Sons of Liberty clinch first with a 5-3 win.
"There can only be one first place
team, and that's me, I mean us," said Andy Long.
The red team wanted Fuji and the Green team in the first round of the playoffs, and by golly, that's what they got wiith this win over the Yellow MInutemen. It was 1-1 after one as the two best teams battled for first place. Jon Morin and Dan McCarthy had the goals. Who had them on their Bingo card ? Goals by Flanagan and Melito had red up 3-1 headed to the third. "It was nice to see the 2nd and 3rd line guys get some offense going for us," said Ted Miller. Down by two, the Yellow team took some drastic measures. Rick Armand went back on defense and Sean Steigerwald was taken out of the dog house and put back on forward. It paid off with an immediate goal to cut the lead to 3-2. But the red defense in front of goalie Minsk was just too much for the yellow team. That and goals by JImmy D. and Todd NIchol had Red up 5-2 and that was that. Derek Osbahr scored a goal as the zamboni was coming on the ice for the 5-3 final. The Red Sons of Liberty clinched first place, leaving the Minutemen to flop like a soccer player back into 2nd place. "It's not the result we wanted," said Steigerwald. "But it felt good to be allowed to score again." "I feel bad for our goalie today," said Bob Powell. "I think we allowed somethere between 7 and 8 shots today. That's alot for him." Check out our great new box score here. |
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