001[Music] [Applause] [Music] basement does keep that there, but that one gets past the catcher there to advance. [Music] All right. Finally. Finally. [Music] Yeah. Good evening and welcome to William Ball Stadium for tonight's 2025 NHIAA Division One boys semifinal game between the Exit Bluehawks and Victor and Astros. The NHA and this member schools want to thank you for coming out and supporting your team this evening. High school sports an extension of the classroom learning experience and student athletes competing tonight hard in the classroom and on the field this season. And we encourage them to demonstrate good sportsmanship. And we'd also like to ask you, fans, help make this event a meaningful one for our athletes. Join respect for your team, the opposing team, the coaches, and officials. In the unlikely event of emergency or a
002fire alarm activation, all occupants must leave the stadium via the nearest exit. And one rule reminder for the safety of the players, coaches, and officials, no fans allowed onto the plane surface at any time. Let's get down to business. Starting lineups for the Blue Hawks and attack. Number 15, Jackson Green. And attack number 22, Pat Hway. And attack number 26, Zack Spray. Midfield number one, Jimmy Pascal. Midfield number seven, Will Mroy. And in this field, number three, Tyler Bland. On defense, number five, Griffin Wner. Number nine, Jackson Langanger. Also on defense, number 18, Fletcher Nau. in goal for the Blue Hawks. Number 28, Conan Wilbur, coach of the Blue Hawks, Rooster. And now for the starting lineups for the Astros. At attack number six, Kyle Yuskovich attack number 12, Matt Bundy. Number 25, Levi Weaver.
003Number two, Dylan Stingle. Number 15, Lon Connor. Deal. Number 18, Caleb Compton. It's number seven, Brady Blasco. Number 30, Nathan Smith. Number 33, Jackson Chase. In four for the Astros, number 34, Gavin Burwell, Martin Oer. At this time, we ask if you would please stand able and gentlemen, please remove your head gear for the performance of the National Ladies and gentlemen, That's very [Music] [Applause] Good evening and welcome to Bill Ball Stadium here on this lovely evening. Temperatures in the upper 70s. Uh, no wind, just a perfect night for playoff lacrosse. I'm Harry Kazlowski here with Jay Abbid Roth. Just finished calling the game prior to this one. BG advances to the final by a 128 margin over Bedford. Now we're going to see who's going to play the Bishop Girtton Cardinals. It'll be number
004one Pingerton or number four Exit. Yeah, and we see again two perennial uh powers here in division one coming together. Uh two different tales of the teams. I think uh Pinkerton has really been strong throughout their inseason um in conference games whereas Exit may have had a few stumbles here and there Harry here will tell you about but really important here all that uh all that stuff is lost. This is a you know one more game four more quarters to see who goes to the championships. It's going to be exciting one. Pton Academy comes in with a record of 14 and four. Uh they were undefeated against all New Hampshire competition except one. The Michigan Curtain Cardinals beat them back on uh I don't have it right in front of me. Let's see. Uh that
005was on May 13th with 168 loss. So that was pretty uh pretty significant margin right there. These two teams did face off back on May 5th and Pingerton did win that game by a close margin 118. So, you know, first time out they had a close contest. Maybe we'll have one fairly close here. The exit blue hawks 12 and six record number four seed. Uh their losses this year twice to Bedford, twice to BG, once to Pickington, once to Bill Rick. Yeah. And looking to uh as we start out here, we saw in the first game, it's really going to be about who can control their emotions in the beginning. It's going to be a lot going on. High high pace. It's really about who can take care of the ball, kept get the uh
006possession and a little bit of calmness on their side. I think those are the ones are going to get out to an early lead. And faceoff ball is still loose on the ground. Finally picked up there by Dylan Stingle for PA. They control. [Applause] Yeah, we had the pleasure of watching Pinkerton uh play Bedford and Stingle had a massive game at the faceoff X, winning about 90%. So, we'll see if he can carry that here forward here against Exit. Quitilian with the ball. Weaver. Pass up top there to Quintiliani once again. Gormdes now joining them on the field is Kate Johnson. So, the Astros taking their time here getting set up. They got the players they want out there. Yeah, it's kind of hard to tell. I think we see Exit in his zone with
