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THE WEEKLY BEAT� March 15-20, 2004
SCOREBOARD
Derek Mills of
Roughriders LC looks to drive to the cage against Garfield in a jamboree
held on Bainbridge
Island just prior to the season. The jamboree included 20 teams from
Idaho, Oregon,
British Columbia, Alberta and Washington.
RECAP
March Madness is
upon us�and I�m not referring to basketball. So much for easing into the
season as week one
was full of buzzer beaters, overtimes, upsets and great performance�
Just lacrosse style!
**The biggest news�Seattle
Prep 9, Bainbridge 8 (OT)�no, that isn�t a misprint.
Bainbridge was
beaten for the first time in just over 2 years. Their last loss came in the
2001 state
championship to Mercer Island. More history�the last time the Spartans lost
in
the regular season,
2000, a 14-7 defeat at the hands of Lakeside.
This game included a
little bit of everything. Bainbridge led 4-3 at halftime. Prep decided to
make a change in
net. Didn�t seem to help as Bainbridge stretched to an 8-5 lead headed into
the 4th.
Prep would rally. Alex Aigner won the majority of face-offs all day long and
this proved
huge as Prep�s
3-goal surge to tie the game came all within the last 5 minutes. Then Aigner
ended it himself
scoring midway through the 1st OT, sparking a wild celebration
seldom seen
from opponents on
Bainbridge Island.
Aigner finished with
2g,1a as did fellow midfielder Adam Sangeorson. Shane O�Neil had a
tremendous game as
well netting 3 goals included a couple lefty lasers to the corner. Darren
Pinney
and Mike Travers
split time in net making 6 and 5 saves respectively.
**Three programs
earned their first "W" ever in their brief history. After an 0-10 season
last year,
Mukilteo started the
year off right notching their first ever win with a 7-5 victory over San
Juan.
San Juan rebounded
well however and earned their first official varsity win by defeating
Eastlake 6-3.
The other Dragons,
from Tacoma, also picked up win #1 with an OT thriller of their own, 6-5
over
North Kitsap.
**Seattle Prep,
Nathan Hale, Mercer Island and Eastside all had great opening weeks.
Each team sits at
2-0 a top the standings in their respective conferences.
** Prep�s big win
wasn�t the only big win of week one. In Division II play, Vashon pulled what
many consider a mild
upset in defeating Garfield 12-11. Vashon defeated Garfield in last year�s
DII quarterfinals,
but graduated several key players. Garfield figured to have the edge, but
Vashon
scored with 4
seconds left in the game to pull out another victory over the Bulldogs.
TOP PERFORMERS
SEATTLE PREP
PANTHERS�Prep 9, Bainbridge 8, not much more needs said.
A win like this
takes a team effort. Congrats to all!
JACK ANDREWS, SR,
Attack, EASTSIDE...In 2001,
Eastside competed at the Division I level.
Then a freshman,
Andrews had the highest scoring game of his young career in a win over Maple
Valley.
Since then Eastside
had moved down to Division II and Andrews had been tearing up the DII ranks.
After
leading the Ravens
to a DII title in '03, Andrews is back in DI and apparently picking up where
he left off...
5 goals and another
victory over Maple Valley. Andrews added another 5 in helping defeat Curtis
(a rematch of last
year�s DII final) for a 10 goal week.
DANE LORAAS, JR,
Attack, VASHON...Lorass started the season with a bang,
ripping the nets
for 7 goals in
Vashon's opening game. Lorass scored his 7th goal with 4 seconds left to
give Vashon a huge
early season victory
over the Bulldogs. He also added 2 assists for a 9pt effort. Can�t start the
season much
better than this!
CORY HILL, Attack,
TACOMA�Cory scored his first career hat-trick, including
the game winner in
sudden-death
overtime, to lead Tacoma to its programs firct victory.
COLBY LEED, Attack,
SAN JUAN�Colby�s story is a lot like Cory�s. Colby also
scored his first
career hat-trick as
part of his 5 goals on the week. He also recorded 20 groundballs in the 2
games.
His efforts helped
lead San Juan to a first ever win.
GAMES TO WATCH
3/23 Lakeside @
Roughriders�First inner-Division match-up of the year and
is also part of the
MBLL standings.
Roughriders played DI opponents tough a year ago. This game should help
gauge the
level between DI and
DII in 2004.
3/23 Seattle Prep @
Nathan Hale�How will Prep react coming off their big
victory? Remember,
Hale beat the
Panthers 11-7 in the second half of last season. One team will take the
early season lead atop
the Sound
Conference.
3/23 Vashon @ S.
Kitsap�SK Wolves finally get their season underway.
Important early season
match-up as both
should contend for the Olympic Conference in DII.
3/25 Issaquah @
Overlake�Two �03 playoff teams had high scoring weeks to
start �04.
Weekly Beat is
written by BRANDON FORTIER
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