Tom Marechek isan anchor for the Baltimore Bayhawks.
Marechek, a 1992 graduate from Syracuse University, has been with Baltimore since the league first began in 2001.
Marechek has consistently been a top producer in the Bayhawks attack, and at the beginning of the 2006 season he ranked seventh in career points in the MLL.
In Denver on Saturday, Marechek did all he could to get the Bayhawks a second win of the year, but even his four goals were not enough as the Outlaws won 24-14.
“I had a decent game,” Marechek said. “We got away from our game plan, which was to move the ball.” The six-year veteran said that the attack did not play together against Denver.
The Bayhawks also allowed four two-point goals from the Outlaws in the win. “Any time you give up that many two-point goals you are going to get killed,” Marechek said.
Victimizing Baltimore from behind the two-point line were former Bayhawks Jeff Sonke and Benson Erwin.
“It was kind of weird, playing against those guys,” Marechek said. “They played pretty well and had some outside shots we couldn’t stop.”
There was a bright spot in the loss for Baltimore. Fresh from his senior year at the University of Maryland, Brendan Healy racked up three goals for a hat trick in his first ever professional game.
“That was a very good pick. They seemed to fit in right away,” Marechek said of Healy, and his college teammate and fellow draftee Bill McGlone.
McGlone scored one goal for Baltimore in his first professional game.
“It is a different transition from college to professional, and that is the hardest part,” Marechek said.
The Bayhawks second pick in 2006 and fourth pick overall, Matt Ward (University of Virginia), was still making news despite not being in uniform on Saturday. Last week Ward brought home the Tewaaraton Trophy, which is awarded to the top male and female college lacrosse player every year.
