……Landon Lacrosse 20 Riverside 3…..

The Rams have dominated the VA Class 5 over the past 4 years winning division titles every year, claiming top 5 ranking in their state class  over that period and going 23-0 in 2022. Coach  Nick Worek decided to challenge his players, who include 5 big time Division III commits, against the Bears. Not sure that the trip back to Ashburn, home of the Commanders, was boisterous.

Coaches McGettigan and Kubik must have seen this as an opportunity to get more experience for their incredibly deep bench some prime time play. As best can be told, all of the (~42) of the healthy Bears experienced Varsity competition. The Bears tallied on their first nine SOGs

Period     Time        Goal by           Assist             notes

1             11:54       Talen Smith    won F/O and scored

                        10:53       Makana Neverosky        Caden Southworth

9:50         Mack Cohen                   Sean Murray

8:27         Devin Stewart                Caden

8:16         Aeden Cassidy              Hayden Goozh F/O win

                                    7:35         Sean

3:50         Riley Lugar                     Sean

2:34         Sean                                Caden

0:10.5      Mack

Stephen Riso stopped all 3 shots that he saw. Talen was 8/0 at X with 2 GBs/ 1G and Hayden was 4/0 with 1 GB. Landon was 4 for 4 on clears and only allowed 2 Clears by the Rams. The home O put 9 SOGs.

END of 1^ST PERIOD BEARS 9 RAMS 0

This segment of the game introduced some of the Bears’ depth and the run of consecutive goals reached 12 before the visitors found the back of the nets:

Period     Time        Goal by           Assist             notes

2              10:39       Makana

                9:59         Sean       

Riverside got their 1^st goal at 7:26  

                5:13         Talen       Jason Hawkins

Rams scored on EMO at 2:58

                2:17         Caden     Makana

Stonewall Stephen finally allowed 2 visitor goals. The X-men were Hayden [4/0 and 3 GBs] and Talen [3/1].Clears Bears 2/0; Rams ½. Landon 6 SOGs.

HALFTIME BEARS13RAMS 2

After the intermission the Landon depth got their experience:

Period     Time        Goal by           Assist             notes

3              9:34         Devin              Caden

5:23         Dusty Rhodes

3:34         Dominic Jenkins

                2:25         Mack Docx

                1:01         Dusty              Sean Steis

For this 12 minutes, a new goalie, Eli Green shut out the Rams, stopping all 2 SOGs. The Smith Brothers, Talen (0/1)and Kedren (3/1) were the FOGOs. The Landon O put 8 SOGs, cleared 5/1 and stopped 50% of the Loudon Co. clear attempts.

END of 3rd PERIOD BEARS 17 RAMS 2

The last Q saw the ‘Side team score first at 10:28. Response by the Bethesda boys:

Period     Time        Goal by           Assist             notes

4              10:12`      Andrew Chipperfield  Lars Bergstrom

                                                                        Notable since it

                                                                        was a pole-to-pole

                                                                        score; by 2 hockey

                                                                        players

                6:42         Tristain Allain

Two goalies played in this quarter, Colt Happ and Jack LiCalsi ( a most successful hockey goalie). Kedren and Luke Finnell were the FOGOs. The Bears were 5 for 5 in their clears and the Rams made it into the box within the 0:60 seconds 3 out of 4 times.

FINAL SCORE BEARS 20 RAMS 3

ON Friday 2/4 SS/SA (3/4) will come to the White Rocks for both teams first IAC contests.