By Chad Reynolds — Lacrosse Contributor
The Concord-Carlisle boys lacrosse team celebrated Senior Night with a pre-game ceremony recognizing graduating team members and their families. After the ceremony, the Patriots took the field against Newton North with a starting lineup that included all seniors.
Photo by Jon Straggas
As the game progressed, Hayes Gardiner showed that the defense came to play with a great clear following a strong defensive stand. Senior Ryan Fivek had several good drives from behind the goal that did not connect — but were a sign of things to come.
The CC offense looked crisp early, confidently moving the ball through their offensive set.
Freshman Alex Fivek got the scoring started with a bounce shot goal off a feed from Eric Palmer. Chris Bono continued to show great potential, winning his first faceoff after the goal.
Eric Palmer scored an extra-man goal off an assist from Ryan Fivek, who then added another tally, putting the Patriots up 3-0.
At the start of the second quarter, Newton North scored its first goal, but goalie Kal Lonergan made a great save on the next opportunity to keep the score at 3-1.
Senior Griffin Niemann had a thrilling takeaway check along the sideline that fired up the Patriots bench.
Mathew Carleton next made a great feed to Fivek, who buried the shot with a little over two minutes to play in the first half.
Ryan Fivek secured the hat trick with a sweeping shot from the top. With Chris Bono continuing to win faceoffs and long stick middie Sam Griswold making takeaway checks, the boys went into halftime up 5-1, firing on all cylinders.
The team effort kept up in the second half, with great ball movement by the offense and Kal Lonergan making saves that kept the visitors from getting back into the game.
Third-quarter goals came from Matthew Carleton and Addison McIntyre.
With five seconds left in the quarter, Derek Labadini threw a half-field pass to first-year Cam Sones, who deftly handled it and dunked the ball into the back of the net, making the score 8-1.
Scoring was quiet in the fourth quarter, but CC was able to rotate several players. Goalie Henry Morgan showed his stuff with a late-quarter one-on-one save. The Tigers added a goal for a final score of 8-2.
With the win, the Patriots move to 9-6 on the season with a busy week ahead.
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