Check out the recaps for SOL boys’ lacrosse team in action Wednesday.
Non-league
COUNCIL ROCK SOUTH 8, PLYMOUTH WHITEMARSH 7
Council Rock South narrowly escaped Plymouth Whitemarsh in a Wednesday night tilt in the rain. Everything looked good for the Golden Hawks who held a 8-1 lead. Then with five minutes left in the third quarter, the Colonials scored twice to narrow the gap 8-3 going into the final frame.
Plymouth Whitemarsh rattled off four more goals to pull to within one, the last goal coming with 28 seconds to go. On the ensuing faceoff, CR South drew a penalty. A final PW shot went wide with four seconds to go. Council Rock was able to snuff out a final shot.
CR South goalie Billy Houser made a season high 19 saves, including six in the fourth quarter to preserve the win.
TJ Shores led CR South in scoring with three goals. Conor McCaffery also had a multi-point game with two goals and one assist.
Plymouth Whitemarsh received two goals apiece from sophomores Jack Cooper and Drew Strohl and senior Ben Backenstose. Junior attack Scott Margulies also scored for the Colonials. Plymouth Whitemarsh’s comeback was led by a stellar second-half defensive effort from Junior LSM/Defender Isaiah Bainbridge, who had four caused turnovers and four ground balls, sophomore defender Alex Frangiosa with two caused turnovers, junior midfielder/FO Luke LaViola, and sophomore goalie Brian DeVitis who notched 12 saves.
Council Rock South (4-1) will host Souderton in Tuesday’s league game. Plymouth Whitemarsh will host Upper Moreland on Tuesday in its SOL opener.
Plymouth Whitemarsh 1-0-2-4 7
Council Rock South 3-4-1-0 8
PENNRIDGE 16, QUAKERTOWN 1
Eleven players contributed scoring and Cole Nitterour turned in a dominant effort at the faceoff X to lead the Rams to the convincing non-league win. Nitterour was 13-for-14 on faceoffs.
The Rams led 6-0 after one quarter and never looked back.
Ryan Carickhoff’s seven-point game included three goals and four assists to lead a balanced Rams’ attack. Frank Fanelli had three goals and three assists, Matt Kriney contributed three goals and one assist, and Matt Seiler had two goals and three assists. Rocco Fanelli added two goals and one assist. Also contributing to the attack were Colin Manville (1 goal), Ryan O’Shea (1 goals), Sean Leuthe (1 goals), Kevin Matthews (2 assists), Carson Tormey (1 assist) and Reid Moyer (1 assist).
Matt Le won the only faceoff he took.
Splitting time in goal for the Rams were Tyler Vandermark (2 saves), Calvin Mcguire (1 save) and Evan Vandermark).
Pennridge (3-1) will travel to North Penn for Tuesday’s SOL opener, and Quakertown (1-4) will host Upper Dublin in its league opener on Tuesday.
Pennridge 8-6-2-0 16
Quakertown 0-0-0-1 1
HARRY S TRUMAN 17, JACK BARRACK ACADEMY 3
The Tigers raced out to an 8-0 halftime lead on their way to the no-doubt-about-it non-league win. Oliver Glover had a huge nine-point game to lead the Tigers’ attack scoring seven goals and assisting on two. He also led his team with 11 ground balls.
Connor Freer added four goals and four ground balls, and Robert Krystofolski and Nate Carroll both had a hat trick. Krystofolski also had two ground balls while Carroll had an assist, three ground balls and one caused turnover. Chas Tuttle scooped up two ground balls.
Jake Talj had a big day at the faceoff X, winning 16 of 21 faceoffs (76 percent). He also had one assist and six ground balls.
Tommy Bryson recorded 17 saves (85 percent save percentage.
Harry S Truman (2-2) will travel to George School Saturday for a non-league game (1 pm).
Harry S Truman 6-2-5-4 17
Jack Barrack 0-0-1-2 3
NORTH PENN 6, HOLY GHOST PREP 5
The visiting Knights opened up a 5-3 halftime lead and took a 6-3 lead into the fourth quarter and then held off a Firebirds’ comeback attempt to earn the tightly contested non-league win.
For the Knights, Luigi Cardone scored two goals, and Caiden Myers had a hand in three, scoring one and assisting on two others. Emerson Morelli scored one goal and assisted on another while AJ D’Ambrosio and Vinnie Montmore each contributed one goal.
Justin Urbinati won six of 10 faceoffs, and Luigi Cardone won two of four.
Connor Howard was credited with eight saves in goal in the win.
North Penn (2-1) will host Pennridge in its SOL opener Tuesday.
North Penn 3-2-1-0 6
Holy Ghost Prep 1-2-0-2 5
COUNCIL ROCK NORTH 10, PENNINGTON PREP 8
This was the story of two halves.
The Indians trailed 7-4 at halftime and regrouped to outscore their visitors 6-1 in the second half to earn the non-league win.
“Senior Andrew Zazoff came up big in the second half when we needed him,” Rock North coach John Fitzpatrick said. “Our defense was outstanding the second half. Logan Atkinson and Tyler Rodowicz were pivotal to the defense.”
Rodowicz, a LSM, had nine ground balls.”
Zazoff’s three-goal, three-assist effort led the Indians. Liam Dudley added three goals and one assist, Chase Klein had two goals and Billy McBride had one goal.
“Freshman Chase Klein’s two goals were big,” Fitzpatrick said.
Council Rock North (3-1, 1-0 SOL) will host Harry S Truman in Tuesday’s SOL opener.
Pennington School 7-1 8
Council Rock North 4-6 10
SPRING-FORD 10, SOUDERTON 8
The visiting Rams led 2-0 after one quarter and took a 7-3 lead into halftime. They upped that lead to 8-4 heading into the final quarter and then fought off a Souderton comeback attempt.
Souderton received contributions up and down its lineup.
Seth Grossman’s three-goal effort led a balanced attack. He also had one ground ball. Jaden Knize and Sean Landis both had two goals. Knize added two ground balls and Landis, three ground balls. Gavin Landis had two assists and one ground ball.
Troy Martin had three caused turnovers, Jackson Hirschman had one caused turnover and two ground balls., Max Ryan had two ground balls, and contributing one ground ball each were Logan Wrubel, Ryan Rothenberger, Trey Bui and Shaun Whitcomb.
Peyton Bannak won 8 of 21 faceoffs. He also had five ground balls.
Matt Malanga recorded eight saves in goal for the Indians.
Souderton (2-2) will travel to Council Rock South for its league opener on Tuesday.
Spring-Ford 2-3-3-2 10
Souderton 0-3-1-4 8
UPPER MERION 15, NESHAMINY 2
Jack McVey and Ryan DeMatteo each scored a goal for the Redskins in Wednesday’s non-league game.
“Jack and Ryan have been consistently competitive on the offensive end during a difficult stretch of games,” coach John Donato said.
Neshaminy (0-3) will host Pennsbury in Tuesday’s SOL opener.
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