Finding themselves down again going into the 4th, the Cats found their offensive stride and netted three unanswered goals to win the game in regulation. Lewis scored left-handed when he drove to the right post and buried an Adcock pass off a foul. Smith scored off of "K-Wood" the play we designed to get him open up top. Zach drew the foul and nailed the shot right-side high. Erlinger had the game winner from 2M off a sweep shot created by a great Kabance set pass.
The win kept us alive for the top spot in the gold bracket, which would be 25th overall. Currently we can finish no worse than 36th overall, which is the best finish JCWP has ever had at JO's.
The bad news is that we got down early again and had to fight back against a weaker team (again). As Coach Dale commented, the crash defense works if all 6 defenders are committed to it. Too often we get lazy and allow the 2M to get the ball or allow a shooter to shoot without.being pressured.
But, we switched to a press in the 4th to get our counter attack going, and the change disrupted South Valley's rhythm leadin to a 4th quarter shutout.
3rd star was Sam Erlinger who knotched two goals, including the game winner.
2nd star was John Lewis for two goals and an assist, one of which was a off-hand shot to the upper corner.
1st star was Sean "Snakes" Sullivan for his 7 saves, at least three of which were game savers in the 4th quarter.
Next up is United from Washington at 11:10am at Stanford. We scrimmaged this team earlier in the week and the boys are very confident that we can beat them.
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