The Greece Athena/Odyssey Thunder Varsity Boys Lacrosse team handed an 8-7 decision to the East Rochester Bombers, Tuesday April 6th, on the rain-soaked natural turf at Athena Stadium. After spending close to an hour in the broadcast booth garage, waiting out the rain, the Thundermen took to the field to watch Odyssey Alum Amanda Sherry part the skies and bring a little sunshine with her amazing anthem :)
Greece came out flat as a pancake as it took a while to adjust to the zone defense that ER was throwing at them, but they still managed to take an early command, 3-1 end of 1, on a pair of goals by Anthony Merola and one by Matt Keough, assisted by Nick Caracci, Tyler Gorgione, and Dan Vyverberg.
They widened their lead to 6-2 at the half with three tallies by Vyverberg (3g-1a), assisted twice by Keough (1g-2a) with a give-go from X and once by Gorgione (2a), who won a scrum near midfield to advance the ball to Vyper.
Bombers came to play in the second half with three quick goals to draw near at 6-5. Gino Prestigiacomo countered for Thunder with a face dodge and upstairs finish to make it 7-5. Bombers countered his counter to make it 7-6 Thunder at the end of three.
Jordan Michele tied it up for the Bombers with 10.26 to go in the game and then it turned into a defensive battle not unlike the Final Four Championship of the nite prior. Brandon Cheeseman (8gb, 1a) won the most important ground ball of the game late in the final quarter as he legged it out and hit Anthony Merola (3g) with a fast break to set up the winner by Merola at the 2.11 mark.
Thunder was a few tactical errors shy of really opening things up, but a win is a win and they happily advanced their MC3 record to 2-1 (3-1 overall) with this nail biter. Zach Rudgers (12s/7ga/48 mins) played extremely well in the cage to keep Thunder in the game. Dan Vyverberg led the scoring with 4 points, while Gino Prestigiacomo (1g, 9gb) won his fair share of face offs and ground balls. Thunder played the body well tonight - joining the hit parade for Thunder were Anthony Merola, Joe Trimboli, Tim Chase (varsity debut) and Nick "Caracci-Crunch" Caracci.
One TEAM, One FIGHT, One FAMILY. Go THUNDER. There is no OTHER!!!
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