007the short sticks in the middle. Trying not to extend only a little bit here. Let's see what Pinker can do can do early in the game to call a play against the zone. That's Gormidity. Now he flips it over to Coutiliani. There's Matt Gormidy. So the Astros just playing the per perimeter game here. Really not taking uh making much of an effort to get to the net. 90 seconds already gone in this first quarter. No score. Finally a short side shot there by number 12 Matt Gorbidity. Gets the Astros on the board. Yeah, and really nice patience by the Pinkerton team. Really wasn't a huge skip pass or anything like that. Were just able to move the ball around quickly and as they always say, we always talk about the ball moves faster than the
008feet. In that case, they were able to get it down low to Gormundy who didn't have anybody on him right away. The slide came, but he was able to dip his shoulder, get a low angle shot in. One- nothing Pinkerton. So, it's Will Makavoy against Stingle. Stingle wins it again. So PA is two for two for two I should say for on the faceoff so far. There's a centering pass that misses everybody and Mroy picks it up for exit. They finally have a chance now. He gets checked off the ball but his teammates are Hey, we're there. PA gets it back. Weaver pass down low. Zack misses everybody. That's going to go Over and back. I assume there's an over and back one. Yeah, that would just be Yep. When the ball goes over in
009the defensive zone, when you're on offense, it's a turnover. So, now Exiter has it. Tyler Bland, [Music] and they get some of their uh starters out there. Sha Sam Gibney comes out. Zidi Gibney with it right now advancing moving to his right drawing the attention of the long stick there number seven Brady Blasa takes it behind the net and gets it up top to number three Alex Scott gets a shoulder into his man long shot skips on the ground. Backed up by Exer. Yeah, good defense by Pinkerton giving up that outside shot. Um we'll see if they can move the ball a little bit. Get Pinkerton moving their feet so they get some openings. We see a nice takeaway check there. That collision right there right by the the goal. Oh, there's the turnover. Haway
010gets the ball right back. Wheels around, takes the shot. Saved by Brwell. Yeah, Pinkerton very lucky to get away with that. Haway plucked the ball, the the clearing pass out of the air. Was able to get a shot off or get a pass off, excuse me, but picking goalie stood strong. Big check there. Turns the ball over. Here comes Exit right back. Fletcher Nevo leaves it for a teammate. Now we settle down. Tyler Bland with it draws a double team gets the ball over to Alex Scott. Alex Scott can't control the ball. Now PA gets checked off the ball and that draws several flags. And number 20 for the Astros, Ryan Hughes looks uh shaken up on that play. Now he gets up. Yeah, nice individual effort by Hughes absorbing a whole bunch of hits.
011Almost got away with it and then uh took that last one that was a check to the head. Maybe a cross check to the head. Now, we saw two flags. Were they on the for the same foul or was there a offsetting foul? I would suspect they're on the same cuz they came at the same time, but we'll see. But it's Let's see. Yeah, just the one there. Unnecessary one minute. So, first extra man offense for Pinkerton. Let's see what they can do. Yeah, Zach Sprig's the guilty party. takes a knee in the box. 750 in the first. One- nothing Astros. Yeah. By Matt Gorbidity. Yeah. And the uh Pinkerton goalie Gavin Burwell standing strong earlier on making some good saves. Keeping this a zero game. Here's Weaver. Pass inside. Nice save there by Wilbur
012for exit and he's going to get the ball back as they reset. Yeah, very nice save. It was a hard kind of a bang bang. Stood tall, absorbed that in his chest protector. Was able to get the save and then here we see a clear from exit. So Tyler Bland with the ball. Dangerous pass there to Alex Scott, but connection is made. Now San Gibney. passes it down to Graham Knight. No, I'm sorry. Number 15. That is That's uh Jackson Green. Back across to Bland. [Applause] Bland's got a long stick on him. Griffin Gerard centering pass. Nice setup there for Sam Gibney. Couldn't get make the connection though. Ball is loose on the ground. PA picks it up. Yeah, really nice movement by the exit offense. Had uh had the streaking man coming down the
013middle. Wasn't able to connect. Would have been a really great scoring opportunity if they had made that that connection. Another turnover there by Pinkerton. Nice move. Shot savewell again. Standing tall. That was a great stop there. We get a whistle and let's see what happens. Okay, ball will stay will stay with the Astros. Yeah, I think this is a delayed call where the Pinkerton attackman actually went into the goal after the save was made and hit Burwell. So, it's a free clear. Really nice set of saves by both goalies here on the early going of this game. Under six minutes to go here in the first one nothing Pinkerton Academy Quintiliani over to Matt Gormidy our goal scorer now Jeff Gormidy back up top to Quitiliani looking for a lane shot there by one of
