Landon Lacrosse 8 Cardinal Gibbons 6

IL’s #2 rated team in the Southeast, the 11-2 Crusaders returned for an annual meeting with the Bears. The Raleigh team is always stocked with talented athletes and the fact that several of the visitors had Madlax experience on their resumes showed that they followed this tradition.  

The Bears showed their depth in Q3 when the home team registered 3 to their opponents 1. The Landon D was impressive— many takeaways, frequent stopping the CG clears, speed, ground balls in abundance and anticipation.  

The first possession by the Crusaders resulted in the White-jersey defense turnover the ball, followed by DAVIS OWENS’ GB turning into a fast break with his quick pass to SEAN MURRAY who blasted the back of the net with GOAL @11:12. CHASE ROBERTSON demonstrated his jets flying from high right, creating separation and depositing the home team’s second goal. 

The NC players showed that they knew how to score when they broke a Bear clear and scored at 9:31. ANTHONY PANETTI showed his talent from X with a brilliant feed to ANTHONG SAVOY @0:51.5 The play may have been set up by the coaches’ time out at 0:50 

END OF 1ST Q BEARS 3 CRUSADERS 2

The next 12 minutes began with ANTHONY P passing to SEAN MURRAY @ 5:40 –this pattern becomes repetitive throughout the remaining 30 minutes. The Green and Gold responded with a crisp EMO goal at 3:01.  

Another timely timeout at 0:50.0 set up LS’s 5th goal- assist to Chase on a goal by Anthony Savoy @ 0:31.5.

HALFTIME BEARS 5 CRUSADERS 3

Moments after the intermission, a turnover in the Bear D zone resulted in a pass to ANTHONY P to SEAN who registered Landon’s next tally @11:13. The Raleigh squad converted an EMO at 3:01. The Bears then showed their version of GROUNDHOG DAY with the ANTHONY P TO SEAN @ 3:48 and then again, they recreated the 22 to pattern 9 @0:09.1

END OF 3RD Q BEARS 8 CRUSADERS 4

It is a long-standing Bordley tradition to utilize such situations to groom some of the less experienced players. This cast mustered only 5 shots in the final stanza and the NC boys showed resiliency with 2 late goals—at 7:20 and 0:00.1. 

FINAL SCORE BEARS 9 CRUSADERS 6

THE ROCKVILLE BULLDOGS play at home Friday 4/14 at 4:30pm Hoya Saxa translated from Greek means “What Rocks”. The White Rocks have been returned to the 6101 entrance.