With a program best 10-6 regular season record, the Greece Athena/Odyssey Thunder Boys Lacrosse team earned themselves the #6 seed to the 2010 Section Five Class A Tournament, which landed them a spot in the quarterfinals against the #3 seeded Penfield Patriots (seeds 7 thru 10 had to win an out bracket game to get in). While it was a good feeling advancing directly to the quarters on our regular season play, it was not a very good feeling taking an 18-4 beating on the brand new turf field at Penfield High School and bowing out early once again. What are we doing wrong? All over the county there are turf fields popping up and we can't even pass a budget. Does anyone know Mr. Golisano?
For a quarter and a half, the men in purple were mesmerized, as the Patriots took the lead with eight consecutive fancy finishes. And then a little voice was heard down in Thunder-who-ville. Why it was little Tyler-Giorgionne-who, dodging a longpole, stepping in and burying an overhand rip to stop the bleeding at the 7:10 mark in the second. Apparently, Thunder did not apply enough pressure though, as the bleeding started right back up and the Patriots racked up eight more unanswered before the end of the third.
Steve Cole (1s/2ga/12mins) came in to relieve Zach Rudgers (4s/16ga/36mins) for the final twelve, which Thunder managed to win 3-2, on goals by Andrew Prestigiacomo, Anthony Crawford, and Dan Vyverberg (1g-1a), as the clock ran. A-Pres' goal was unassisted as he drove from top of the box, dodged the D and finished @ 9:30 in 4th to wake everyone up. Then along came freshman Anthony Crawford, wasting no time netting his first varsity goal, in this his varsity debut, with a snipe over the Patriots keeper's shoulder, assisted by Vyper with a feed from X. Vyper would eventually get his own on a fast break from Cheese with just 16 secs to go in the game. And so, Thunder finishes a respectable 10-7, as Penfield moves on to the semifinals.
Thunder may have lost the game, but they won a lot of respect. Take Brandon Cheeseman who led both teams with 9gb in the contest and laid out two Patriots with shoulder checks, one being the Pats keeper, Jamie Solomon, wandering into Thunder territory, ball in tow. Cheeseman went to the box for unnecessary roughness both times, but these were not cheap hits, it was simply a matter of height/weight ratios. And then there was midfielder Joe Trimboli (5gb), barrelling down field and steamrolling everyone in his path like a train truck a rollin all nite long. Ryan "Yao-Ming" Walsh was up from JV for his varsity debut and made some solid contibutions legging the ball downfield along with Keenan Mahoney (5gb) who was pulled up several games ago to bolster the depleted varsity D-corps.
Scoring leaders for Penfield were 22-Alex Miles (5g-1a), 10-Tucker Nelson (4g), and 4-Dan O'Brien (3g-2a). Playing well in (and out of) the cage for Penfield was Jamie Solomon (5s/1ga/36mins). Although, Penfield would eventually fall to Pittsford in the semifinals, ironically on the short end of the same 18-4 score they handed Thunder in the quarters. Perhaps we'll get another crack at 'em next year!
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