014the Gormidy brothers. Goes wide, backed up by the Astros. They retain. And we see a patient offense again by Pinkerton and Exiter willing to sink in in this zone and let Exiter take some excuse me, Exiter willing to sink in the zone and let Pinkerton take some outside shots. Wonder if we're going to see some action or movement or a play by Pinkerton to get some exit people moving and turning. Matt Gormy gets the ball back. Correction, that's Quintiliani number five. Jeff Gormy, Justin Weaver. Matt Gormidy tries to center. Picked up quickly by brother Jeff. Changes direction. Pass up top to Quintiliani. K. Johnson had it momentarily. Ball on the ground. It looks like Exit will come up with it. They do. Good turnover there. [Applause] Yeah. And Exit did get some movement there. Just
015not quite connecting on their passes. They got a bit get a little bit more crisp for both sides here to see some pay dirt. But nice offense in the early going for Exiter. Um and and Pinkerton as we settle into this first quarter. Blue Hawks with the ball. Gennard gets it up top to Scott. Back across now to Tyler Bland. Bland trying to make his move. Drops it back. Jackson Green. Now Scott. They decide to pull it back. Patiently playing the ball here. Trying to extend this possession. [Applause] Here's Gibney. Sam Gibney pulls back. Some of the PA faithful here getting a little restless here with this delay. Now Gennard and we're seeing Pinkerton really looking to slide early and it's causing some some issues with the exit movement because they're really not getting exit
016is not able to get a step and and make a difference here and Pinkerton's really playing great help defense. Yeah, Haway tried to make a move there but Nathan Smith fought him off. Here's Scott takes a shot that hit a stick backed up. Actually, it's picked up by a teammate right there behind goal line. X Gard high pass. That's going to be a turnover. It goes over the midstripe over and back. Good defense by Pinkerton. I think exit bit frustrated with how that that ended. They were seeing some opportunities but weren't able to really make the exit defense move the way they wanted to get an open shot. So, now the Astros on the attack. They have the lead one- nothing. 228 to go here in the first. It's been a quick period so far.
017Not a lot of stops and these possessions have been long and drawn out. [Music] Oh, beautiful shot there. Great save by Wilbur. Yeah, Wilbur again has has stood strong and tall and a couple point blank opportunities. Really bailing out his team here as the Pickerton attackman snuck around from behind and got an open shot. Ball's on the ground here. Exit's got to get to it. Call a violation here. So the Astros get the ball now. Canardi ball gets put on the ground. Didn't see that truck hit him. Lot of turnovers in this game so far. Very physical. A lot of contact. Balls loose momentarily. Pasco has to come back for it now. Tyler Bland with it for the Blue Hawks. He's got Alex Scott. Long pass there. Scott waits patiently. We're going to get a
018little substitution here. Yeah, really nice ride by Exiter. We saw Pinkerton coming down with a oddman advantage, but Exiter really put the clamps on and got the ball on the ground and really stopped that what could have been a pretty dangerous attack from Pinkerton. And now they have an opportunity here to level the game. So Sprag is in now. Gibney went off. Now that pass intended for Hathaway goes off the mark, off the stick turnover on the Blue Hawks. Yeah, that's a tough one for exit. Just, you know, working so hard to to ride and get the ball down and to have a little bit of an unforced error is always tough to swallow. It's early in the game though, so hopefully some of these nerves and jitters are going to work their way out
019for Exiter. [Music] Jackson Ferrell behind goal line extended. He gets it up now to Jeff Gormidy. Matiliani number five. Matt Gormidy changes direction, tries to get a shooting lane, decides to pull back. Pass back to Frell behind goal line X. Now the pass up to Jeff Dormidy. Misses the mark, but the Astros are able to back it up, but Chili goes back for it. Matt Dormy with it. 5 seconds to go. I think this period's going to end without a shot. Long shot stopped by the keeper Wilbur and that's going to do it. And one period over pretty quickly there. Very few stoppages. And just one goal to talk about that's by Matt Gormidy came at 1023 to give the Astros a one- nothing lead. Yeah, pretty even uh even half. We've seen as we
