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The Churchville-Chili lacrosse team wanted to start the year off right. The Saints couldn't have found a much better way to kick off 2010, blowing past cross-town rival Gates Chili in the second half to win 16-8 at home on Thursday.
Eighth-grade midfielder Trevor Hodgins had a coming out party, scoring two goals and dishing out an assist while replacing injured attack Alex Pavone in the offensive third late in the first half.
"It wasn't bad, I went out there, got a goal and got confident," Hodgins said of his first varsity game."I went down there and played some left-handed. It seemed to work out."
Both teams battled through sweltering heat and C-C head coach Dave Childs tried to slow the game down. After his team went on a 5-0 run, two of which were scored by junior attack Ryan Yunker, and it went up 6-3 before the first quarter intermission, he implored his players to slow the game down.
"The game will dictate the tempo with which we play," Childs said. "Today we had someone out of town, we were limited in numbers and we wanted to really control that pace, a slower pace."
Gates hung around in the second quarter and Grant Ferguson cut the lead to 6-4 just a minute in when he dug out a ground ball and pushed it past C-C goalie Jack Corcoran. Hodgins responded, netting his first career varsity goal with 8:28 to play, juking his defender and firing past GC goalie Brian Lane.
Senior midfielder Zach Yehl hit a cutting Taylor Kolmer to give Churchville an 8-4 lead. But Gates attack Tyler Webb found Matt Martin with just 4.2 seconds remaining in the stanza to cut the lead to 8-5 heading into the intermission.
Churchville knew it had to stymie the reversed momentum early in the third quarter and its best player stepped up to the challenge.
"We all wanted to make a statement with our first game of the year," Yunker said. "We wanted to come out with the win and start the year off right."
With 8:47 remaining in the third quarter, Yunker beat his defender and fed Jacob Shepard. Shepard, a junior attack, shook his man and scored to put the Saints up 9-5. The goal seemed to stun the Spartans and Churchville scored three more unanswered to close the quarter.
The Churchville-Chili lacrosse team wanted to start the year off right. The Saints couldn't have found a much better way to kick off 2010, blowing past cross-town rival Gates Chili in the second half to win 16-8 at home on Thursday.
Eighth-grade midfielder Trevor Hodgins had a coming out party, scoring two goals and dishing out an assist while replacing injured attack Alex Pavone in the offensive third late in the first half.
"It wasn't bad, I went out there, got a goal and got confident," Hodgins said of his first varsity game."I went down there and played some left-handed. It seemed to work out."
Both teams battled through sweltering heat and C-C head coach Dave Childs tried to slow the game down. After his team went on a 5-0 run, two of which were scored by junior attack Ryan Yunker, and it went up 6-3 before the first quarter intermission, he implored his players to slow the game down.
"The game will dictate the tempo with which we play," Childs said. "Today we had someone out of town, we were limited in numbers and we wanted to really control that pace, a slower pace."
Gates hung around in the second quarter and Grant Ferguson cut the lead to 6-4 just a minute in when he dug out a ground ball and pushed it past C-C goalie Jack Corcoran. Hodgins responded, netting his first career varsity goal with 8:28 to play, juking his defender and firing past GC goalie Brian Lane.
Senior midfielder Zach Yehl hit a cutting Taylor Kolmer to give Churchville an 8-4 lead. But Gates attack Tyler Webb found Matt Martin with just 4.2 seconds remaining in the stanza to cut the lead to 8-5 heading into the intermission.
Churchville knew it had to stymie the reversed momentum early in the third quarter and its best player stepped up to the challenge.
"We all wanted to make a statement with our first game of the year," Yunker said. "We wanted to come out with the win and start the year off right."
With 8:47 remaining in the third quarter, Yunker beat his defender and fed Jacob Shepard. Shepard, a junior attack, shook his man and scored to put the Saints up 9-5. The goal seemed to stun the Spartans and Churchville scored three more unanswered to close the quarter.
"We needed the next goal and they got it," GC coach Mark Sweeney said. "Lacrosse is a game of streaks and they had a bigger one than we did. We started to play well, but they took the momentum and that was it."
Yunker recorded another assist and a goal in the rally to put the Saints away and finished with three goals and two assists. In the fourth, Gates scored two unanswered, from Ferguson and Pete DiLaura, but the Saints responded with a 4-0 run.
"(Yunker)'s a big part of our offense," Childs said. "Fortunately this year we feel that we have a number of different weapons. Teams are going to gameplan to shut him down and we feel that we can put other guys out there that can make them pay."
Before exiting the game late in the second, Pavone recorded three goals and an assist. Ferguson had two goals and three assists while Webb had two goals and one assist.
Freshman Martin had a hat trick in the loss for Gates Chili.
