Tricksters won Pitbulls Cup 2019

Lacrosse Club Tricksters Bratislava became the first winner of the international lacrosse tournament Pitbulls Cup, organized by the boys from the new Lacrosse club in northern Moravia from Ostrava.

The tournament featured in addition to home team Pitbulls, Brno Ravens and Bohemian Forest Wild boars, Polish club Katowice and our lacrosse club.

The Tricksters entered the tournament by playing against the home team, which they clearly defeated 10:0. nevertheless, Ostrava showed that since the establishment of the club what they learned and each match in the tournament grew.

In the second match of the day our boys came across the Šumava wild boars, who showed what skilful Czech hands know. In this case, the match was totally exacerbated when hiring young opponents, they could not bear the bitterness of losing. Nevertheless, the Tricksters won 5:1

In the third match of the day, the Tricksters encountered Brno Ravens. The combined match between the two teams at the NFLL in 2018 ended in a mass battle, so concerns were in place. Nevertheless, our boys managed the match without any major problems in the ratio 8:2.

The last Saturday’s rivals were Katowice, who showed a very clever game against our boys, but Trickster managed to stay ahead and win the fourth game 4:1.

On Sunday, our boys were waiting for the super-group matches against the best teams in second and third place. Again, they met with Šumava and Katowice.

Šumava started the match better when she managed to score the first goal. However, our boys reacted quickly and turned the score in their favour in half time. Then they only scored goals in the goal of the spectators and the young players of the Šumava flowed nerves. However, the Slovaks finally won 6:1.

In the last match Tricksters met Katowice again. The Tricksters opened the match score, but the opponent managed to match not only the score but also the game. However, the Tricksters did not give up turning the game in their favour and won 4:1. Without a loss in the tournament, they lifted the first ever Pitbulls cup.