Thunder settled the score with Batavia, beating them handily by a score of 15-10 at home Tuesday Nite, after letting one slip away 11-10 in OT on the road to Batavia a week and a half ago. With this win Thunder improves their record to 7-5. Thunder won the battle of the ground balls 62-25, led by Brandon Cheeseman with 12, Gino Prestigiacomo with 11 and Dan Vyverberg with 7. Thunder controlled the face-off circle winning 21 of 27 and outshot the Blue Devils 28-22. Anthony Merola was hitting anything that moved, hard, making us all wonder what he had eaten for breakfast. Probably the same thing Matt Keough had, given he could not miss the net as he lit up Theo Hill (who btw leads Section V with 213 saves and is 3rd with a save % of .63) with 7 goals to tie Joe Hallowell (2005) and Dan Vyverberg (2010) Thunder record for most goals in a single game with 7.
Athena senior and vocalist extraordinaire, Katie Edinger, laid down the pre-game anthem live, prompting a series of OMGs from the Batavia stat guys in the press box, one of which allegedly has a sister with the same name, i kid you not - Katie Edinger - although apparently his sister cannot carry a tune. It was like an extreme flashback to Wayne's World listening to those guys' commentary throughout the game. They informed me that the correct enunciation for Theo Hill was THE "O" and also urged me to announce Chip Chapman as Chiptopher Chipman, so I obliged. What's more I was informed by Gloria Lepore that the mic was on and that she could hear everything I was saying, so I proceeded to inform her over the loudspeaker that she needed to report to the parking lot b/c her car was on fire. Fun and games. Back to the game.
Andrew Prestigiacomo (2g-1a) opened up the scoring for Thunder with his first goal of the season, followed by markers from Keough, Vyper (1g-5a), and Gino (2g-1a) in succession before Chip Chapman (6g-2a) broke the seal for the Blue Devils. Keough closed out the first quarter with a sick snipe to the top right corner off the down low feed from Vyper. Kyle Maniace (2g-2a) scored one and set up Chapman with another to equal Thunder's two tallies in the second. It was Vyper feeding the ball out front for both Keough and A-Pres who would each find the mark to make it 7-3 Thunder at the half.
Third quarter saw Chapman and Maniaci combine to notch 3 more goals for Batavia, but Thunder pulled away with five in the twine, two by Merola (3g) and three from hot-hand Keough (7g). Unable to score on numerous attempts at the overhead shot, Vyper thought he would try his hand at an overhead pass instead and as luck would have it he connected with Keough for a goal. Keough picked up the trash and put away the next one on his own and his third in the third was assisted by A-Pres. Merola's markers consisted of a top left corner snipe, assisted by G-Pres, and a solo finish after scooping the ball out of a mosh pit. And so it was 12-6 Thunder going into the final frame.
Chapman finished strong for Batavia with 2+2 in the fourth, assisting on two goals by Will Mulcahy. Thunder kept it real with three more to get-R-dun, as Vyper connected the dots with Keough for the fourth time, G-Pres went han solo, and Merola capped it off at 15 to get Joey Flores his first varisty point with the assist.
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