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No. 10 –– Thomas One-Handed Grab
Prince George’s County, Maryland — Eleanor Roosevelt wide receiver Derrick Thomas pulls in this high pass along the sideline with his left hand while keeping one foot in-bounds. But the Raiders lost to the Pumas, 14-6, in the 4A regional playoffs.

No. 9 –– Wilson Revenge
Northern Region, Virginia — Hayfield senior T.J. Wilson, after taking a fall in the dunk contest an hour prior, gives a facial to division rival and Lake Braddock senior Dom Morra in the final minute of the Beltway’s 88-76 win over the ‘Burbs in the 2009 DigitalSports Showcase on March 21.

Olase-Wow
Montgomery County, Maryland — Springbrook senior Jamal Olasewere
finishes on the fast break through a Walter Johnson would-be
shot-blocker. Olasewere led the Blue Devils to a perfect 27-0
record, a 37-game winning streak and back-to-back 4A state titles, the first repeat since 1968.

P.G. Alley-Oops    1  2  3
Prince George’s County, Maryland — Gwynn Park guard Tion Coates
is on the receiving end of two fourth-quarter alley-oops in the Yellow
Jackets’ 73-51 over the Hornets and, from the P.G. County 4A vs.
3A/2A/1A Late All-Star Game, Bowie guard Alex Rodriguez tosses the ball off the glass to Duval forward Colin Beatty for a one-handed flush.

No. 8 — To All a Good Knight
S.M.A.C., Maryland — On January 7, Thomas Stone trailed Chopticon by two points with two seconds remaining. But Cougar guard Dytania Johnson launch an inbound pass to Stephen Battle beyond half-court, and he flipped it to Leron Knight for the buzzer-beating, game-winning, streak-sparking win, 63-62. Stone won the 4A East and finished 21-5 on the year.

No. 7 –– Saxon Title
Northern Region, Virginia
— After going 0-for-6 historically in Northern Region championships, Langley finally locked up its first regional title, 6-5 in two overtimes, against Robinson. Then, on June 7, it won its first state title, 4-3 in overtime, against Chantilly.

No. 6 — Greatest Show on Surf
Northern Region, Virginia
— The Robinson boys’ swim & dive team won its seventh-straight
Virginia AAA State championship at the Freedom Center in Manassas, Va.
Only Great Bridge wrestling, which won 16 of 17 state championships
from 1989-2005, has longer state-winning streaks in Virginia High
School League history.

No. 5 — D-I Bound
Washington, D.C. Area — Hundreds of area students received athletic scholarships to schools around the country, dozens to Division I programs. Among those are a select few that stand towards the top of national recruiting rankings.

No. 4 –– Mitchell 0.00 ERA in ’09
S.M.A.C., Maryland — McDonough senior Melanie Mitchell pitched
four perfect games in her senior season, pacing the Rams to a 19-0
season and the 2A state title. In her 19 starts, she allowed one total
run — which was unearned. She tied a state-tournament record with 19
strikeouts in the title game, a 4-0 win for McDonough over Landstowne.

No. 3 –– Snowy Spartan March
Loudoun County, Virginia
— Broad Run opened its doors in 1969, but had never won a state football title until this year. Spartan running back T.J. Peeler, who holds a handful of Division I scholarship offers, had a rough first quarter, highlighted by a premature touchdown celebration that resulted in a turnover. But Broad Run picked it up, holding the vaunted Amherst County running game to a season-low 2.9 yards per carry en route to a 14-0 win and its first state championship.

No. 2 –– Moo-Moo
S.M.A.C., Maryland — In a season struck with a September tragedy, the Westlake community rebounded, as did its football team. Led by pint-sized speedster Devon “Moo Moo” Smith, the Wolverines won the 3A state championship, its first in program history.

No. 1 –– National Record for Fletcher
Northern Region, Virginia — Madison senior Sean Fletcher
broke the all-time national high-school record in the 100-yard
butterfly (:47.08) at the Virginia AAA State championships on Saturday.
Almost as impressively, he only had a seven-minute break until he
competed in the 100-yard freestyle final and was .02 second from
breaking the state record in that event. The original record holders
were Nate Dusing (Covington Catholic High School, Texas; University of Texas; 2000 and 2004 Olympics), who set the record in 1997, and Austin Staab (Westerville, Ohio; Stanford) tied it in 2007.