020saw in the first game a little bit of jitters perhaps getting in here. These are all kids that can pass, shoot, know what they're doing. But when you start seeing those unforced errors, I think it's a little bit of the moment, right? This is a this is a big deal going to the state championship finals. Um, and I'm also interested to see too, they've been very tentative when they've uh been on offense. The defense are kind of controlling both sides. Uh, interested to see what both coaches do here as we get into the second quarter. What kind of plays, what kind of action can they get to get more opportunities? I I was going to ask you about that. Obviously, very deliberate ball possession by both teams. Is that is that on purpose to try
021to find an opening or is that something that the defense is doing? They're not giving them anything to work with. Yeah, I think what it is is um the defense is slouching in. So those skip passes are really what hurt you in lacrosse is when you everybody's staring at the ball and if they throw it all the way over and get someone from behind, it's that bang bang that you worry about. But with both these defenses are really standing still. And when you can't get the defense to move, whether they're playing zone or whatever it is, they can keep their stick in the passing lane. They can look at you. they don't really have to worry about the cuts behind because they know they're bunched. It's when you can get that defense moving and it's
022faster passes, more action cuts, um, and then one-on-one dodges. I think that's what both teams need to start to explore a little bit harder. Astros back on the field. The Blue Hawks still hust uh in their huddle. Two different huddles, too, I guess. Offense and defense, right? That's right. Very specialized uh this time of year. They'll switch ends. Astros will be on the left side of your TV screen at 7:00. Yeah, I tell you, what a gorgeous night for lacrosse. It's just about as perfect as you can get. Yeah, it's not hot, not humid, you know, just kind of perfect weather. Sun went down, so you don't have to worry about that. Yeah, very different from the first game, too. We saw BG jump out to a three, what was it? 3 0 3 jumped
023out to three nothing right off the bat. A lot of emotions in there. Not to say this one's not emotional for the guys, but it seems to be they're they're keeping their cool pretty well as Exiter wins the faceoff. Pas able to jump in. He picked that up. He loses it. Gets it right back. Tries to get it to his man. Little bit of sloppy ball control there. A little pressure and uh Pat Hathaway could not control that that pass. Yeah, being an ex long pole myself, you you always think you can get down there and work with the short poles, but when it gets tight and you're getting hacked, it's a little bit rough. So, I think the long pole there got a little bit of inhead out of his skis there. Good defense
024by uh Pinkin to get the ball back. So, now it's the Astros Matt Gormidy and now brother Jeff Gormidy with the with the feed from Twilliani from behind X. Yeah, nothing. Harry, that's exactly what we're talking about. The ball went behind and we saw a skip pass. So, not to the person right next to you. That actually went past the goalie, past the middle of the defense up top, and Normandy was sitting there. So, not only is everybody turning 180° to go see where the ball is, but then that was such a bang bang play. Right as they're turning, the ball's coming at them, so they don't have time to react. Really nice play from behind for Pinkerton. Astros up two nothing here. 11:21 to go in the half [Music] and then the A the
025uh Exit Blue Hawks win another face off there. Quick reaction. Oh, great shot there. Close range. Bell ready for it though. Little collision right there. Now the Astros pick it up. Stingle gets it into the offensive end. And a shot from long range by Tyler Pinard. And he makes it three nothing. Yeah, you love to see that. A freshman. Moment isn't too big for him. Took the pass. Huge bouncer. Goalie went all the way down and couldn't quite get all the way up as the ball tucked underneath the crossbar. Really nice shot by Pardi. And again, we saw a goalie for Pinkerton, Gavin Burwell, standing strong and having a making a fantastic save that Pinkerton was able to turn into a fast break point. This time the Astros controlled faceoff. So Jeff Gormy brings it
