LMS finish 5th at Tour

8 LMS players Sparky, Sinead, Jen, Claire, Deirdre, Laura, Liz and Sj, plus 3 lovely pickups Claire, Bex and Sarah took on the teams at Tour 2 on June 19th, 20th. LMS started with 6th seed putting us in a power pool of seeds 5-8th. We kicked off on Saturday morning at 9.30am against Iso. After suffering a bad start with 2 points down LMS called a time out and decided it was time to "screw the noodle on". We played alot better and began converting our points and made less mistakes on offense. This resulted in our first win of the day! This gave us the start we needed and we continued in the same fashion to beat Brighton in sudden death, Swift and Crown Jewles. The day was gusty and it gave us a chance to practice our man and zone D's, both of which needed attention. After a long day with 4 tough games we finished top of our pool and gained the 5th place position.

We had a crazy evening of eating glorious mega sudaes with icecream, brownie, profiterole, flakes, chocolate sauce and cream while watching Denmark beat Camaroon. This was followed by a bedtime movie - Cruel intentions which finished at the late hour of 11.30pm!! After a great sleep had by some and a not so great sleep had by others we awoke at 7am to eat as much free breakfast as possible before heading to the pitches for our toughest and most important game so far.

To get into the top 4 we had to beat Nice Bristols which consisted of a team similar in standard to our own. A mix of experienced solid handlers and throwers with inexperienced but fast athletic recievors. Unfortunately it wasnt to be for LMS. Early in the game they got a lead due to break throws and some luck which they managed to retain for the rest of the game. It was the game we had be looking for, tough but good for LMS. We took alot from it and look forward to playing them again with our full squad.

This left us fighting to retain our 5th place position which meant playing Swift and Brighton again. LMS won these games fairly well to retain 5th which it seems is our lucky number this season, 5th at Worlds perhaps??

MVP: Laura
MSP: Our pickup Sarah who was great all weekend
A-game: Sparky (represented by apple core :) )