East Cobb kicks off season at Charlotte Play-Day

New opponents, friends, frenemies and all in between - greetings from the Charlotteyburg!

Your Hogs kicked off our 2019 Season by rolling up I-85 to the South’s most exciting city, Charlotte. Known for 24/7 excitement, the world’s best restaurants, a thriving Chinatown, America’s finest airport and the best whitewater rafting in the universe, the Queen City was the backdrop for our first games of the year that included referees (or so we thought).

We met up with the QC Misfits, a new club out of Charlotte, Jacksonville Juice from eastern NC, and the Columbia Natives.

The Hogs went 1-2 in play on the day - not the result we wanted - which was ended unfortunately by Bailey Hintze, a/k/a Sir Dirt, being knocked out in our last game by a coma slide. (Bailey is ok, his defender left with a flat nose, however…). Scary stuff regardless, and not how you want to see a teammate. The paramedics in Matthews, NC did a great job taking care of him!

We look forward to our rematches with these teams.

Sir Dirt with the great first responders of Matthews, NC and the squad!

Gerber doing his Gerber thing.

Quality officiating means looking away.

…The Chaaaaaaaaaang.

…The Chaaaaaaaaaang.

2019 Color Games: The Tradition Continues

Fancy intra-squad scrimmages you say…

During the winter months when other clubs’ players are in colleck doing sports stuff the 🦔s scrimmage ourselves. Color Games. We pretend these are real games, wearing our uniforms so we can get sweet, sweet instagram pics, but they’re fake indeed.

We are fake news.

We don’t remember the scores, we do remember that Adam Kornuth is a terrible referee, and that the Hogs defeated Reinhardt because they crashed our Fake News Bowl in January. There you go, NAIA 🥇🥇🥇

If you were a Hog you could do this too.

These two teams hate each other!

These two teams hate each other!

I wants to play too!

I wants to play too!

Rivals for lyfe.

Rivals for lyfe.

Convincing advertising. Tacos!

Convincing advertising. Tacos!

This ref is hot garbage, and his scooter is evil.

This ref is hot garbage, and his scooter is evil.

East Cobb plays some sports at Shootout for Soldiers Atlanta

The Hogs had a solid outing at Shootout for Soldiers Atlanta at Kennesaw Mountain this past weekend. 

The club and its friends and family raised over $3,100 - and brought 25+ players to the event this year. Three players - Spencer Pursley, Patrick Cheney and Phil Seo took the crown for fundraising - generating $2,000 in contributions between the three of them. The event itself raised over $60,000 for our veterans. 

The club "won" our hour - 8-3 - which probably counts for something somewhere. Solid portion of the squad stuck around for "after hours" and played until about 4:00 AM. Shoutout to the Original Gigantor, Mike Voso, for trampling attackmen, Mike Matthews for style points (silky goals all day) and Mike Montgomery for ugliest shorts (and solid netminding). 

Squad Pic - Rupert Hoggington came along for the ride. 

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Hoggingtons Conquer First Sugarloaf Shootout

Hoggington Conquest!

Belated write-up here... A sharp looking East Cobb Box Squad stepped on the floor for the first time on March 24th and 25th at the Infinite Energy Arena in Suwanee, GA - the home barn for the Georgia Swarm. The Hog's were undefeated in open play and took the cup vs. the Nashville Ostriches. The squad had wicked new members - just a few national champions and a very large midfielder who played at Duke...

Tourney MVPs received some new Gnomeware for killing it during the tournament:

Offense MVP:     Dan Eipp - Forward [Ninja Gnome]

Defense MVP:     Jon Gill - Defense [Grumpy Gnome]

Tourney MVP:     John McLaughlin - Goaltender [Sasquatch]

Box Lacrosse will continue to be a solid part of what East Cobb does going forward - be on the lookout for Fall Box with ECLC!

More images of the tourney are here.

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Rupert Hoggington himself

Pat and Myles

Pat and Myles

The Offense

The Offense

First Ever East Cobb Tourney Champions

First Ever East Cobb Tourney Champions

East Cobb March Color Game

The Tradition continues...

On this Episode of "Hogs n' Stuff", we played lacrosse again. Team Shark Attack (White), led by Anthony "Gerber" Winters, won in fake overtime, 4-3, against Team Spring, Summer, Fall, Beat Winters, led by Hunter Alexander. We also performed fake face-offs and had an invisible referee. 

The April Color Game will change format: White vs. Blue vs. Average Joes. Average Joes will be our dirtiest (in more ways than one) players. 

Pictures of the game are here.

 

White leads the series 2 - 1. 

White leads the series 2 - 1. 

The most orange cleats ever produced.

The most orange cleats ever produced.

Philly looking to go Full Send

Philly looking to go Full Send

Chuckles and Cankles

Chuckles and Cankles

Mittens and Lax - Blue vs. White Scrimmy

Hog Fam-

The club had it's second Blue vs. White Scrimmage of the year at Kell High School - Blue were "Mathletes from Georgia Tech", led by GK Matt Sommerfeldt; White was "PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018", led by GK Matt McCarthy. 

It was surely a cold day in Hell because everyone showed up promptly for the most part and no one flaked. Club played full sides with ample subs. The boys also got their new frosty mitts: Warrior Evo Pros and Brine King Elites. Pictures don't do them justice!  

Mathletes took the game with a score of 7 - 1 over the Korean Winter Games. The Series is now tied 1 - 1. The winner gets beer pitchers at Taco Mac and a pic with Rupert the Hog.

The squad welcomed some new guests and players this past weekend: Stephen Dolbow (Mid), Andrew Taralongo (Mid), Jack Quinn (Def), Jeffrey Allar (Mid), Jake Sciotto (Def), Tanner Fant (Att). As always, if you're interested in playing lacrosse with our club, check out this page here.

Next event: Blue vs. White, 3 March 2018. 

Here are some snaps - more pics on our Facebook page here.

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Five Seasons of Hedgehogs

Hog Friends & Famiglia-

Four years ago today Lacrosse met our Hedgehog for the first time in a whistled game vs. The Ivy. We never expected our club to last as long as it has - from an experiment in "looking good" to a club that can handle 5 tourneys a year, a summer league and rent its own field.  There's more progress now with better organization, better equipment, and even more players. 

This weekend the boys will hit the field to celebrate that day and compete for beer pitchers at Taco Mac. We're playing our monthly "Blue vs. White" scrimmage - one of us will even pretend to be a referee.  

Teammates still with the club from that day: Jonathan Overman, Stephen Patch, Hunter Alexander, Marshall Hood, Tanner Bruton and Andrew Flood. 

Here are some pics from February 13, 2014 for your perusal...

First game demanded a line up. The Ivy was not pleased...

First game demanded a line up. The Ivy was not pleased...

When Kell's field was so fresh

When Kell's field was so fresh

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Good shot of our old unis and helmets

Good shot of our old unis and helmets