Whoa! both games decided with less than a minute to go AND Team Dirka with their 1st victory of the season!<\/p>\n
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In the early game Team Jacquie got off to a quick start, getting the loose ball right off the face off and putting it in to the net at the 10s mark. Then they did it again less than a minute later. \ud83d\ude44 Maybe the goalie should have warmed up a bit and not relied on the hot arena for “warm up”. Team Jacquie scored again and it looked like it was going to be a long night for the Team Lia bench.\u00a0 But, TeamL did not roll over and give up – first one goal, then another and another and the game was tied. A last minute goal put TeamJ in the lead at the end of the 1st period 4-3. In the 2nd Team Lia tied it at 4 before Team Jacquie popped in 2 quick goals to up their lead to 2. Team Lia scored a couple of goals late in the period to tie the game again – the 2nd period ended with the teams tied at 6. In the 3rd, Team Jacquie pulled ahead by 1 early and then tried to hold off a hard charging Team Lia. With a couple of minutes left TeamL scored to tie it up and it looked like both teams would settle for a tie in the stifling heat…but NO! … a turnover and a couple of passes and the ball was in the net with under a minute to play – Team Lia was ahead for the first and only time in the game – a face off and TeamL possession and the time ran out on an exciting game – Team Lia 8 – Team Jacquie 7. A great game – good lacrosse, exciting back and forth…lots of fun.<\/p>\n
In the late game both teams were short staffed and had to pick up mercenaries from the early game. For the first 2 periods Team Sharley played a controlled precision game ending the 1st period leading 3-1 and the 2nd 5-2. An early goal in the 3rd and things were looking good for a TeamS victory….but it was not to be. A couple of intercepted passes leading to Team Dirka goals and the lead was cut to 2 with time running out. Less than 3 minutes to go – ball control and time management should be enough! right? right? Maybe not…. a picked off pass and the lead is cut to one goal. There is a slight premonition of Team Sharley letting victory slip through their fingers, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. With less than a minute to go, an unneeded early shot (bad!) but a pickup of the loose ball (good!) and another unneeded shot (bad!) and another rebound pickup (GOOD!) – just run out the time and everything will be good….but NOOOO – another unneeded shot that hits a defender…sigh…\u00a0 A TeamD penalty shot goal and it’s tied at 7 and Team Dirka still on the power play. Team Dirka wins the face off, presses, shoots wide!, the ball goes to the corner with time running out, but a quick pickup and a pass out to the shooter’s position and a last second desperation shot….it trickles in…. GOALLLLLL! 0.8s on the clock! Team Dirka wins their 1st game of the season Team Dirka 7 – Team Sharley 6. A heart breaker game for Team Sharley but an uplifting win for Team Dirka.<\/p>\n
On to Week #12, the end of the fourth round robin, Wednesday July 24, 2019, Nichols Arena<\/p>\n
Team Sharley\u00a0 vs.\u00a0 Team Lia\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a08:00pm\u00a0 –\u00a0 9:00pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n Team Dirka\u00a0 vs.\u00a0 Team Jacquie\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09:00pm\u00a0 –\u00a0 10:00pm.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n See you all next week.<\/p>\n G2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whoa! both games decided with less than a minute to go AND Team Dirka with their 1st victory of the season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.londonmasterslacrosse.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}