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Honorable Mentions (in no order):
Devlin State-Winner — Saxon senior Alex Devlin scored just 64 seconds into sudden-death overtime to lift Langley to the program’s first-ever AA/AAA state lacrosse title, 4-3, over Chantilly on June 7.
Bailey’s Crossroads
— Langley lacrosse was making its seventh all-time
appearance in the Northern Region championship on May 20 — its fourth under
current coach Earl Brewer
— but had yet to win a title. It took two overtimes, but the Saxons
earned their historic, 6-5 over the Rams when junior attackman Ethan Bailey scored this game-winner with 3:02 left in the second, sudden-victory overtime period.
Savage Ending
— The WCAC championship between Paul VI and Bishop Ireton began at
Boyie Baysox Stadium on Monday, but was postponed through five innings
due to rain. It was continued at Annandale on May 13 and ended in
style. With one out, trailing by a run and the go-ahead run on second
base in the bottom of the seventh inning, Cardinal pinch hitter Brian Lewis hit what, at first, appeared to be a walk-off single. But Panther shortstop Dan Savage
made a leaping catch to rob Lewis, then stomped on second base for the
unassisted, game-ending — league-winning — double play.
Open Waters
— Tied with rival Westfield, 4-4, in the Concorde District title game
on May 8y, defending state-champion Chantilly crashed the cage with :03
seconds left in double overtime. Charger junior middie Joey Marson had his shot stopped by a Bulldog defender, but junior attackman Brendan Waters had his stopped only by the back of the goal. Waters turned 17-years-old just two hours after scoring the district-winning goal.
North Point No-No — Eagle seniors Keith Ryan and Tony Raza-Montes
combined for a no-hitter as North Point beat Great Mills, 9-2, on April 18. The no-hit performance came in the second game of the first
doubleheader in the Eagles’ three-year history.
Jordan-esque — In the fifth overtime between Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Whitman, the Vikings capitalize on a last-second counterattack when Patrick Slawta finds Jordan Karr for a goal and an 8-7 win on March 31.
Doran Doran — Wootton sophomore attackman Christopher Doran nets this behind-the-head
goal as the Patriots to lock up a 10-3 win over the Bulldogs on March 27.

No. 10 –– Big Mac
Northern Region, Virginia
— In the Battle of the Bulldogs, sophomore Jess McNamara hit a
walk-off, solo home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift
Westfield over Stone Bridge, 3-2, on April 25. The Fairfax County version of the
Bulldogs improved to 11-3 on the year a capped an impressive three-win
week. Westfield beat O’Connell, 5-3 on the previous Saturday, and
Concorde District rivals Oakton and Robinson, 8-2 on Wednesday and
16-10 on Thursday, respectively.

No. 9 –– Summer of Sam
Northern Region, Virginia
— Robinson had taken the lead seven minutes prior in the Northern
Region boys’ soccer championship against Westfield, when junior
goalkeeper Samir Badr
lined up for this free kick 68 yards from goal in the 57th minute. Badr
played a long ball into the mixer 10 yards in front of the Bulldog net
and it one-hopped through untouched. The ball bounced into the back of
the goal for a 68-yard goal and what proved the back-breaking blow in
the Rams’ 3-0 regional title win.


No. 8 –– Wahl’k-Off
Northern Region, Virginia
— West Springfield junior ace Bobby Wahl
blew a two-run lead to rival South County just two innings before he
came to the plate to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning in a tie
game. Three pitches into his at-bat, Wahl had a Wahl’k-off solo home
run to lift the Spartans over the Stallions, 4-3, on April 18.

No. 7 –– ClayBorne to Run
Montgomery County, Maryland — Damascus sophomore Cassie Clayborne
hit an inside-the-park grand slam as part of her team’s 10-2 win over
Blair. The Hornets’ current No. 5-hitter was in the lead-off spot last
season and demonstrated both her speed and power.

No. 6 –– Bounding Benton
S.M.A.C., Maryland — North Point senior Tristan Benton
shattered the previous SMAC meet record in the high jump — which was
6-feet, 6-inches — by leaping 6’9″ at Great Mills. He also
finished second in the long jump and high jump. Benton, a University of
Maryland commit, set his outdoor personal record on April 18 at the
Waldorf Track Classic when he leapt 6’10”, the best mark in the state
this year. He won the 2A South Region and Maryland State meets at 6’8″.

