Landon Lacrosse 10 DeMatha 8

[Thanks for Carolyn Bou and Bill Kurtz for creating most of the below. Bear 65 is dealing with nasty cough and sneezing; so we have the benefit of this upgraded account of the game.]

Heurich Field is the home of the Stags, a team with a strong lax history including Paul Rabil. The game started well with a Will Bou win at the X (17/21 for the game) and then a series of passes to Joey Graham whose dodge from the other point on the field known as X ended with a goal. At 10:30 DMCHS replied.

A Stags fast break accompanied with excellent ball movement resulted in their 2^nd goal at 5:02. Mitch Laughlin’s excellent save at 3:36 kept the score close.

Garrett Kurtz’s laser pass to Landon Sells brought Landon into a tie @2:17.

The Bears drew a man up with 1:16 left in the quarter.

With 53 seconds remaining in the quarter, Gavin Seasholes sent the ball from up top to Joey G. (“top shelf, lit the lamp”)

In a last second attempt to score the DeMatha player attempted to dive—Mitch had a great save, but Bears were called on a push and went Man Down. The D held- NO GOAL

END OF 1^ST Q BEARS 3 STAGS 2

That push led to the visitors starting this quarter Man Down (no face off) and DeMatha scored 8 seconds i

Mitch had a great stop at 10:22

DeMatha pulled ahead with a goal at 10:05

@ 9:16 Joey G. had a beautiful feed to Guy King who buried it in the back of the nets

DeMatha scored at 7:36

Another flag on the play and we were man down at 6:51. In some unsettled play, Ryan Giles had a beautiful groundball to recover the ball for the Bears.

@ 5:13 Miles Tonkel fed the ball to Zac Oehlerking, who came around the back of the cage tied it up with a nice goal with only 5 seconds left on the shot clock

The home team answered 21 seconds later

The Bears got man up on a cross check at 3:29 @ 2:59 Joey G. scored tied it up again Will Carlson and Guy with the assist and the hockey assist)

Garrett had a great shot with 6 seconds left in the half, but DeMatha’s goalie denied him.

HALFTIME BEARS 6 STAGS 6

Change in Landon’s goalie as Hunter Taylor took a turn in the goal for the second half.

Bears came out hot after the half.

@ 9:04 Graham Hertzberg scored (unclear who had the assist)

@ 8:31 Joey G scored with a diving wraparound shot

Bears were called on a cross check and went man down. The Stags took advantage and scored ten seconds later at 6:42

DeMatha scored again 8-8 at 4:20

Two great saves by the DeMatha goalie at 3:14

Hunter had a great save at 2:35 and we are still 8-8, and another good save with 7 seconds left on the shot clock, and the ball went the Bears way.

END OF 3rd Q BEARS 8 STAGS 8

Bears took a couple of good shots to open the quarter, both denied by the DeMatha goalie

At 7:54 Hunter made another terrific save on a breakaway run by DeMatha

Matt Kopp made another great caused turnover with 4 minutes left in the game, and took a shot, which was denied

Shots by Miles, Joey, Garrett and Will C all denied by DeMatha goalie

@ 2:06Guy K scored on a beautiful feed from Joey G with 4 seconds left on the shot clock.

9-8 Bears

Huge Face-off win by Bou.  Guy K had a great pass to Graham H  who scored with a minute plus left on the clock

Bou won the last face off and the Bears ran down the clock for the win.

FINAL SCORE BEARS 10 STAGS 8

The name of a famous beer-brewing family, which included a son whose behavior caught the attention of Landon’s headmaster and who sought secondary education at another school soon thereafter.