Payton Trip to Maggie McGinnis for her a lot of [snorts] goals tonight. Four goals for Maggie. Good job. Payton also with the points tonight and her assists looking pretty good. >> how many times we've said over the course of a couple of years Trip to McGinnis, but it's a fun thing to say. It is. And uh that that's a perfect example of only take good shots. If it's not a good shot, don't take it when you're up by a good number and you want to keep it at seven. 3 minutes 15 seconds left. Um the Holliston fans are exiting the building. They've had enough. They see the writing on the wall. 3:15 left, 13 to six. Ashland over the Holliston Panthers. 3 minutes left in the fourth. Yeah. this half got off to uh a not so great start from the Ashland perspective coming in with a two-goal lead.
Um but if others cannot step up to the same degree, then we need to kind of rethink as a board how we want to organize and do things, right? So, if nobody's going to step up and volunteer, then there has to be conversation about that and how what's the alternative. What does that look like? I think we have people lined up and interested, so let's wait. How about this time? >> Well, and leadership styles can >> Well, we can discuss this. We're we're at a public meeting. We can discuss this. Does anyone have an interest? You don't have to You're not bound to it by saying you have an interest, but is there anyone that does have an interest? I think I've said, you know, hey, somebody's got to step up and do it. If and I will always defer to the panel and say, "Do you, you know, Anna, you got Do you want it?" If you don't have the bandwidth, you don't have the time, well, somebody's got to step up, and sure, maybe I can put some of that weight on me, for sure, but I have obviously caution.
Holliston quickly cut it to one. I think it was less than a minute into the the half. That's been it for them. They haven't scored since. >> Yeah. So, uh whether that's Ashland's defense, whether it's Alana Duffey, whether it's the the ride, or a combination of all those things, a well-played half defensively for Ashland. You know, Kev, I always like to look at the future. Try to be a fortune teller. So, you know, looking at what's happened this year and how we're doing, um and you know, just with the loss of two seniors for next year, you know, I was I always look for good things for this year, but uh just looking to see what we can do for next year. It's going to be pretty you know, it's our last home game, last chance we get to talk about this. So, um just love the fact that all these seniors going to come together next year, hopefully with the right attitude and and uh have a solid gold tender as their backing, and have a solid defensive core that's been there for a couple years, and have some offensive players that have been there doing it for a couple years, too.
It's new to me. Like, I don't have the breadth of experience that you guys all have. And, you know, I would say be patient and learn as you go kind of thing. Yeah, no, I >> trained properly. >> Yeah, I mean, I I appreciate that because it's really just about Being chair is really about running It's supposed to be about running the meeting and having, you know, trying to have a clear, efficient, you know, whatever meeting as possible to get the the work done that we need to get done. Everything else kind of builds on that a little bit. You know, there are other things that other things other things do come up that need need an opinion, need a someone to be there, right? So, um But But I don't think you need to I don't think you need to sit on the board for any length of time to become the chair.
So, if coach Katie can reel it in and and get these girls to do what they need to do, I really I have really high hopes for next year. On paper, looks good. We are going to miss these seniors for certain. The good news is there's there's only two of them. Uh you know, when you're trying to replace seven, eight, nine, 10, that's really hard. Replacing two of them seems like a much more manageable task. Yes. So, with with players coming in to to high school, uh with other players getting a year older, a year stronger, a year faster, you you can make up for for the exceptional play of of Ashley and of Lilly. Yeah. I mean, they're definitely tough shoes to fill. I mean, looking at the scoresheet tonight, they got nine goals uh combined with both of them. So, who's going to make up those nine goals?
I think all of us have probably been in a leadership position before. We've been on you know, we've been on different boards and committees before. So, it's just getting a a little bit used to things. Um So, I'm happy if anyone Anyone should be able to step up. Paul, if you're willing to do that and but anyone else can also put their What do they What do they have in the ring, as they say? And I think it's absolutely okay for leadership styles. I know she set a very high high bar to that position. We we may not be able to get there because she was able to accomplish that with with her interest. So, it's fair for the leadership style to be different. We all can We all learn to do it. >> the leadership style was different before. Sure. So, yeah. Absolutely. We We make decisions together.
