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Brandon Fortier, former standout player for Eastside lacrosse club and Whittier College and current HS coach, writes the popular Weekly HS Beat for Boys HS lacrosse during the season.
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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 PLEASE SEND COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, CORRECTIONS, STATISTICS and/or PHOTOS to:
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