LANDON LACROSSE 9 GONZAGA 8—OVERTIME

The Bears and the Purple Eagles have a long competitive history (3-2 in favor of the Bears over the past 5 seasons).

Last year at Eye Street, the Gonzaga lead of 5-1 was deleted by an incredible comeback, partially by Chase Robertson’s 5 goals. The game was tied at 10-1, but the visitors quickly ended the suspense as Hayden Goozh won the F/O, Troy Ulisney earned an assist on Kevin Miller’s goal @0:43 expired.

At Triplett Field at Bordley Stadium, the home team registered a lead as (i) SEAN MILLER dodged from behind and beat the Purple Goalie @9:23 (ii) JONAS HAWKINS showed his great hand-eye coordination by snatching a rebound off of the goalie’s stick and shooting before any opponent could react @5:24.

STEPHEN RISO was stout in his nets stopping all 6 of the GCHS shots. Landon cleared 5 out of 6 tries and stopped the visitors on 2 of their 5 clears. Bears had 5 SOGs.

 Q1 BEARS 2 PURPLE EAGLES 0

A Landon penalty in the last seconds gave the opponents possession as Q2 started. Though the time on the EMO clock expired, the initial G tally was before the L D reassembled at 11:20. JONAS exhibited basketball talents as snared another rebound and scored @ 10:23.

Purple Eagles then had consecutive goals at 7:33 and 2:14 to narrow the margin. SEAN’s determination prevented a tie just before halftime as he drove through the G defender’s ferocious checks AND PUT the #4 on the home team side of the scoreboard  @0:25.8.

STEPHEN  blocked 4 of the visitors’ 7 SOGs. The home X men won all 5 F/Os. Clears Landon 2/1; Gonzaga 4/1

HALFTIME BEARS 4 PURPLE EAGLES 3

The 3^rd period was not as exciting. DEVIN STEWARTexhibited his fast ball that almost broke the net after zipping past the goalie @11:13.  The Eye Street boys (eye street is emblazoned on their purple and black jerseys) drew within a goal at 9:09.

SEAN connectedwith RILEY LUGAR to restore his team’s +1 margin @0:35.6

Landon outshot Gonzaga 5 to 4, STEPHEN made 4 saves. GOOZ was 4/1 at X. The two rides were 3/1.

END OF Q3 BEARS 6  PURPLE EAGLES 4

Evidently the G coaches remembered the 4^th Q in 2024 (Bears scored 3 while blanking the Eye Street boys). The Purple Jerseys got the 1^st of 4 last quarter goals at 9:33. They were successful at 7:33, 3:43 and 3:03 (the last tying the score). JOE PAPALIA moved the ball to SEAN @8:40 registering another hat trick in his Century + scoring record.

Gonzaga put 7 SOGs while the home team only got 3. HAYDEN and TALEN SMITH were a collective 3/4 at x. The records of three wins and one fail each reflected the two teams’ clearing performance.

END OF REGULATION BEARS 8 PURPLE EAGLE 8

As Yogi Berra famously said “it’s déjà vu all over again”, the Bears won the faceoff and the ball eventually reached the crosse of JONAS who passed to “dePENN-dable” DEVIN who blasted the winner at 0:13.9. Pandemonium reigned on Tripplett Field to celebrate consecutive O/T wins over Gonzaga.

FINAL SCORE BEARS   9 PURPLE EAGLES 8

FRIDAY AT BULLIS (12-2) under the lights at 7pm