Check out the recaps for SOL boys’ lacrosse teams in action Tuesday. Abington/New Hope-Solebury photos provided courtesy of Karla Donohoe. Check back for a gallery of photos: https://solsports.zenfolio.com/f900124885
SOL NATIONAL CONFERENCE
PENNSBURY 13, NORTH PENN 12 (OT)
Mike DeZutel’s overtime goal propelled the Falcons to the dramatic road win over the Knights.
“We won the faceoff in overtime, we had possession – we did not call a timeout,” Pennsbury coach Dean Curtis said. “I let our guys plays.
“We have a set that we run in that situation, and Mike DeZutel did a great job coming off a pick and finished it with a sweep across the middle. It was good to see the kids fight back.”
Kolby Ranniello turned in a monster 10-point effort to lead the Falcons, scoring seven goals and assisting on three others. Included in his big night was the 100th point of his career.
“Kolby is not only our point leader, but he’s also our emotional leader,” Curtis said. “He plays hard, and the guys respond really well to him in terms of his physical play. His leadership on the field is super important. He’s not a captain, but he’s definitely one of our senior leaders that everyone trusts and respects.”
For the better part of Tuesday’s game, the Falcons appeared to be in command. They took a 7-5 lead into halftime and led 11-8 heading into the fourth quarter when the Knights staged a rally, outscoring their visitors 4-1 to send the game to OT. North Penn scored the equalizer with less than two minutes remaining.
“We actually had possession with 15 seconds left, and they did a good job stopping us,” Curtis said. “North Penn scored first, and we came back and took the lead until they tied it at the end. These kids have played together for so long, and just having the opportunity to rally together…
“I give it to North Penn. They played a great fourth quarter. We had a three-point lead, we had the ball a lot, and they executed when they had to in order to get back in the game. I give them a lot of credit. Their young guy stepped up. Jayden Davenport is a freshman, and he played really well. Their main guys did what they had to do to come back.”
In addition to Rannniello, John Curtis had two goals and three assists. DeZutel finished with two goals and two assists and won one of two faceoffs. Brad Hill added a pair of goals and also was credited with 12 ground balls. Hill won 16 of 26 faceoffs.
“He won the faceoff going into overtime, and he also won the faceoff after they tied the game,” Curtis said of Hill.
Also for Pennsbury, Logan Thome had one assist. Jon Vereb was credited with five saves in goal for the Falcons.
For the Knights, Jayden Davenport’s four goals led the attack. Caiden Myers had a five-point game with three goals and two assists while Ryan Bocklett had three goals and one assist. Colin Ponyi added a goal and an assist, and Emerson Morrelli had one goal.
Also for the Knights, Joe Morrow won eight faceoffs, and Luigi Cardone won four.
Connor Howard had eight saves in goal for the Knights.
“I’ll give Rick and his team credit,” Curtis said. “If you look at their scores, you would have thought this should be an easy victory for Pennsbury, but it’s April and the kids who are freshmen are almost sophomores. I give them a ton of credit for learning from games early in the season and bringing all that and playing one of the best games they’ve played all season.”
Pennsbury (6-4, 4-2 SOL) will travel to Central Bucks West Thursday for a 7 p.m. game, and North Penn (4-8, 1-6) will be on the road at Council Rock South on Thursday (7pm).
Pennsbury 3-4-4-1-1 13
North Penn 2-3-3-4-0 12
PENNRIDGE 13, CENTRAL BUCKS EAST 7
The visiting Rams raced out of the gate to a 7-0 halftime lead on their way to a win that kept them tied with Central Bucks West atop the conference standings.
The key to the Rams’ strong start, according to coach Chris Pianko, was hardly a secret.
“As it has been a lot this year, Ben Souder winning faceoffs,” the Rams’ coach said. “Today he also did a great job handling the pressure East put on him. East has some very good poles, and he had to handle a lot of pressure from them.
“Our offense also did a great job handling the pressure and getting their heads up to find the open man. We had great ball movement and teamwork all around.”
Souder won 18 of 24 faceoffs.
On attack, Frank Fanelli led the way with four goals and one assist. Ryan Carickhoff added a hat trick while Levi Souder contributed two goals and two assists. Matt Seiler had two goals and one assist, and Matt Kriney contributed one goal and two assists. Drew Ferguson added one goal and Kevin Matthews, one assist.
