Posted on 30 March 2009 by .
Submitted by Langley Lacrosse
Unbeaten Langley picked up its third consecutive Liberty District victory of the 2009 campaign with a 16-8 road-game triumph over Thomas Jefferson Friday night in a steady rain.
Ten different Saxons found the back of the net while four Colonials scored a pair each.
Joey Byrne and Alex Devlin delivered hat-tricks, the second of the season for both Saxon middies. Two goals apiece from Ethan Bailey and Charlie Scharfen and solo goals from Joey Collins, Matt Cronin, Jack Lundeen, Kyle Maida, Ryan Ningard and Troy Scharfen accounted for the balance of scoring for the victorious visitors.
Colonials Liam Carter-Condon, Collin Hennegan, Tom Hillenbrand and Stefan Kowalski were the providers in a losing cause for the home team, now winless in two Liberty District games.
Galen Kuney and Ryan Long split work in goal for the Saxons while Mike LeGore went the distance in net for the Colonials.
The hosts created the first scoring threat in the very early stages, but Saxon goalie Kuney collected the game’s opening shot-on-net with little trouble. Moments later, a second Colonial foray faltered when Langley defender Joey Cortina intervened at the right moment to deflect from danger a crossing pass headed to a Colonial attacker lurking near the crease.
But the Saxons were keen to carry play to their attack half of the field, and for the second game in a row Byrne provided the opener for the Saxons within three minutes of the opening face-off. Collins doubled the Saxon lead near the halfway point of the first quarter.
Carter-Condon pulled one back for the home team with just over a minute left in the quarter, only for Devlin to restore the two-goal margin shortly after with the first of his three on the night, this one unassisted and with his Saxons a man down.
What was shaping up as a relatively close contest in the early stages clearly turned in Langley’s favor in the second quarter. The 3-1 advantage at the start swelled to 10-1 as the Saxons engineered a seven-goal outburst to stamp their authority on the game.
Devlin contributed the stanza’s opening and closing goals to complete his hat-trick. In between, Maida put one past Colonial goalie LeGore, and Charlie Scharfen and Bailey each put two in the net.
The Saxon mainline defensive corps of Cortina, Brendan Dwyer, Tom Robinson and Trevor Shafran stifled the Colonials’ attacking efforts, while reserve longstickmen Robbie Bennett and Kas Semancik caused problems for the hosts in unsettled situations.
The Colonial offense sparked to life during the second half yet was unable to keep pace with Saxon scoring until very late in the game when Carter-Condon, Hillenbrand and Kowalski produced four unanswered goals.
Earlier in the second half, two goals from Hennegan and the first from Kowalski were countered by Byrne’s second and third of the game — the latter with the Saxons shorthanded — and goals from Lundeen, Ningard, Cronin and Troy Scharfen.
The Saxons led 16-4 before the Colonials rallied in the last five minutes to double their goal production for the evening. Though well short of erasing the scoring deficit, the late surge turned what was looking to be a heavy defeat for the home team into a more presentable loss.
Next up on the schedule for both teams are the Stone Bridge Bulldogs (1-1) — this Tuesday at home for the Colonials and the following Thursday away for the Saxons.
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