Team Notes

Comings: Rusty Hafner rejoins our team's active roster after being put on the inactive list for the Joe Maire Tournament weekend in order to play high school football. Hafner who assures us that he is a standout linebacker was "instrumental" in holding the opposition to under 50 points in his team's 50-47 win - a defensive struggle for the ages. Its a good thing Rusty was there to bolster his team's defense or the other team may have put up a 60 spot on them in his absence.....(hey Rusty what kind of defense is that?).

Goings: Caught in a numbers crunch at our forwards position Matt Stemkoski has left the team and will join the Honeybaked Organization. Matt is an excellent player and person from a great family. We wish him much success. With Matts' departure, Evan Johnston takes over jersey #14 on our team's roster.

Callups: Forward James Poston has been called up to Chris Coury's Midget Majors for Belle Tire's two game home series with the Marquette Electricians in MWHEL play this weekend. Good Luck James we will be watching. The move of James to the Midget Majors has cleared the way for Ivan Gaydayenko to rejoin the active roster for our games against Grand Rapids and Team Ohio this weekend. Gaydayenko who did not make the trip to the Joe Maire Tournament played in 1 game for the Rochester Rattlers Midget A team over that weekend and scored both goals in the Rattlers 2-1 victory.

Close To Return: Garrett Ross appears to be close to returning to game action. Ross, injured in a bizarre 4-wheeler incident in late-July, is expected to rejoin our team for full game action for the Border City Cup Tournament. A goal scoring sniper who is rated by The Scouting News as the 113th best 1992 birthyear player in North America, Ross will add grit and scoring punch to our forwards unit that, although very deep and talented, has struggled to produce goals in the early portion of the season at our anticipated level.

Name Game: We have six 91's on our team. All of their names end as LandER, HafnER, TillER, and ShattER along with PosTON and JohsTON. Is this a mere coincidence? And although a previous blog post satire joked that Rusty Hafner is a relative of Cleveland Indians Slugger Travis Hafner, Goalie Brach Tiller is actually the great nephew of Purdue University Head Football Coach Joe Tiller, and Forward Nick Booth claims to actually be a distant relative of the infamous John Wilks Booth.

Amazing Turnaround: In March of 2006 the 1992 Belle Tire team wrapped up its 0 - 28 MWEHL record in a season which saw them score only 29 goals and give up well over 200. Fast forward 18 months later to this week when the Belle Tire Midget Minor team comprised of a core group of sixteen 1992 birthyear players has earned the current ranking of 7th best Midget Minor team in North America. Thats one amazing turnaround.