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Flyers Lacrosse Douses Firebirds 13-5

Chaminade's lacrosse team beats Kelleberg aftyer winning the night before

The Chaminade varsity lacrosse team added to their winning record Thursday by defeating the Kellenberg Firebirds 13-5. It was the Flyers’ last this season and as such, senior appreciation day.

The Flyers dominated the entire first half of the game with precision passing and controlling the ball down at Kellenberg’s side of the field and managed to shutout the Firebirds 8-0. Mid-fielder Matthew Graham had the first goal of the game with an assist by attackman Kyle Johnson. Midfielder Gregory Rhodes scored the last goal of the half with 19 seconds remaining in the half.

Lead by Coach John Fecthtmann, the Firebirds rallied late in the third quarter, putting up two goals at the end of the period and another three in the fourth quarter, taking advantage of Chaminade being man down for a 1 minute non-releasable penalty.

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The Flyers were able to rotate in many of their third and even fourth string players allowing everyone on the team a chance to take the field and scoring three more goals in the final quarter to end the contest.

“Our game plan was to play a lot of people,” Chaminade head coach Jack Moran said. “We had guys who less than 24 hours ago had played already.”

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The Flyers had in a preview matchup of the Championship game on May 26 at Hofstra and received praise from the head coach for the quick turnaround victory.

“We have 48 kids and all 48 played today,”. “I thought we did a good job of managing our kids by getting a lot of people on the field. That was my only concern.”

Chaminade faces Delbarton in New Jersey on Saturday.

1 2 3 4 F Kellenberg 0 0 2 3 5 Chaminade 4 4 3 2 13 Chaminade Scoring Statistics Player Position Goals Assts Shots Shane Thornton Attacker 3 1 4 Daniel Annino Defender 2 0 3 Michael Quinn Defender 1 1 1 Joseph Reilly Midfielder 1 1 1 Matthew Conway Attacker 1 0 4 John Atwell Attacker 1 0 3 Christopher Schoenhut Attacker 1 0 3 Gregory Rhodes Midfielder 1 0 2 John Atkinson Attacker 1 0 1 Matthew Graham Midfielder 1 0 1 Ryan Lucakovic Attacker 0 3 1 Brendan Caputo Defender 0 1 2 Kyle Johnson Attacker 0 1 1 Paul Urbank Midfielder 0 1 0 Sean Mahon Midfielder 0 0 6 Brendan DeTomasso Attacker 0 0 2 Matthew Clarkson Attacker 0 0 1 Eric Grein Midfielder 0 0 1 Kyle Irwin Midfielder 0 0 1 Daniel O'Connell Attacker 0 0 1 Edward Tigh Midfielder 0 0 1 Chaminade Goalkeeping Saves John Connors 2 Joseph Faria Jr. 0 Connor Friel 1 Ryan Ricciardelli 2
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