Maggie, Payton, draw controls, Aaron Hickey's going to step up next year. She's going to do some damage. You got these freshmen that are going to mature into sophomores next year. They're going to help to pick some some of the goals up. So, it's going to be a lot more concerted effort with everybody playing together and and given goes and and picking rolls and and drawing dumps and all the things that need to happen in the whole game to to make it make it successful. So, I'm excited. But, you know, still excited to see what this year is going to go. Got a minute left. 13 to 6. Ashlin up by seven points. If they can keep the lead the way it is, it's it's going to certainly help us to get into the tournament no matter what. But, um Lily Vitti picks up the ball.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So, Right. As Trish said, it's about managing the meeting, right? But the decisions are made as a unit, as a group. So, that that's great. So, >> Yeah. But I mean, it's not just about the meetings. Like, I think the [clears throat] bigger piece of it is, you know, being Trish reviews all the decisions and details. She meets with the planner ahead of time on the bigger projects. She shows up on site. There's a whole kind of hands-on piece to it. Now, it doesn't have to be done in that vigorous way, but that that's the strength of the board in theory. That's the part where I'm suggesting some creativity. Like, if one person is unable to do all of that, >> Right. there can be kind of a division of tasks. We traditionally as a board have not defined the the roles of each title very clearly.
Ashley Forrester. Minute left here. Back to your previous point. Almost without fail, players get better as the years go by. So, these freshmen next year are going to be better than they are right now. Sophomores, same. Juniors, I mean, >> and seniors, going to be the same. McGuinness and Tripp could barely catch and throw the ball with their left hand when they started in freshman year. Look at them now. They're they're maniacs. So, uh it is it's uh I mean, even looking at Alyssa and Gabby, I mean, Alyssa's left hand is going great. I mean, she she's been just advancing as a player and and can only get better. So, things are uh I'm excited. And you'll start the the season with the best goalie in the TVL as a brick wall in your net as well. So, that's a that's a great thing. As long as we can, you know, get that appendix under control and she doesn't have to burst it again, we'll have a good good year next year.
We don't have rules on that as to what clerk means, what vice chair means, what chair means. So, like, in theory, we could either have somebody step up and say, "I'm going to be the next Trisha." Or we can look at each of these titles or create new ones. Maybe there's somebody who's going to show up at every site. Maybe there's somebody who's really good at reading decisions and who's willing to take that on and they're the writer. Maybe there's someone who's around Ashland a lot and who can show up to the planner for random questions that planning or legal has. It doesn't all have to be one person. That's kind of what I'm suggesting. [clears throat] >> the biggest thing that can take the burden I think the biggest thing that can take the burden off the chair is that is that is a um I felt at least that in showing up to a meeting, I had to make I had to be sure that at least one person read through the decision and you know and you know looked at all the stuffs.
Ooh, last minute goal. No good. 3 seconds left. Trying everything they can to put the ball in the net, but that's it. Ashlin comes out on top 13 to 6 with just the right amount of points here to help out. And a lot of points on the board tonight, Kev. Sure was. Lily Vitti with her six goals, Maggie McGuinness with four, Ashley Forrester with a couple, uh Ally Marseglia with one, and then the assists. Payton Tripp had I think three, but I or four. Lily Vitti had one, Maggie McGuinness had one, Erin Hecky had one, Ali Marseglia had one, Rhianna Adorno had one. Busy, busy busy score sheet. And we got Payton with her 100th point for the year, career, which is great, too. Um yeah, see where it goes. All right. For the season, we're signing off. We won't be back until next year.
So, I had to you have to make sure one person did so I had to make sure it was me. Right? So, I think it's about but but in effect, this is about five people making decisions and five people should actually be reading all the information because that's our job. And to come prepared to every meeting, not hey this person can and I'm not saying this is what happened, but but um but one person shouldn't be briefing all the other us. All of us should be reading it and making our own opinion and then discussing those opinions amongst each other, you know, in the public forum. Um so, I want to be careful that we don't go to hey you're in charge of this, you're in charge of this and now we have one person's opinion and they're kind of telling everyone else what they discovered instead of five people bringing five voices to the table, which is what I think it's intended to do with five elected positions.
