LANDON LACROSSE 16 SAINT ALBANS 8

[The Haudenosaunee Five Nations’ oral historysays that the Creator decided that the captains of the original game were the Deer, the Great Turtle, the Owl, the Hawk,  the Eagle and the Bear. The creator must have had a vision of our #50; for he chose the Bear,whose weight overpowers all opposition.]

Most sports cyberneticians subscribe to the theorem that is difficult to beat an opponent three tomes in the same season. For example, in the history of the uber competitive NFL, that over the past 40 years a triple win has happened only 21 times. The underlying premise is that after two contests, the underdog has learned the winner’s strengths and weaknesses. Add to that pattern the fact that two old rivals have had to play the troika in thrice in five days.

 This game resembled game #1 in which the Bears were able to cut through the Bulldogs young defense and set up assisted goals at the StA net’s front entrance. Within the first 10 minutes, the home team had beaten the Bulldog goalie five times:

        Goal   Scorer                   Assist                       Time  Notes

        1      Anthony Savoy        Graham Hertzberg 9:52

        2      Graham                   Stephen Bou           9:04

        3      Graham                   Cameron Brown        5:55  EMO

        4      Anthony S                Graham                   5:01

        5      Kevin Miller              Cameron                 0:45

        6      Graham                   —–                          0:07

Over these 12 minutes the Bear D shutout the visitors—not only no goals, no SOGs and no Shots at all. Landon’s defense : Cullen Brown, Sebastian Fischbach and Jake Cohen plus a host of LSMs and the best lacrosse athletes—SSDMs, were dominant.

Hunter Taylor recorded no stats because he didn’t see any Bulldog shots. Nic Kopp was 6 and 1 at the faceoff dot. 

END OF 1^ST Q BEARS 6 BULLDOGS 0

Period 2 saw Landon add another 4 goals to its side of the ledger:

Goal   Scorer                   Assist                       Time  Notes

7      Stephen B               Cameron                 11:08

8      Will Single               Anthony S                8:57

9      Graham                   ————                 6:20

10    Landon Sells           ———–                   5:40 wide wing shot of 7’ plus? Hit the far corner

After 20 minutes off no tallies, the Bulldogs hit the back of the Bear nets at 3:51 and then at 2:18.

To break for the intermission, Graham scored his 6^th goal @0:05.

Life at the X was divided between Nic (1 and1) plus Bobby Rudzki (2 and 3). Hunter faced 7 shots, stopped 4 and 2 GA.

HALFTIME : BEARS 11 BULLDOGS 2

The StA scored the 1^st (at 11:34) and last (1:10) of this segment. The home team bench got some important minutes against a varsity opponent which will increase their confidence for 2022.

Goal   Scorer                   Assist                       Time  Notes

12    Zak Oehlerking        Will Cohen               8:23   the play started in the Bear D zone with an interception, dodge and hockey assist to Will

13  Cameron                   Zak                          6:25

14 Graham                      ————                 4:40

15 Parker Nolan              Gavin Schwartz        3:13

Bobby R was 3 and 3 @ X.  Hunter saw 7 shots, 4 saved and 2 scored. During this 12 minutes and the last quarter 13 players moved from the sidelines to the game.

END OF 3^RD Q BEARS 15 BULLDOGS 4

The final period was a traditional Landon approach to such games—multiple players got significant time against StA and all of the senior netminders got into the circle Owen Hagadorn (Hampden Sydney G recruit) and Cal Christenson collectively were challenged with 10 shots, made 3 saves with only 7 SOGs. Bobby R was 3 and 2 at the X.

The visitors added 4 goal—at 8:58, 6:39, 3:24 and 0:01; while Gavin earned a goal @7:48.

FINAL SCORE BEARS 16 BULLDOGS 8

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