Men's team grabs silver medal and women's team gets 4th place at the 2010 Nationals
Las Vegas, NV - May, 2010 - by G. Haratyk and N. Shaar
Las Vegas hosted the New England Freeze men's and women's teams for the 2010 USA Team Handball Championships. This year, the nationals were special in many ways. It was the last tournament for the club under the name 'New England Freeze' (the team is now registered as Boston Team Handball), for the first time in many years, there was a deterministic qualification process for the Men's Elite-8 pool to which NEF made it, after four Northeast League Tournaments in the regular season, and, to cap the long season of hard work, the men's team took 2nd place and the women's 4th place at the nationals!
The Freeze reached the semi-final after finishing second of a group gathering Atlanta, Houston and San Francisco. The semi-final, against the 2009 champion of the USA, New York City, was won after a thrilling extra-time and a goal at the very last second scored by Marco Betsch. Los Angeles won the title despite a tough fight the Bostonian team put up.
This is the best result in the clubs history. It demonstrated the ab...[read more]
Boston wins the 4th League Tournament and qualifies to the elite nationals!
Cambridge, MA - April, 2010 - by M. Schwalbe
On April 10, the New England Freeze (NEF) hosted their Northeast League Tournament in hospitable town of Chatham, thanks to Radoslav Delchev. Unlike the previous tournaments, this one had only three of the four league teams. New York Athletic Club (NYAC), who had lost hope in qualifying to the Elite Nationals, forfeited their games. As a result, NEF, New York City Team Handball (NYCTH) and Army Black got to play 3 games of 30min halves.
In the first game, NEF played Army. Still highly motivated to win against them after the desperate loss in the previous tournament, NEF started with a very strong defense complimented by a solid organized offense, which gave them an early lead of 4:0. But Army did not give up easily. They fought their way back into the game and prevented the Freeze from increasing their lead margin. Towards the end of the first half, the Freeze started to slack off and Army caught up slowly. But with a solid performance of the NEF bench, they went into the half-time break with a 3-goal lead.
The second ha...[read more]
Boston wins the LWM Women's Tournament
West Point, NY - March, 2010 - by N. Shaar and M. Deterre
This weekend, the women's team of the Boston Team Handball (BTH) club delivered a strong message to their competitors at the Laura Walker Memorial Tournament, in West Point, NY. Boston finished the tournament with a lossless record, beating NYC 24-20 in the final match.
Six teams participated in the tournament and were split into two groups: Black Bracket included Army Black, Boston, Tar Heels and Gold Bracket included Army Gold, North Carolina and New York.
In their first game, Boston took on Army Black. Army started strong and took the lead (3-1); however, Boston quickly got in the rhythm of the game and caught up, thanks to Sarah Gascon's speed on fast breaks and the teams ability to control the ball on set offense. With 5 minutes left in the first half, Army got a 2min suspension and Boston continued to hammer in goals on fast breaks, increasing their lead to 12-7. With 2 minutes left on the clock Army had the chance to reduce Boston's lead to 4 goals with a 7m throw, but Dina, Boston's goal keeper, kept the lea...[read more]