Tyler Vandermark was credited with 14 saves in goal in the winning effort.
For the Patriots, sophomore Thomas Williams led the attack with five goals. Ryan Atkinson added a goal and two ground balls while Adam Volm had one goal and one assist. Matthew Bowen had an assist and one ground ball. David Brown led the defense with five caused turnovers, one ground ball and one assist. Ethan Greenlee added three caused turnovers, one ground ball and one assist. Chris Funston was credited with three caused turnovers and three ground balls, and Tristan Smith had one caused turnover and two ground balls. Adding one ground ball each were Patrick Coleman, Zacary Ramey and Blake Bishop.
Pennridge (11-1, 6-0 SOL) will travel to Council Rock North for a key conference battle Thursday at 5 p.m., and Central Bucks East (6-5, 4-3) will host Neshaminy on Thursday at 7 p.m.
Pennridge 5-2-1-5 13
Central Bucks East 0-0-3-4 7
CENTRAL BUCKS WEST 9, CENTRAL BUCKS SOUTH 5
The Bucks opened up a 6-2 lead after one quarter and never looked back on the way to their sixth win in as many conference games.
Austin Hahn’s four-goal effort led the attack. He also won 4 of 5 faceoffs. Matt Jacobsen added two goals and two assists and was a perfect 13 of 13 on faceoffs. Alex Greenspan added two goals while Aidan Kimberly had one. Sean Kelly and Joe Perry each had an assist.
Will Shandlay was credited with seven saves in goal in a winning effort for the Bucks.
For the Titans, Keith Conner and Ryan Gordon both had two goals and one assist, and Reese Levinson added one goal. Will Ratcliffe had two caused turnovers and four ground balls, and Anthony Depedro added one caused turnover and three ground balls. James Vargason had two caused turnovers and three ground balls.
Dom Varacollo was credited with 25 saves in goal for the Titans.
Central Bucks West (11-2, 6-0 SOL) will host Pennsbury on Thursday at 7 p.m., and Central Bucks South (5-7, 2-4) will host Souderton Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
Central Bucks South 2-2-0-1 5
Central Bucks West 6-2-1-0 9
SOUDERTON 12, NESHAMINY 4
The visiting Indians roared out of the gate to a 10-0 halftime lead on their way to the decisive conference win.
John Martin-Vince’s five-point game led the Indians and included two goals and three assists. Seth Grossman (3 goals, 1 assist) and Ty Quintois (1 goal, 3 assists) both had four-point games. Tyson Bui connected for a hat trick while Brody Anderson had one goal and one assist. Sean Landis and Trey Bui each added one goal.
Peyton Bannak had another big night at the faceoff X, winning 13 of 15 faceoffs.
Matt Malanga (4 saves), Ryan Johnson (3 saves) and Noah Connor (2 saves) combined for the win in goal for the Indians.
For the Redskins, Jack McVey had a pair of goals, and Lucas Maher added a goal and an assist. Colin Demi had one goal while Liam Ames contributed one assist.
Souderton (10-3, 5-2 SOL) will travel to Central Bucks South on Thursday for a 5:30 p.m. contest, and Neshaminy (6-7, 1-6) will be on the road at Central Bucks East for a 7 p.m. game Thursday.
Souderton 5-5-2-0 12
Neshaminy 0-0-0-4 4
COUNCIL ROCK SOUTH 21, HARRY S TRUMAN 2
Council Rock South powered by eight different scorers defeated Truman at home.
Freshman attackman Brian Cowden scored three goals.
For the Tigers, Pat Berkery contributed a goal and an assist and also had four ground balls. Chris Glover also scored a goal and finished with four ground balls and one caused turnover. Matt Ennis had an assist. Defensemen Jack Rugarber (4 ground balls, 2 caused turnovers), Chase Tuttle (5 ground balls, 3 caused turnovers) and Kaiden Tooms (1 ground ball, 1 caused turnover) also made important contributions. Stone Riemenschneider and Logan Malinowski each had one caused turnover.
Truman goalie Tommy Bryson was credited with 20 saves.
