Garfield vs. Issaquah - OT Final 7-6 Issaquah!
Morris wins the first face-off to give Issaquah possession as they start out in the 1-4, but Garfield stops the drive, and Hoffman drives with a shot, but finds nothing. Gerrard is shutting off Snider, and Garfield has three shots before Garrett saves a Rohrbach shot and clears it out of bounds. Hoffman inbounds the ball, and gets a pick for a save, and before throwing it away again.
Snider inbounds the ball, sweeps hard to the right pipe, and fires a jumpshot with 8:21 to get on the board first. Issy calls a time out to collect, but Hoffman wins the face off. Garfield turns the ball over and gives Issy a one minute, but they kill the penalty and go on a fast break to force the shot on Johnson, but a throw away pass winds up giving it to Issy again. Moving in the 1-4, Alex Bates breaks the silence, on a feed from Travis Wright and scores with 5:09 remaining and we are tied.
Garfield finds the possession again on a save from Montoya and they pick up a one minute man-up on the possession, but can't convert. With thirty seconds left, Issy has the ball, and is clearing down to the attack. Garfield ends the quarter on a fast break, with the score 1-1.
Wright wins the face to start the second, and Issy moves the ball around for the first time before losing on possession behind the cage, gives Garfield the ball and three dangerous shots handled by Johnson.
Issy gets the ball back and starts sweeping at the cage but forces a pass against Snider, but Garfield cannot hang on to the ball. So far, the Garfield defense has done its job, notibly in the first part of this quarter, Montoya. With 7:09 Garfield gets the ball back, and calls a time out to collect themselves.
Garfield gets a man-up on a push just as we start play. Rohrbach has a great cut, and switches hands behind as he rolls right and goes left missing the cage. Backed up, the ball stays Garfield, and the ball finds his way back to Rohrbach who feeds Snider on a sweep as he tallies number 2 over Johnson's head with 6 minutes left.
Garfield has another turn at possession, but turns it over on shots.
Travis wright, who has been doing this all season, drives, splits, and scores making the score tied with 3:09 in the half. Issaquah is pressing now, and again Montoya is the answer after some good ball movement confusing the defense before they can adjust.
Garfield clears the ball, and calls a time out with 23 seconds in the half. Garfield is playing like they have 3 minutes, and can't get a shot off before the end of the half. Garfield has 10 ground balls, and 10 shots to Issy's 6 shots and 12 ground balls which has been the difference.
Issy starts with possession, works for a shot but turns over after a short ownership. Garfield possesses looking for shots and holding the ball at the attack trying to get it to Snider, but after much movement turns it over. Issaquah doesn't get the fast break, but takes advantage of tired middies, and causes a frenzy around the cage that Montoya cannot contain, and Issy adds one making it 3-2 as Brendon Frye splits Montoya at 5:28 in the third.
Garfield gets posession, working from behind, but Johnson saves it. Garfield can't hang onto the ball when they get it back, as Wright breaks the ball down the field, and finds Bates for his second and the score is 4-2.
Snider grabs the face-off, moves it to Rohrbach who makes a sick no look jumper and goes top shelf over the shoulder of his defenseman.
Gerrard won't be held up as he breaks all the way to Montoya's shoulder, and his goal I ruled no good - crease violation. Issy goes offside on the clear, but Garfield can't convert. The Eagles get another transition with Wright as the crowd cheers. Issy turns it over on the shot, and garfield goes pressing the ball fighting for two last second shots, Garret saves blindly and holds back the tie to go into the quarter up 4-3.
Garfield comes out fired up, but Issy makes the ball theirs and Montoya is having an amazing game, but Garfield is just not playing smart ball. Montoya makes another save, and gets the ball to Snider as the Bulldogs call a timeout with possession and 9:12 left to work on taking the lead back. Facing a solid defense, Garfield turns it over dropping the ball on their offensive half giving 2 minutes of possession to Issaquah, still a one point game. Snider finds the ball on an off shot, and buries it past Johnson tying the game at 4 and pushing up the Garfield effort. Issaquah gets possession on the face and has to settle to move the ball down to Yaap, who finds Campi and rings the bell with 5:52. Just 10 seconds later, Yaap finishes one on one with the goalie, and suddenly, Issy is up 6-4 with 5:20 left in the game. Garfield catches a break with a technical push, going man-up.
Snider takes a feed from Hoffman, with 4:41 as he face dodges, and switches left scoring a sick off hip goal and we are 6-5!
Garfield gets possession, and Snider fires away. Maintaining possession, garfield gets another one minute EMO, and turns the ball over on a cross crease feed.
Issaquah gets possession and calls a time out with just 2:07 left in the game. Issaquah tries to possess, but loses it behind the cage and Garfield will have one more shot on the cage. After missing and being shut down, Hoffman fires a a desparation missle with :13 seconds left, we are TIED, and we are going into OVERTIME AGAIN!
Snider gets possession and touches as the Bulldogs call a time out to set up a final assault. Garfield turns the ball over and Issy calls a time out. Possessing for a couple, Montoya stone walls the shot and gets the ball back. I have a picture of this one-wow. Garfield moves the ball and turns it over, and now with a minute left, issy will be man-up for one minute. Montoya and his defense will have to stand tall. Campi breaks his silence wrapping the cage, and rings the bell in OT winning 7-6. Issaquah will advance to the state finals. Johnson had a tremendous game, and Montoya's 17 saves were remarkable. Drew Snider is the story here. Shut off for the entire game by arguably the best defensemen in the league, and still has four goals.
