Regular season is over with a last win!

The regular season is now over, and we are proud to finish 2nd of the division. .
Although we had the capabilities to be first!

This Sunday was the game for the battle for the 2nd place, if we won, we keep the 2nd place, if we lost, we go down to 3rd position.

Then, after seeing our 2 left handed player joining, occupying the corridor and enjoying the distribution of our new jersey (so far, nobody found a difference between new and old ones), we started with the ball against BRAVE for the battle of our lifes!

The first 20 minutes were really a tough fight, with a strong defense on our side to prevent them from scoring too much. But our attack, despite some nice combinations, saw too much waste to really lead the game. We kept 1-2 goals difference until the 20th minute, which happened to be-in my opinion- the beginning of the 5 best minutes we played this year. Defense was amazing, strong and fair, and attack was also perfect. Combinations worked, open shots scored and a 5-1 for us to reach the half time on the nice score of 13-8.

We changed the side pitch and compared our muscles during a happy but serious half time, and then started the half time on the same bases! Defense kept doing well and attack, despite a bit more wastes, shown some very nice things. After 10 minutes, we were leading by 8 points, and that was the time for Akita to have its usual lost of focus. Hopefully, our defense still was very good, but we missed over 5 shots in a row, especially 2 in counter-attack (thanks Gerard!). Hopefully, we quickly re-concentrate and the last 10 minutes were an easy and calm end of game. Final score: 25-16.

Some few points to note: it’s so easy when you have a left hand player on the right of the attack! Also, and as it’s never good to complain, we can clearly say that the refereeing was quite unfair, with few looooong attacks for BRAVE (and no time’s foul) but also a whistle really more speedy to stop our attack than BRAVE’s one… Whatever, we can’t change them and we are used to it now!

So, we officially finish the regular season and now comes the time of the play off. No schedule yet for the game, and also no idea on how does it work, but we have to keep concentrate and fully motivated as the teams we will meet now are the best one, including the 2 teams who won us!

We still have the Wan Chai pitch for few sessions (thanks Yannick!), so please try to get there as much as possible, then we can train well!

Next trainings:
- February 22nd, 10.00-11.00pm.
- March 7th, 10.00-11.00pm.
- March 21st, 10.00-11.00pm.

See you all there!