BUDA Open YCC - Roster Selected

Even though a number of players were out of town on family vacations, the second day of tryouts for BUDA's Open YCC team went very well with 17 players in attendance at the Mitre fields in Burlington, MA.

After arriving early and throwing around (it was nice as a coach to get to the fields 15 minutes early and be the last one to arrive out of the whole group), the team got together to talk over how the horizontal stack will work. Almost none of the players have any experience with the H-stack offense and it was certainly a challenge at first. After a few scrimmages and a couple of marking/throwing drills to get a final look at individual player's skills, the final tryout was over and the coaches had a bunch of tough decisions to make in getting the roster finalized.

In the end, the following 19 players were offered a spot on the 2007 YCC Open roster:

David Baecher (Amherst)
Andrew Hollingworth (Tufts University)
Corey Mindlin (Needham)
Andrew Lunetta (Needham)
Branden Steinberg (Needham)
Tom Bassett (Needham)
Ryan Rzepka (Longmeadow)
Alex Kapinos (Longmeadow)
Matt Guild (Amherst)
Julian Summa (Amherst)
Jonah Herscu (Amherst)
Tommy Li (Longmeadow)
Misha Herscu (Amherst)
Patrick Roberts (Amherst)
Kellen Corkill (Amherst)
Russel Wallack (Amherst)
Andrew Kiefer (Amherst)
Ben Nelson (Andover)
Max Gillett (Lexington)

The schedule will be tight as the team will only come together for 3, maybe 4 practices before leaving for Blaine in August.