Northshore Overwhelms Prep, Wismans and Help from Friends

In what was last year's top game, a re-match this season defining the trajectory of both Seattle Prep and Northshore for the remainder of the season.  After moving up from D2 last season, both state finalists seek validation that they belong where they are in division 1.  Will the Wismans or the Stacey/Schoettler combination be the deciding factor? The answer is, yes- with some help from friends.

Dransfield outlets a save upfield while two men down, and Taylor Wisman catches an outlet out of the box, and goes straight to the goal, off hip. 1-0 Northshore. Another Foster Wisman shot leaves the follow to Dossett who burns his man behind the cage, an scores number 2, in the first two minutes.  Foster Wisman dodges up top and buries one righty. 3-0 Northshore.  Foster Wisman finds Dossett left-handed on the cage and he scores for his second, 4-0. Hadley gets a feed on transition, wraps the cage and feeds Paris who scores, 5-0.  Prep has had under 1 minute of possession in the first quarter, and the wheels are wobbling in the first for the Panthers.  Prep makes a valiant defensive stand with a cold goalie and two-minutes man down to end the first hemorrhaging 5-0.

Scoreless in the first, the second quarter would be the one quarter prep wins.  Prep possessed first, and Mecham hits Schoettler who unleashes a cannon, getting Prep on the board.  Prep answers again, with a feed from Schoettler, who takes advantage of the man-down by finding Slack, and Prep is making it a game, 5-2.  Northshore's answer is Hadley, who hits T. Wisman, who scores a no angle look BTB! Again, Northshore scores, as T. Wiz hits DeLisle, and Northshore leads 7-2. Prep's Christiansen scores after some confusing penalties, in a 2-man EMO, cutting the Northshore lead to 4.  With 4:27 left in the half, contact and transition heats up. Taylor Wisman dodges, switches hands and rips a sidewinder at the pipe, but misses the mark.  With under a minute left in play, Christiansen inbounds the ball, assists Stacey cutting from up top, and Prep adds their fourth of the quarter near the end of the half, maintaining possession because of penalty.  Noticeably absent has been Schoettler, who may still be healing up, and the prep offense has been challenged in their possession.  Schoettler will have to step up if Prep hopes to stay in it. They will ave to clear more effectively, and Northshore will have to reduce the amount of time spent in the box.

The third quarter belonged to Northshore, scoring 7 goals of the 11 goals scored.  The Wiz kids would continue dominate possession and opportunities, even when they aren't theirs.  Taylor Wisman does what he does at least once a game, he causes a ground ball in a ride, and scores on a open net. Prep follows up with a feed from Stacey to Slack and makes it count. The score, 8-5 Northshore.  DeLisle hits Hadley off the face-off, as Prep and Northshore stand knuckle to knuckle swinging in the middle of the ring. Dossett and Chapman finish a four pass transition on the doorstep, as the offensive drought becomes rain.  Schoettler emerges off a face-off, and scores the 6th goal of the quarter by himself, Prep trails 10-7 with 8 minutes remaining.
Taylor to Hadley in Man-up falling to the ground scores number 11. A minute later, Foster Wisman hits Dossett for another one of his three, and Prep finds themselves fighting a 5-goal lead and a man-down situation with 5 minutes remaining.  Hadley connects to T. Wisman, for a well-placed goal. 13-7. Taylor Wisman scores while Northshore is man-down 14-7 with 2 minutes remaining.  Northshore finishes an explosive quarter leading 14-7.

The fourth quarter, is more Northshore.  Northshore's Barclay finds a cutting Taylor Wisman for his 6th goal of the night, 15-7.  Meltzer clears for Prep, and gets to Slack, who tiptoes for the first Prep goal in 13 minutes, with 5:30 remaining.  Foster Wisman scores on a side-arm slider doubling the prep score now, 16-8. Foster Wisman hits Hadley, for the final goal.  Schoettler and Stacey weren't able to become big factors in this game, the Wismans did what they always do.  Dossett and Hadley both had excellent nights as well, contributers who distribute the load from the Wismans necessary to win big games. Considering there were 16 penalties in a pretty clean game, each team wound up playing more settled offense, and extra-man offense than they probably would have liked. There is no more room for speculation about Northshore, except can they be number four?  We will see in one week.

Final Score 17-8 Northshore
NS 5 2 7 3
SP 0 4 3 1

Players of the game

Northshore

T. Wisman 6g2a
Dossett 3g1a
Hadley 3g3a
F. Wisman 2g3a

Prep
Slack 3g in losing effort from the Attack workhorse.