Thirty-nine Bears suited up for today’s game and in a statistics keeper’ nightmare, the efforts of every one of them was recorded in the scorebook. Fourteen boys’ stat line were marked with a G or an A. All of the remainder had a notation of a ground ball, caused turnover, save, face-off win and/or clear next to their names. That crew included a fair amount of youth with 6 sophomores and 4 freshmen.
The Bulldogs of Winston Churchill came to Bordley Stadium on rainy and chilly day. They have a strong 11-2 record and clearly have some talented athletes who can play. The difference was in the numbers of teammates, collectively who are critical in this team game. The Bears just had more players who could move the ball, make the catch in a contested situation, scoop the GB on the run, slide when needed or make the expected saves.
The home boys took a quick 4-0 lead with goals
Jack Bolen goal at 6:42,
Colton Rupp goal Riley McTague assist @5;38,
Sam Offutt (unassisted)@2:58 and
Koko Avedisian goal Nate Buller assist @ 2:23.
The Bulldogs tallied a goal with 1:28 remaining.
END OF 1ST QUARTER BEARS 4 BULLDOGS 1
The next twelve minute segment was proof of the Bear depth with six unanswered goals—
• Jack Bolen goal Nate assist @ 9:03• Riley McTague goal Nate assist @ 6:44• Rob Adkins goal @ 6:20• Koko goal Kyle Hartman assist @ 5:47• Max Menkes goal Koko assist @ 1:20• Kennedy Dunn goal @ 0:19.7
HALFTIME BEARS 10 BULLDOGS 1
The next quarter saw the Bears add five goals while the Bulldogs registered three (at 11:25, 8:44and 3:47). The Bears offense was exhibited by the following Gs and As:
• Griffin Brown goal @ 10:58• Kennedy goal @ 10:03• Max goal from Sam• Luke Kurtz goal Kennedy assist• Sam goal @ 1:27
END OF 3RD QUARTER BEARS 15 BULLDOGS 4
The last two periods gave many Landon players had their chance against the WC varsity; the following boys contributed to the game (in order of their numbers—Jack Prutting, Brian Menendez, Justin Conner, Will Lincoln, Andrew Fowler, Brian MacLaury, Vinnie Steis, Will Poston, Stephen Gee, Joey Tabb, Will Amoroso and Stephen Bauer. Though the weather was miserable, these Bears had fun.
The Bulldogs tallied six times while the Bears added two goals, both unassisted—• Joey Tabb @ 10:22• Will Lincoln @9:40.
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