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Seattle Prep vs. Issaquah Game Recap
Submitted by walax on Wed, 2006-04-12 20:37.
Just thirty seconds into the game, and Prep is on the board with a Shane Oneill shot top center. The lefty fired one top center on Johnson and the score is 1-0 Prep. Mikey Travers returns to keeper for the Panthers and settles into a groove as the Eagles turn the ball over on passing to give Prep another opportunity that they can't capitalize on.
Issaquah throws the ball away and Prep begins another offensive set as O'Boyle's shot is saved by Johnson. Prep's zone D seems to be working against the Eagles 2-4 offense. Alex Bates gets a feed from Morris and finishes with a bouncer over Travers shoulder after a few minutes of offensive possession. The score is 1-1 with four minutes remaining in the first quarter. Prep turns the ball over to Travis Wright who pushes it up to Campi. Each team turns it over, and Issaquah tries the '88' which gets Wright his first of the night from a Campi assist. Issaquah gets the third consecutive face-off and quickly gets the ball behind to work against Prep as Thayer lays out Campi. Issaquah is given a man-up opportunity and unfortunately turns the ball over to Travers to end the first quarter 2-1 Issaquah.
Just 2:31 into the second, Prep gets two penalties, and as Prep kills the first and gets possession they take a shot but turn it over again as the second penalty expires. Issaquahs's Wright hits Alex Bates who sneaks a shot inside on Travers for the score. Bates has a hat trick after his unassisted take finds the back of the net making the score 4-1 Issaquah.
Prep wins the face-off fighting for the ground ball. Oneill hits Bjorkman for a sweet inside top shelf touch on Johnson making the score 4-2 Eagles. Prep gets possession for a couple of nice shots inside, but seems hurried in their offense and never really sets up; Prep gives the ball up. Prep gets a man-up they cannot capitalize on, and Issaquah tries their hand.
Next Prep has a flurry of movement on the offensive half, and after some great saves to keep the ball in bounds, Prep turns it back to Issaquah who presses the ball but doesn't produce. Issaquah appears to have shaken off the sleep after the first two quarters. At halftime, Issaquah leads 4-2 with 17 ground balls and 10 total shots on cage. Prep rolled a total of 10 ground balls and 4 shots. Prep has to pull the trigger more, and test Johnson. Issaquah will need to settle down and be patient cotrolling the ball more.
Issaquah gets possesslion to start the half as Travers stops a string of shots in four minutes of possession. Prep gets and kills a 30 second penalty as Travers kills Issaquahs possession by picking the ball off from a feed from X. Great defensive stand by Prep as they get several shots on cage from their offense. O'Neill has four shots and is tenacious riding to get the ball back and get into the posession time. O'Neill is after the ground balls fighting longsticks for possession. On a shot from up top, Prep turns the ball over to Issaquah and gives them a given man-up for 30 seconds. Travis wright rings in an unassisted to kill man-up and make the score 5-2.
Prep inbounds a clear and turns the ball over from a longstick trying to get it up the field in traffic. Instead, he wound up feeding an Eagle while trying to keep the ball in bounds. Nick Yaap feeds Defensemen Mason Smith for a score on Travers' doorstep making the score 6-2 with three minutes left in the third. Travers is playing inspired Lacrosse in the cage with a banged up knee and finger. Travers snags another pass but Prep cannot clear again.
Issaquah gets possession and Travers makes a save but throws into a lot of Yellow moving the ball against Prep, but cannot capitalize ending the quarter with the score issaquah 6, Prep 2.
As the fourth quarter begins, Yaap scores on a transition goal 8 seconds in. Travis Wright actually breaks in for an unassisted score. Just 2 minutes in, making the score 8-2. Just three minutes into the fourth quarter, Quah gets possession and moves the ball to Yaap who finds Campi for another low net on Travers who had no help anywhere in sight. Issaquah is starting to grab a hold of this one as Riley Goodman gets the ball to Yaap for number 9 for Issaquah with 8 minutes to play.
Prep gets a man-up and can't capitalize. Issaquah gets another Man-up opportunity and moves the ball to Campi who feeds freshman Jordan Goldstein for number 11. Issaquah has taken over as the face-off and gets another quick goal from a Morris shot fed by Yaap making the score 12-2 with four minutes to play in the game. Prep will be happy to finish this game, 12-2.
Issaquah had 28 GBs and 12 shots, Issaquah had 45 GBs, 23 shots and five different scorers, two notching hat tricks. Travers had a great game as did Wright, and Bates and Yaap.