No. 5 –– Isaiah 40:
Independent Schools, D.C. — Isaiah 40:31 says, “… They will bear you up on wings like eagles…” Montrose Christian senior Isaiah Armwood
showed that kind of ornithological altitude — a 40-inch vertical —
by jumping over seven people in the Capital Classic Dunk Contest at
Gonzaga on April 8. Armwood’s dunk was named No. 1 in the SportsCenter Top 10 on the next day.

No. 4 –– Broad Run Twin Titles
Loudoun County, Virginia
— The
Spartans held their own private jamboree at Radford on State Championship Sunday. Broad Run softball beat Tunstall on a walk-off double by junior Jenn Soroka. And soccer, which allowed four goals in 24 games this season, beat Hidden Valley, 3-0. Spartan senior Caitlin Hunter set VHSL records with 20 shutouts this season and 63 for her career.

No. 3 –– Alligator Roll
Northern Region, Virginia
— Madison trailed unbeaten, fourth-ranked Langley 9-8 with :06.0 left when Warhawk middie Mike McCool had a good look at goal after a steal in the Saxon end. McCool’s shot was blocked but Madison middie Gordon Bailey
scooped the loose ball with his back to the goal and — in one motion
— rolled and flipped it through the Langley defense to tie the game
and force overtime. The Warhawks won, 10-9, in overtime on a goal by
attack Mike Hayden to deliver the Saxons their first loss on April 28.

No. 2 –– Three Mile Eiland
Prince George’s County, Maryland — Trailing by two runs to Surrattsville and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning, Gwynn Park senior 1B Reggie Eiland crushed this offering over the left-field wall for a walk-off grand slam and an 11-9, Yellow Jacket win on April 17.

No. 1 –– Mitchell 0.00 ERA in ’09
S.M.A.C., Maryland — McDonough senior Melanie Mitchell pitched four perfect games in her senior season, pacing the Rams to a 19-0 season and the 2A state title. In her 19 starts, she allowed one total run — which was unearned. She tied a state-tournament record with 19 strikeouts in the title game, a 4-0 win for McDonough over Landstowne.

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By Angela Watts
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** Click the links to the left to access a photo gallery and dozens of highlights from Sunday’s championship game!

Hundreds of elated Langley fans poured out of the bleachers at Westfield High School at nearly 11 p.m. Sunday night and flocked to the fence line where — as they hooted, hollered and high-fived — a loud chant of “We want the Chief!” broke out.

They got him alright — just when they needed him most.

Saxon senior midfielder Alex Devlin, nicknamed the Chief by his teammates, delivered the game-winning goal just 1 minute, 4 seconds into a sudden-death overtime period to lift Langley to a 4-3 victory over Chantilly and its first Virginia AA/AAA state championship in program history.

The overtime heroics not only left the Saxons fans clamoring for the fiery red head, whose hair was cut into a fresh Mohawk that matched many of his teammates, but also seeking his autograph.

Devlin obliged, leaning over the fence after all of the trophies had been awarded and dozens of pictures had been taken to sign the T-shirts and jerseys of the Langley faithful that had patiently waiting for their moment to congratulate him.

“I’m speechless, for once in my life,” said longtime Langley Coach Earl Brewer, who was overcome with emotion. “Alex deserved to score the winning goal. He’s been our go-to guy all year, really, and he’s a wonderful young man.

“I mean, they call him the Chief for a reason. He’s just the Chief. He’s the man.”

Goals were hard to come by for both teams in this defensive battle, as both Chantilly senior goalie Derek Kegerreis (eight saves) and Langley senior goalie Galen Kuney (six) shined behind their fellow defenders. But a well-placed shot by Charger senior midfielder Mike Turpyn with 1:11 remaining in regulation knotted the score at 3.

It was somewhat poetic considering Chantilly sophomore midfielder Devon Westerman had scored what appeared to be the game-tying shot earlier in the fourth quarter only to have it waived off because Charger Coach Kevin Broderick had called time out a split-second before Westerman released the ball.

“It was just a battle out there,” Brewer said. “I could never have predicted it would be such a low-scoring game.

“When they got that goal at the end I thought the momentum was going their way a little bit. But our kids have been like this all year. No matter if we’ve been down or been up, they’ve just fought, fought, fought.”

