Xavier Booberry Junior Review

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Xavier Booberry

Goalie

Height: 6’6”

Weight: 249 lbs

Age: 17

Team: TBA

 

Most players entering the VHLM have extensive junior careers on well-known traveling teams, preparing their young players for the next level. But at times, there’s a different type of prospect, one who presents more of an unknown. Xavier Booberry comes to the VHLM from the General Mills League, an underreported and mysterious league found in the upper reaches of Minnesota. It is there that Booberry learned to hone his craft.

 

Very few scouts have watched the GML, as it is called, live. But what those lucky few have reported is spectacular: games played on frozen lakes of milk, where descendants of ancient clans such as the Puffs of House Reese’s, the O’Oreos, and the ruling Count Choculas fight for yearly supremacy. The goal, they say, is the finest trophy known to man: the Cereal Bowl. It takes a certain combination of crunchiness and flavor to be able to capture the title.

 

The Booberrys have never been known as a particularly strong contender for the title. They’re seasonal, detractors would say, only showing up for games around Halloween time when the season begins. Inevitably, they fade down the stretch, not caring much for the contest by the time the Cereal Bowl rolls around. Their rivals, those dastardly Choculas, would destroy them every time.

 

But the youngest Booberry, a boy by the name of Xavier, represented a new path. As recent legends have told, he refused to be taken off the shelf, demanding to stay in the game at goalie starting at the tender age of 15. While lesser goalies would have expired, Xavier’s shape and fortitude allowed him to stay active throughout the season, previously unheard of for his team. And while the Booberrys would not capture the Cereal Bowl his age 15 season, a narrow 1-0 loss to the Crunchberries in the quarterfinals would show the GML what he intended to do.

 

It was no surprise, then, when Xavier Booberry came out like a burst of flavor to start his age 16 season. Shutout after shutout, it was clear that Xavier was a talent like few the league had ever seen. Still, few gave Booberry and his supporting cast of Booberrys little chance to win the Cereal Bowl. And despite a miracle run through the playoffs, buoyed by Xavier’s 1.33 GAA, even fewer expected them to beat the Choculas in the finals. They were too good, some would say, and further the refs were on their side.

 

But it was destined to be an even contest: 0-0, in fact, when the overtime period buzzer sounded. The Cereal Bowl would go to OT. And with the spotlight shining on Xavier… he let in the first goal. For a lesser goalie, it would have been the start of a downward spiral. However, the Booberry clan lifted him up, and gave him another lease at life with a miracle goal of their own. Xavier buckled down. Glove side stop. Five hole stop. Off the post. Even diving to get his mask in front of one. And then, as the eldest Booberry Ronald sniped one in the corner to give the Booberrys their first ever Cereal Bowl: jubilation. The Booberrys had done the impossible, with a 16 year old starting goalie.

 

With everything he wanted to accomplish in the GML behind him, Xavier Booberry is now off to see if a GML star’s skills can translate to brighter lights, in the VHLM. He has the size and ability, but will he be able to succeed? Only time will tell.