Michigan/Ohio St/Butler

[laxfan25]

The Wolverines are traveling down to Columbus this weekend for games with Ohio State and Butler. Should be interesting, and more fodder for the MDIA v D1 arguments.
Oh, a team from the Univ. of Maryland is coming out also! They're only playing OSU and Butler though.
We'll be looking for JP's assessment of the weekend.....

[bgigs2]

For all those who want to know here were the scores from the weekend down in Columbus.

MORNING

UM 4 Ohio State 13
Maryland 10 Butler 6

AFTERNOON

UM 6 Butler 7
Maryland vs. Ohio State (not sure of the final score but reports had Maryland winning by 3 over OSU)

The scores for Michigan are not really indicative as to how we played. At halftime of the Ohio State game the score was 4-3 Michigan. At the end of the 1st half against Butler the score was 6-1 Butler, but Michigan came back to pull within 1 and just came up short. All in all it was a great effort put on by all teams.

[cgarrigues]

The format for the event was four twenty minute running clock quarters, and I think there was about twenty minutes between Michigan's two games. Butler was coming inside after playing U Maryland in pretty intense heat for October 1. My college roommate from twenty years ago was with us, attending his first lax game, while receiving updates on the Michigan/Michigan St. football game. To my eyes, the physical differences between OSU, Butler, and U of M were pretty pronounced. OSU has one real stud wearing #25, playing midfield I think. Listed at 6'5", 225 lbs, he really ripped Michigan's defense in the second half. The lighting at Hayes Athletic Center is very intense at the sidelines, but when my sons & I got on the field after the game, it seemed pretty comfortable from there.

Tough Guy award to Michigan attackman Bobby Morales, laid out in the Butler game with a resounding and kind of scary hit (I think it was clean, but it was on the other side of the field and screened by the players but we all heard it plain as day) he was back on the field within a few minutes.

[tjmvp9]

Yeah, #25 is Jason Lutz. I played against him for 3 years in high school, back when I played midfield. If we could shut him down, then we usually shut down Carlisle's entire offense. He used to be all right handed and he would just sweep right and take a hard shot. He was so big and fast it was almost impossible to stay with him every time. I played against him in summer league a year ago, after he came back from one of his first years at OSU, and he was noticeably more well rounded. I'm sure he gives opposing middies all sorts of problems, because their aren't many kids with his combination of size and speed.