Langley senior midfielder Matt Cronin won the face-off to start the overtime period, and as soon as junior defender Thomas Robinson advanced the ball into Chantilly’s half of the field Brewer signaled for a time out. The plan was simple: Put the ball in Devlin’s hands.

“We wanted to clear the side for Alex and let him go one-on-one,” Brewer said. “He got off a good shot the first time, but I think it just went wide.”

The Saxons maintained possession after Devlin’s miss-fire, and both junior attacker Ethan Bailey and senior attacker Kyle Maida took shots of their own before they were able to feed the ball back to Devlin.

Working from the right side, Devlin retreated and brought the ball back out to mid-field so his offense could reset. He then immediately darted back to his right, worked his way to the outside shoulder of his defender and bounced in a shot that found the back right corner of the net.

“I was going in and, I mean, he’s a terrific goalie so I knew I had to put almost a perfect shot on,” Devlin said. “And I did, and it went it.”

Devlin raced behind the goal as pandemonium erupted in the home stands and then leapt into the outstretched arms of senior attacker Ryan Ningard. Senior midfielder Jeremy Kuney and Bailey were next to join the pile as the entire Saxon team shredded their gloves and masks and flung their sticks high in the air as they raced to join the celebration.

“I was standing on the crease and I didn’t even see the shot go in,” Jeremy Kuney said. “I just saw Alex’s arms go up in the air … and it was unbelievable. I didn’t even know how to react. It just feels like a first time for everything right now. It’s really awesome.

“And for our fans to come out in such force tonight and to be so loud and so supportive … it was great to win a state championship for them.”

Brewer whole-heartedly agreed.

“I feel so good for our student body,” he said, beaming. “They were amazing up there tonight. I feel so proud of our school, so proud.

“I’m just so happy. I think I need to hug somebody!”

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Chantilly (16-3)     1  2  (0) — 3
Langley (21-1)       2  1  (1) — 4

Goals — Chantilly: Danny Abatemarco, Jared Golden, Mike Turpyn; Langley: Ethan Bailey, Joey Byrne, Alex Devlin, Ryan Ningard.

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Assistant GM, Washington D.C. Metro Area

** Click the links to the left to access hundreds of photos and dozens of video highlights from Wednesday’s semifinal game.

Robinson vs. Chantilly Highlights
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Broad Run Coach Dave Forman graciously clasped the hand of longtime Langley Coach Earl Brewer Wednesday evening at Westfield High School and, looking dead in his eye, smiled genuinely.

Then, with a quick nod, Forman said the one thing that every Saxon fan is hoping is true: “I think this is your year.”

It sure has been so far.

Langley, which two weeks ago claimed its first Northern Region title in program history, defeated Broad Run, 15-9, on Wednesday night at Westfield to advance to its first Virginia AA/AAA state championship lacrosse game in school history.

“I think this is about so much more than just lacrosse,” Brewer said. “I think it means a lot to this school … to Langley. If we can win this, I mean, our school is known for really one thing: Academics. We’re a smart school. We have great people and great teachers and a great administration, but boy if we could win a major state championship it would be huge for our school.

“And this is just the group that can do it. They’ve worked hard from Day 1; I love ’em. I love ’em. They drive me crazy sometimes, but they’re like my own kids at home. I wouldn’t trade them for anybody.’

The Saxons will face the winner of the second semifinal between Chantilly and Robinson, which was postponed Wednesday due to lightning and severe rain. Chantilly held a 5-3 lead over Robinson at halftime Wednesday night in the second game of the semifinal doubleheader when the two teams were sent into the school because of lightning. After a 61-minute delay the game was officially postponed and has yet to be rescheduled.

The championship game, however, is set for 8 p.m. on Saturday at Westfield. The boys’ lacrosse champion will be the last crowned at the 2009 Spring Jubilee, where state champions will be determined Saturday in girls’ soccer, boys’ soccer, baseball, softball, girls’ lacrosse and boys’ lacrosse.

“Listen to me, all you have to do now is go 1-0, right?” Brewer said to his players after the semifinal victory. “All you’ve got to do is go 1-0 and you’ll be state champions.”

To get there the Saxons first had to dispose of the Spartans, and they took little time Wednesday night establishing their intent.