Council Rock South (6-7, 1-5 SOL) will host North Penn on Thursday at 7pm. Truman (0-12, 0-7) will host Quakertown on Thursday.
Harry S Truman 0-2-0-0 2
Council Rock South 3-4-7-7 21
SOL American Conference
WISSAHICKON 12, PLYMOUTH WHITEMARSH 4
Nicholas Donofrio scored five goals and added an assist in a six-point night to lead the Trojans to the convincing road win.
Kyle Lehman added two goals and two assists. Andrew Slackman contributed two goals and one assist while Charles Stehlik had one goal and two assists. Kyle Doll and Gavin Myers both had one goal while Dan Hussa contributed an assist.
Kyle Kemper was a force at the faceoff X, winning 14 faceoffs.
Kyle Crump was credited with eight saves in goal for the Trojans.
Wissahickon (10-1, 6-0 SOL) will be on the road at Abington for a 5:30 p.m. contest Thursday, and Plymouth Whitemarsh (4-8, 3-3) will host Springfield Township on Thursday.
UPPER MORELAND 11, QUAKERTOWN 7
Sparked by the six-point game of Kevin Messina, the Golden Bears earned a conference road win over the Panthers on Tuesday. Messina’s four goals and two assists led UM.
Liam Faattizi added three goals and an assist, and Ryan McKenna had a goal and two assists. Frankie Sebold had two goals, Aidan Tuffy had two assists, Garret Zagorski, one goal, and Indy Mullen, one assist.
For the host Panthers, Evan Mooney had three goals and one assist while Alex Jalboot had a goal and two assists. Adding one goal each were Josh Rohm, Jack Dilberto and David Hammond. Mason Borzio had an assist
Jack Arnold was credited with 13 saves in goal for the Panthers.
Upper Moreland (7-7, 1-5 SOL) will host Abington on Tuesday, and Quakertown (2-10, 1-6) will travel to Harry S Truman on Thursday.
ABINGTON 4, NEW HOPE-SOLEBURY 0
Defense was the name of the game when the Ghosts travelled to New Hope Tuesday.
The Ghosts broke a scoreless tie with three goals in the second quarter and then added one in the third. Their defense kept the Lions off the scoreboard the entire game.
“The defense played a great game – only allowing nine shots, all of which were saved by our goalie, Corey Tobin,” Abington coach Mike Duffy said.
Gavin Sweeney had two goals, Spence Lowery had one goal and one assist, and Matt Miller added one goal. Zach Silverman contributed a pair of assists.
Abington (9-4, 3-2 SOL) will travel to Wissahickon on Thursday for a 5:30 p.m. contest, and New Hope-Solebury (4-5, 2-4) will host William Tennent on Thursday at 7 p.m.
Abington 0-3-1-0 4
New Hope-Solebury 0-0-0-0 0
Non-league
COUNCIL ROCK NORTH 15, HOLY GHOST PREP 6
The Indians celebrated Senior Night with a convincing non-league win over the Firebirds. They took a tenuous 6-5 lead into halftime and blew the game wide open with a 9-1 second half burst.
“It was Senior Night, and our seniors came through,” Rock North coach John Fitzpatrick said.
EJ Allian set the tone for the decisive win by gaining possession for the Indians, winning 17 of 21 faceoffs and also contributing nine ground balls.
Senior Sam Lewis led the Indians’ attack with six goals and one assist to go along with three ground balls. Senior Nick Colavita added two goals and two assists as well as two ground balls. Senior defenseman Noah Epstein added two caused turnovers and one assists.
Also contributing for the Indians were Liam Dudley (3 goals, 1 ground ball), Andrew Zazoff (1 goal, 2 ground balls), Billy McBride (1 goal), Jake Wellwood (2 goals, 3 assists, 3 ground balls) Tyler Rodowicz (1 goal, 3 ground balls), Noah Epstein (1 assist, 1 ground ball), Charlie Rambo (2 ground balls) and Logan Atkinson (1 ground ball).
Senior Zach Borden was credited with 10 saves in goal.
Gavin McDonough’s hat trick led the Firebirds.
Council Rock North (9-4, 6-1 SOL) will host Pennridge on Thursday at 5 p.m.
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