026in or correction, that's Tyler Barry, number 14. Pass up to Jeff Gormidy. Or should say Matt number 12. Astros make some substitutions, get the players out there they want. And away we go. Yeah, we saw Pinkerton win that faceoff. It's been thus far pretty even at the faceoff X. And so I think that's going to be a huge area of emphasis for both teams because you got to start to find a way to dominate that area so you can do the make it take it and get some more opportunities for your team. Jeff Gormidy across to Weaver. Weaver pulls back passes to Coutiliani. Now Matt Gormidy passing sides for brother Jeff. He gets hit right when the ball gets there. And good hustle there on the part of Graham Knight, number eight, able to leg
027that out and win the possession there. Yeah, nice defense by Exit clamping down on the cutting. Gormundy able to get that ball and let's see what they can do with the clear. So, Alex Scott finally gets it over a midfield strike. Pat Hathaway carries it in. [Applause] And a uh mishandle there by Gennard and exit responders a good possession. Quick pass up now to Matt Germany. He takes a shot but ready for it. Ronan Wilberg gets the stick on it. Yeah, Norman, I think was surprised he kept the handle on that one, threw up the shot and got cleared out. Cat Lake reflexes allowed him to land on his legs, but uh really nice pass by, uh, Brwell there, getting it up early, quickly, giving Pinkerton the opportunity. Passes it, gets the ball back. That's
028Jason Ferrell, number 17. 23 is Tyler Pinardi, one of the goal scorers today. And we've seen Exiter here now drop into a zone trying to again clog up the middle with the cutters and make Pinkerton settle for the outside shots. Matt Dormy gets the pass inside, fires quickly. Four nothing Pinkerton. Yeah, that one was just a bit too easy for Gormy. Very nice cut. Good vision by Fernardi, but came through unchecked as the whole exit defense was staring at the ball. Really nice movement and action by Pinkerton. Very nice finish by Gormundy to throw it in the bottom left corner. That's Matt Gormy's second goal of the night. Gives the Astros a four nothing lead. [Music] [Applause] Astros win that faceoff. Loose ball picked up by Tyler Barry. He loses it momentarily, but his teammates
029there ready to pick it up. Dylan Stingle. Stingle gets coach picks it up. Pass across to Tyler Barry. Number 20. That's Ryan Hughes [Applause] now. Jeff Gormy with it. Wallace. Astro slowing things down here just a bit. Now the pass to Quintiliani. Back over to Jeff Garmy. Weaver picks it up. gets it back to number four. High pass off the stick. It's going to go safe just in bounds. So I guess this the stick can go over but not the body, right? Absolutely. Very, very nice play by the Pinkerton defender Nathan Smith to keep it. Smart play on their offensive side without him going over or his body going over and Pinkerton retains possession. [Applause] Pat Gormy fighting off a check. Got it over to Levi Weaver. Ball's knocked loose, but they're going to say
030he went off and exit her players. So, Pinkerton retains possession here. 646 to go in the half. It's four nothing Astros. Yeah, I think we're seeing Pingerton trying to poke and prod at this defense. Not really taking strong shots. We saw Normandy or Gory, excuse me, run through uh the middle, but not able to get a shot off. Love to see him move a little bit more, get a little bit more action, as I keep saying, to get uh Exiter off their uh off their spot. Jeff Gormidy goes behind X. Gets it up to Levi Weaver fires from an angle and scores. Yeah, I apologize. was a little bit slow with that last delivery and laughed because Weaver was standing there for about 20 seconds wide open and uh you know figurative found the right
031pass but he was probably hopping up and down wondering when they were going to notice him and he when they did catch and score. Nice play. So after a pretty uh slow first period we've had four goals now in about under six minutes and the Astros jump up to a five nothing leader. You know, the first game we saw BG jump out to a three nothing lead. Bedford answered and it was a close game until the half. BG was able to get a goal right before the half two seconds before they took a 65 lead into the uh locker room and then came out and scored the next seven goals. Basically ran away with it. Bedford scored a couple of essentially garbage time goals late but just to make it close, but it was all
032BG in the second half. This game is all Pinkerton so far. Even though exit is doing a pretty good job on the faceoff dock, which is one thing that Bedford didn't do, they're winning those possessions on in the faceoff circle, but then they're not protecting the ball once they have it. Yeah. Yeah. These possessions are so so vitally important to the team and Exiter, you know, through no no uh fault of their own at some points because Pinkerton's extending and adding pressure, but Exit is just could really use some some pace and some, you know, opportunity to keep at their own pace, keep possession, keep the ball, and kind of dictate to Pinkerton what they want to do. Whereas the Pinkerton defense thus far is really extending, getting their stick on hands and getting the
