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posted 08/01/2011 Montgomery all star team takes Gold at Keystone games.
A great finish for the 7 Abington Lacrosse players who made the Montco All Star team. With just 2 practices and guided by 2 new Young coaches. The Montco all star team took the tuff road and defeated Delco County team fpr the championship The Delco team had given the Montco team their only loss, the first game of the tournament Saturday morning. The final game had a couple of lead changes and all the Drama that goes along with a Double overtime Championship game. The Alc group held their own all weekend with the best Lacrosse kids across the state and led the way to a double overtime win for the Gold. These boys are just the latest example of the great and long line of young men in ALC long tradition, and should serve as a reminder to all the younger boys that hard work does pays off.
The Keystone game, which is held up at Penn State each year picks a hand full of counties against each other. The Jr Division 7-8
th graders had 13 teams from the state including Chester County, Bucks County, and Delco County. The 7 Game tournaments runs over 2 days. Along the way to the Gold there were a couple of games of note. In a must win situation after already losing to Delco the team found itself down 7-1 at half time with a huge second half comeback lead by James Vandergrift and a buzzer beating last second goal form Cameron Leech they sent the Capital county team out of the playoffs. A huge victory over the Bucks county team 10-5 in the semi finals put the team in to the Championship game. The rematch was on with the Delco county team the only loss of the weekend 5-4.
The championship game and whole weekend could and was defined by James Vandergrift’s 30 second left double overtime face dodge and tournament winning goal, but it would not do justice to the efforts of all of 7 of the ALC players as well as the other Montco team members. The 90+ degree weather and 7 games played did not seem to affect the hard work of Joey Lomady and Ruben Narine taking on the role of team’s 2 best face off options which proved to be a great advantage. Joey Lomady was also busy putting in his share of goals this weekend from the crease. Jamie Griffin LSM, coming back from a tough hip injury, which knock him out of the spring playoff game looked like he was back, running with the best middies in the state and playing great defense. Stephan Leach as well as Christian Teuber lead the way as our two most Athletic middies doing whatever was needed. Just being able to keep up with the athletic middies in the state would have been a great accomplishment but for Christian Teuber clearing the ball form one end of the field to the other wasn’t enough. He did some great work on the offensive side as well by taking the ball from X and scoring to having the two most important assists both game winners, the Championship game and the 7-1 half time comeback. Stephan Leach showed his athleticism all weekend playing midi as he was all over the field clearing the ball, playing defense as well as the ability to run around over thru (as well as out of his own cleats) on the way to scoring some of the most entertaining goals of the weekend.
From left to right
Christian Teuber, Stephan Leach, Jamie Griffin, James Vandegrift, Ruben Narine, Cameron Leech and Joey Lomady.
Very proud of all of them Great Job
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