It was a 7:45pm start under the lights @ Don Quinn Field on Thurs May 6 with the East Rochester Bombers hosting the Greece Thunder for their second meeting of a rapidly waning season. Thunder snapped a 4-game slide and advanced their record to 5-5, with an exciting 11-10 OT victory over the ER Bombers to sweep their series.
Name of the game is possession and this game was no exception for Thunder as they won two thirds of the draws 14/21 and beat ER 45-35 in the ground ball department, led by Gino Prestigiacomo (12gb) and Brandon Cheeseman (11gb, 1a). Thunder capitalized on 2 of 6 EMO, whereas ER went only 2 for 9. Funniest play of the game, perhaps the season, would have to be when Cheeseman lifted one of the Bombers sticks sending it some 12 feet in the air with the ball still in the crosse. He is strong like bull.
Greece came out flat with no shots in the first and thus no goals (100% of the shots you don't take don't go in) while watching ER hit the mark 4 times with a pair of goals from Raymond Shalvoy (3g), one from Clayton Vaughn (3g-1a), and one from Darnell Rhodes (1g-1a). Thunder came alive in the second scoring the next 4 goals to even up, one of which was by freshman Anthony Merola (2g), assisted by senior midi Parker Bonis for his first varsity point. Greece then traded goals with ER, but the Bombers had the last word as Vaughn would tally again, assisted by Jordan Michele (1g-3a) and it was 6-5 ER at the half.
ER widened their lead to 9-7 in the third, outscoring Thunder 3-2 on goals by Shalvoy, Vaughn, and Michele. Matt Keough (5a) setup three Thunder goals in the fourth, one by Tyler Gorgione (2g) and a pair by Gino Prestigiacomo (4g-1a), to just one by Nick Reiss (1g-1a) for the Bombers, as regulation expired with the game knotted at 10's.
Two minutes into the first overtime period Dan Vyverberg (3g) netted the winner with a second effort, after taking a feed from Keough at the side of the cage, rolling, firing at close range, scooping his own rebound, and changing his plane to finish over the ER cager's head. The Bombers faithful were crying "in the crease" but the stripes maintained that the ball had broken the plane of the goal mouth before Vyverberg touched the crease, as he was pushed from behind. Liridon Dervisholli (8s/11ga/50mins) and Zach Rudgers (11s/10ga/50mins) played the entire game in the nets for their respective teams, but it was Rudgers going the distance and holding on for the win.
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