November 4, 2002: Two teams of Crease Monkey's entered the 2002 Hawaii Invitational Tournament. The Red squad featured many of the worlds best players including John Grant Jr, Kevin Finneran and Tom Ryan. The CM White Squad featured many of the NW's finest club players: Hugh Barber, Ian O'Hearn, Fred Wilmot, Eric Timrick, Matt Cone, Steve Wisman, David Vannoy and Ben Anderson. The Red squad lost a very close final to Marin by 2, the White squad went 3-1 placing 6th of 13 teams, losing to Michelob Light who featured 15 MLL players. Highlight of the tourney may have been Ian O'Hearn (Mercer Island Head Coach) covering Casey Powell too close for Casey's appetite...Casey was so upset over Ian's tight defense, that he actually punched O'Hearn in the head....Ian simply said "Thank you sir, may I have another" ;-)

This is by far the best lacrosse tournament on earth. The weather is amazing, over 30 pro players participated this year, and the off field atmosphere is tremendous. For more information, check out the tournament website. Lots of pictures posted to Crease Monkey Site

Seattle Men...Hugh Barber, Ian O'Hearn, Fred Wilmot, Erik Timrick, Matt Cone and Steve Wisman