC Groningen and VV Grijpskerk here as well.

VV Grijpskerk update

Hope is the keyword in Grijpskerk, hope that the VV will do better in the second half of the season. After the firt half, the VV sits in 11th position with only 10 points and tied with Drenthina, just one point more then Blauw Wit '34 and only 4 more then bottom feeder Leeuwarder Zwaluwen. Effective at the end of the season, Grijpskerk's current Head Coach, Luitzen Nijboer, will try his luck at Blauw Wit '34 who signed him away from the redshirts. The "smallruggen" are now in the market for a new Head Coach and at this point is is obviously unclear whether the VV will be able to remain in the first division or , with a worse second then first half of the season, be relegated to the second division. Next up is #3 Holwierde on 1/28/12.

FC Groningen update

2012 is not starting out very well. With numerous storms and excessive rainfall, all police forces have been diverted to work near the coast to support the crews working the flooding. Therefore tonight's game with Cambuur has been canceled because there would not be enough police manpower available to guarantee the safety of the fans at the game. On Monday, the FC will fly to Tenerife (Spain) to get ready for the second half of the season. First opponent in the Eredivisie will be Heracles.

Enevoldsen (photo), the Denmark native, broke open his contract and signed a year extension, as did head coach Huistra.FC Groningen occupies 8th place and has played well as of late, not losing in the last three contests before the winter break.

TWINWS

This week in NW Soccer offers little, really. But everything starts back up this Sunday (1/8/12). At 9 pm, Oranje VC will take on FC Elite. Both teams have a 3-4 record. Open Gym will start up again on the first day of school, Monday 1/9/12. If there is a change on the start time of 7:30, it will be posted here. 2012 is a year with high expectations. With a good core of players coming back and a high quality of freshmen coming into the program, this promises to be a succesful year! Oh, and Happy New Year, of course!!!!