Langley scored three goals in the games’ first 3 minutes, 14 seconds on consecutive shots by junior defender Thomas Robinson, senior midfielder Alex Devlin and senior attacker Ryan Ningard. The Saxons added a fourth unanswered goal by senior midfielder Matt Cronin with 6:28 to play in the first quarter before the Spartans ever knew what hit them.

The Spartans fought back, narrowing the gap to 4-3 with 1:17 remaining in the opening period on two goals from senior midfielder Tim Sanders and another from senior attacker Kyle Ward, but Langley never relinquished its lead.

“I think you saw that the difference today may have been conditioning,” Brewer said. “We could run some more bodies at them, and that was a big difference. I credit my assistant coaches to subbing guys in-and-out at the right time.”

The Saxons could also credit the defensive play of Robinson, senior Trevor Shafran and senior goalie Galen Kuney, who were superb throughout the game. So, too, were Ningard and junior attacker Ethan Bailey who led Langley with five and four goals, respectively. The only other multiple-scorer for the Saxons was and junior midfielder Joey Byrne with two.

“Ningard’s just the Energizer Bunny, isn’t he?” Brewer said with a laugh. “He just never stops. At the end there I really wanted us to **** the rest of the time, but he runs in there and shoots and scores another goal. He just doesn’t have an off-switch. It drives you nutty sometimes, but he’s a great kid.”

Ward paced Broad Run with a team-high four goals — the last of which found its way to the back of the net with just :01 second left in the game — while Sanders added three scores for the Spartans.

But this was the Saxons’ day. And, if predictions hold true, it just might be their year, too.

“It would mean the world to us not only to get the regional title but to get a state championship,” Devlin said. “That’s all we’re looking for right now. Since the beginning of the season we all knew, in the back of our minds, that this was our goal. But none of us said it. It was one game at a time. That’s how we took it.

“Now, that one game we wanted is finally here.”

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VHSL Boys’ Lacrosse Championship History

2006 — Robinson 11, Oakton 6
2007 — Robinson 11, Westfield 3
2008 — Chantilly 12, Oakton 5
2009 — Langley vs. Robinson/Chantilly winner, 8 p.m. Saturday at Westfield High School

GAME 1
Broad Run       3  1  4  1 —  9
Langley           5  2  6  2 — 15

Goals: Broad Run — Kyle Ward 4, Tim Sanders 3, Nick Khouri, Andrew Londos; Langley — Ryan Ningard 5, Ethan Bailey 4, Joey Byrne 2, Matt Cronin, Alex Devlin, Jack Lundeen, Thomas Robinson.

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A four-goal game for Langley attackman Ethan Bailey — along with a hat-trick from attackman Ryan Ningard and a grudging defense — paced the industrious Saxons to a 14-4 win over the Blackhawks of Brooke Point High School in a Virginia AA/AAA state quarterfinal Saturday at Langley. 

In all, seven Saxons registered goals in an encounter that matched the top-seed Northern Region boys lacrosse champions from Langley with the Northwest Region third-seed squad from Stafford.   

In addition to Bailey and Ningard, attackman Kyle Maida, midfielders Joey Byrne and Charlie Scharfen, and defenders Brendan Dwyer and Thomas Robinson contributed goals in what was the 10th time this season at least seven different Saxons scored in a single game.

Attackmen Johnny Daugherty and Alan Jones, as well as midfielders Seth Hodgen and Paul Hummer, each provided a goal for the Blackhawks, which ended their prosperous season with a respectable 14-7 record.

Langley (19-1) advances to the state semifinals, where it will face Broad Run (16-3) at 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

The Spartans were winners over Loudoun Valley (17-3) in a state quarterfinal match-up on Saturday that featured Loudoun County rivals. The Saxons faced the Spartans of Broad Run previously this year in the West Springfield Spring Break tournament, with Langley earning a 12-7 victory in the early April battle.

The Saxons did not wait long to serve notice of their intentions to command the afternoon engagement when Dwyer delivered his first goal of the season less than a minute from the opening face-off. This early warning sign for the visitors grew out of the very first scoring bid of the contest, from Brooke Point, which was saved comfortably by Langley goalie Galen Kuney. Kuney then promptly cleared the ball to Dwyer stationed at the mid-line, from where the defender ventured into attack and grabbed the quick score for the hosts.