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So, and that's and that's where the kind of the burden is uh on it. So, I think once you I think people >> [clears throat] >> Any questions about that? Like it takes a while to kind of get into the mode of of what how the decisions are organized or how um you know, how they read. And and I'm happy to kind of go with that in more detail because like one of the things I did when I joined the board I must have been right after I became chair is to go through the whole the decisions because they were You should look at some of the old ones. They were all dis- They were all disorganized. I could not understand them. And so I shuffled everything and put things in categories so that they would be understandable because I couldn't understand it. >> How did they get to that point?
I don't know. Was it because of the way it was led before or was it just >> I I don't know. Different boards and record keeping. Different boards, different planners have different styles. You know, even with Jasmine versus Peter, there's big differences in how decisions are framed. So I I don't want to go back in time because not everybody was here. But I mean, what I will say is we we have a new planner. We have a fairly new board. Um there's a lot of change. All I'm suggesting is I think Trisha did an amazing job under the circumstances and whatever the next configuration is, we can be creative and thoughtful about it and Trisha is not going anywhere. So ultimately we'll have her feedback. Um what I will say is on my end, like running a meeting is very different in my opinion from doing decision writing.
Which is very different from being available to the planner anytime, right? When something needs to happen. A lot of these things are fairly last minute. We've gotten a lot better, but not always. And so to me it's like we need to talk about as a board, like do we have that capacity to kind of be available to Jasmine when she texts during the day? Mhm. Can you show up at town hall if necessary? Um who's going to do that? I just want to point out that's very minimal. Like, not to be rude, very rarely see Trisha in person. That's That has to not sound as monumental as it is, but we can discuss [clears throat] that offline what that really looks like if you'd like. And I think once you take on that responsibility, automatically you will figure out how to navigate So, I mean, I have I personally, on my day job, am part of so many different community boards.
Um and each one has a different style and flavor to it. And just like how we get documents last minute, I personally send documents literally hours before a meeting. But we use that time during that meeting to really go through it. Yes, you may not be able to take a decision 5 minutes. It may happen 10 minutes later >> [clears throat and cough] >> so people can read it. So, I don't think there's a right or a wrong way to it. So, I think any of us who can step up to it. And we're going to make mistakes, we're going to learn from it. So, And like Anna said, Trisha's here. Trisha's willing to be that support system. But Yeah, and and I'll add, I think Jasmine has experience. She She came here from prior, you know, prior planning boards. And so, um I will say I probably won't be like if I was chair, I would not probably not be as vigorous as Trisha is with decision writing.
Uh I probably would would be less less so. On the other hand, on the legal stuff, I might pay more attention. So, we all bring our own kind of comfort or expertise. Um if that makes any sense. And so, it doesn't need to be a replication of Trisha. On the other hand, I am recognizing that yeah, it might be rare that you need to go to town hall, but like it still happens sometimes. You need to go in there and have a meeting. Um and not all of us might have that. So, this is where I'm like throwing it out there that whoever steps up, you know, we can also have a wider conversation about it. What are the responsibilities of the rest of the board? Because that can be part of stepping up. Which we we haven't really done. We haven't like had defined, written out roles before is what I'm suggesting.
Like actually pick point, like what are you going to be doing on the board? If we wanted to do that. All right, food for thought for uh June 11th. For June 11th? But People won't be here. So, we're doing it June 11th. Yeah, that's 4 weeks. Two 4 weeks from now is June 11th. Yeah, two meetings. 4 weeks. Well, maybe 2 weeks from now will be a a someone's practice run about how to run the meeting. >> forward for one more meeting? No, I'm saying next one is why someone Why can't someone else chair? I mean, I'd be happy to run the next meeting if that's helpful. I don't know what's on the agenda, but happy to help. Just till then and the decision for Great. Happy to do it. That's on the table right now. Yeah, so Should we make a motion to adjourn for the evening?
Yes, we should. I'll make a motion to adjourn at 9:07. Second. And a roll call vote. Bobby [clears throat] Kennedy, Anna Testman, I. Scappucci, I. I'm on the scene of I. Antush Kandali, All right. Good night, everybody.