Landon 8 St. Albans 5

Saint Albans is a rival and against a team which has been “the enemy” for decades, you throw out the records and just play. It’s a greater challenge when the Bulldogs have a losing record; a victory over the Bears would make their season. StA has three legitimate big time recruits. They have a new coach; so the preparation is not based on years of experience.  He must be doing something smart in terms of strategy; he brought his boys to a -3 margin against Gonzaga. While the visitors held a one goal lead at the beginning of the 4th quarter, the home team prevailed 8-5

Though the Bears controlled the ball much of the first quarter, the Bears took a 1-0 lead @7:34 Garrett Fellows fed Sean O’Brien for a goal.

END OF 1^ST Q BEARS 1 BULLDOGS 0

The Bulldogs retaliated with two consecutive bulldodges by their big, Harvard-bound attackman, Beau Bayh, at 10:34 and then at 8:58.

Sam Lynch made a nice pass out to Colton Rupp who buried it @ 1:31. After a successful face-off by Jarrett Witzal, Colton got the ball and passed to Taylor Valencia who beat the StA goalie @ 1:20

HALFTIME BEARS 3 BULLDOGS 2

Senior Robby Dunigan tried to establish some momentum, drove, caused a slide and fed Colton for his second goal @10:36. Following the pattern of the second period, StA had two successive goals by the same guy Michael Sniezek (who seems to have good success in all 3 sports against the Bears). The first assisted by Sam Grauberger at 5:14 and Cormac Dugan at 6:30.

END OF 3^RD Q BEARS 4 BULLDOGS 4

The visitors got on the scoreboard first with Will Gabriel feeding Bayh for his third goal at 8:54. Another senior, Philip Peña, wanted to be sure that his Bears won and fired an unassisted goal from about 10 yards; his shot caught the bottom right hand corner 6:54. Another exceptional Jarrett face off resulted in getting the ball to Sean O’Brien who thenpassed to a cutting Colton, who made a great catch and quick sticked it for the Bears’ sixth goal @6:43. O’Brien must have decided that he likes to feed his teammates; this time he found Peña who buried it @ 3:57. Garrett must have figured out that Colton had a hot hand for he fed the sophomore for his fourth goal of the game @2:06.

FINAL BEARS 8 BULLDOGS 5

KHARI BATEN “THAT’S A BEAR” AWARD

MARSHALL PETERS– 2 CTs, 3GBs and   several clears

COLTON RUPP—4 Gs 1 A