Langley forged a 5-2 advantage by the end of the first quarter then largely closed out negotiations for the win during a second quarter that saw the Saxons doubling their goal production while shutting out the Blackhawks.   The five-goal burst was completed by a second longpole score — this from Robinson — who exploited a gap in the Brooke Point defensive line to fire in an unassisted goal to give his side an eight-goal lead going into half time.    

Brooke Point did add single goals early in the third and fourth quarters, but Langley replied with a pair later in each quarter and a stifling defense to secure the winning position.
 
Kuney was seldom bothered with Blackhawk shooting efforts but was active in initiating fast breaks with two such counter attacks leading to Langley scores, including Dwyer’s game-opener. Brooke Point goalie Marc Wilander was by far the busier of the goalies, and while he did well on several occasions coming up with fine saves, he had to deal with the Saxons enjoying just too many more promising, close-in looks at goal than the Blackhawk netminder would have liked his defenders to permit.

Brooke Point did offer a swift reply in the early going when Hummer maneuvered from behind the cage and took advantage of his marker Alex Devlin slipping in back of the net. The brief moment of freedom allowed Hummer to gain favorable shooting position for firing in past Kuney to tie the score at 1 a mere 85 seconds after Dwyer had scored.

But just a minute later Bailey snapped in a shot from 12 yards to restore the lead for Langley. Then, just after the ensuing face-off when Kuney saved a Blackhawk shot, the Saxon goalie worked another quick transition, this time through his brother, midfielder Jeremy Kuney, who in turn set up Bailey for his second goal of the game less than four minutes into the affair.

Ningard delighted the home fans with a truly workmanlike goal near the half-way point of the opening quarter when he tracked back into defensive duties when it appeared the Blackhawks were mounting a fast break assault. The pacey Ningard was handsomely rewarded for his hustle when he created a turnover deep in the Langley defensive zone, gained possession and returned to the attack using open space to his advantage to drive home an unassisted goal at the end of a long sprint.

Bailey made an initial bid for completing a first-quarter hat-trick with about 4 minutes left in the quarter but his vicious shot got no closer to goal than Wilander’s goalie mask, from which the ball deflected well away from danger outside of the Blackhawk goalie’s crease area.

Bailey did get his third at the 2:25 mark when Wilander made a partial save on the Langley attacker’s shot but then failed to get the handle on the ball, which slipped through his grasp and settled into the net for the Saxon’s fifth goal of the game.  

Jones pulled one back for Brooke Point with just under two minutes remaining in the quarter to give the Blackhawks some encouragement when he snuck a low-level shot past Kuney from close range to narrow their deficit to 5-2.

The second quarter at its start brought an illegal stick violation, and the dreaded three-minute, non-releasable penalty, for the trailing visitors. The Brooke Point main defensive corps of Kevin McGlade, Alex Williams and Gerald Gooden did manage to limit Langley scoring during its man-down challenge to only a single goal by Bailey, one launched from close range after a patient build-up with the extra man.

But this was just the beginning of a five-goal second quarter offensive from the hosts that saw Ningard scoring off of an assisting pass by Bailey about three minutes after the penalty had expired, then Maida supplying a pair within 52 seconds — the first unassisted, and the second coming by way of a feed-in pass from midfielder Jack Curry that found the scorer unguarded three yards out from Wilander’s crease line. Robinson then supplied his goal with only :33 seconds left in the first half.

Daugherty got on the board to open second half play, but the Saxons replied with goals by Scharfen and Byrne.

Scharfen drilled one in after snatching an errant clearing pass by a Blackhawk defender under pressure from Langley attackers deep in the Brooke Point defensive zone. Scharfen made no mistake when he was allowed to venture closer to goal and blast in with little interference from the tiring Blackhawk defenders.

Byrne then used a bounce shot from about eight yards to stake Langley to a 12-3 lead before the end of the third quarter.

The Blackhawks opened the scoring for the final quarter by way of Hodgen, who already had been enjoying a modest edge in face-off play for the afternoon. A feed-in pass from Daugherty found Hodgen situated well and clear about 10 yards out to deposit into the net, a relatively seldom event for the face-off specialist.

But the Saxons completed the scoring for the day when Byrne furnished his second of the game about five minutes into the fourth quarter and Ningard completed his hat-trick with less than 3 minutes of life remaining to the playoff encounter.

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