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The Peterborough Century 21 Lakers snapped their three-game losing skid last night with a 9-7 home win over the Owen Sound North Stars. The win pushes the Lakers back into second place in the Major Series Lacrosse standings, leapfrogging Brooklin, who lost to Cobourg on Wednesday.
Peterborough dominated in the shot department, outshooting Owen Sound 70-37.
“Finally, a good effort at home,” said Holden Cattoni. “We’ve been struggling to find our rhythm and tonight we played a pretty solid game top to bottom. Kudos to their goalie—almost 60 saves. We pulled out a good win and one that we needed at home. We’d like to have probably more than nine goals on 70 shots but that’s hopefully something to come in the near future.”
Braedon Saris opened the scoring with back-to-back goals, followed by one from Brad McCulley. Owen Sound’s Jackson Webster, the league’s leading scorer, got the North Stars going with two of his three goals on the night.
Adam Thistlethwaite scored early in the second period off a feed from Ben Trumble, and Joe Resetarits added another in transition, started by Jake Withers, to give Peterborough a 5-2 lead. Owen Sound responded with two goals around a Cattoni tally, sending the Lakers into the third with a 6-4 lead.
Each team scored three goals in the final frame. Carter Page and Resetarits added to the Lakers’ total, while Jeremy Searle and Josh Rosa scored for the visitors. Cattoni sealed the win with an empty-netter with 1:30 remaining. Xander Derkatz scored his second of the game in the final seconds, but the Lakers held on for the win.
“The wins and losses are one thing, but it’s the way we were playing that we weren’t happy with,” Cattoni said. “You can’t always control when the ball goes in the net, or if you catch a hot goalie, or their team has a good shooting night. That happens. We were more just disappointed with the way we were playing and the effort we were showing, so this was a good step forward for us tonight and hopefully we can replicate that in the weeks to come.”
The Lakers visit Whitby next Wednesday, July 9, for a matchup with the Brooklin Lacrosse Club. They return home the following night, July 10, to host the Six Nations Chiefs on Every Child Matters Night at the Memorial Centre.
Lakers scoring summary:
Joe Resetarits (2G, 2A)
Braedon Saris (2G, 2A)
Holden Cattoni (2G, 2A)
Brad McCulley (1G, 1A)
Carter Page (1G, 1A)
Adam Thistlethwaite (1G)
Taite Cattoni (2A)
Jake Withers, Robert Hope, Dylan Hutchison, Ben Trumble, Matt Gilray (1A each)