033ball on the ground and creating some chaos. Well, the Blue Hawks have to break the seal here at some point. This would be a good time. Yeah. Couple of goals. I mean, if they get two or three goals, make it a 5-2, 5-3 game going into the half, that uh that that sets them up for the second half, but they can't let it get any deeper than it is now. Absolutely. They they've had good success when they can win a faceoff. Uh the faceoff guys winning it clean forward, and so they're creating fast break opportunities. That's really what you're hoping for for Exiter. and on quue uh as Stingle wins for Pinkerton wins that face off and they are winning. They're starting to win more and more of these faceoffs here. So that part of
034the game is getting away from the Blue Hawks. Good uh pressure there on Bernardi. Exit really working them over and then timeout called by the uh by the Astro bench. Try to preserve possession there. Yeah, that's when if you're on defense, you're asking for a stick check because he took quite a few whacks and ball did not get get dislodged. He's going to have a few marks on him at the end. So, 557 to go here. Winner will advance to the finals, which I believe is what? Saturday, I believe. So, yeah, Saturday game. Let me just check my uh notes here real quick. It is going to be right here at Bill Ball Stadium Saturday 700 p.m. I assume all the uh boys lacrosse division finals will be here. I think that's right. It's a
035great facility. Plenty of seating, plenty of parking. Um Oh, yeah. And beautiful field, too. Yeah, absolutely. Really nice uh host. We've been here a couple years now. Very nice host here at Exit. I'm sure the Exit team would love to win through this and have a home game in essence. not even in essence an actual home game for uh the finals cuz the crowd going is really a boost for you. Uh but they've got a bit of a hill to climb, break the seal down 5 nothing and we're about ready to resume play here. Possession will stay with the Astros. Pullani over to Matt Gormidy. Thinks about one way. Now gets it across to Kate Johnston. He gets it to Kevitz who's behind the net. Kevitz, one of the big names on this Astro squad.
036Really haven't heard much from him today though. still lots of time. Yeah, he had a fantastic game when they played Bedford which we called I think had six goals and was just relatively unstoppable. Has been quiet though thus far. It's been really midi driven from Pickerton to this point. Jeff Gormidy had was driving for the net, lost the ball. Luckily his brother picked up the loose ball there. Matt Gormidy [Applause] tried to get it to Quintinelli, but the ball is turned over and picked up by Graham Knight. Bullhawks back on offense. There's a chance inside tried to get it to Griffin Gennard. He couldn't complete the catch and then got for his trouble in front of the crease. Exit gets the ball back. Pascal chips it up ahead to Alex Scott. 446 to play here
037in the half. Now exit taking their time. Looks like some uh substitutions happening here for both teams. Yeah, we saw some good fast break opportunity for Exiter. Really would have loved to secure that catch and would have had a one-on-one with a goalie, but unfortunate not to be able to secure it. Here we are with six on six opportunity for exiter. Need a goal here with 4 minutes and 20 seconds left. Gibney gets the pass from Scott. Try to get it back. Gibney picks up the loose ball. Loses it again. Still loose on the ground. Now taken away by the Astros again. That ball ball security has really been dogging the Astros to I mean the Exit Blue Hawks today. Bounce shot quickly there by Caleb Hob Hopton a little too far in front of
038the net. It bounced over. Yeah, when you get those long poles down there, it's kind of hard to get them off the center of shooting. Everybody wants their moment in glory. Good bounce shot, good technique, but kind of pounded into the ground a little bit. Bounce pretty high. However, really nice defense again by Pinkerton and and Exit, as you said, just not taking care of the ball. And that that can come back to haunt you if you don't write that really quickly in a game like this. 333 to go in the half. Here's Jackson. Pharaoh takes a shot. A low line drive. Skitters by the net. Backed up by the Astros. They will maintain. Long pass over to Normandy. Now a quick shot by Tyler Barry. That's wide. Backed up by the Astros. Yeah. And
039uh the cracker Andrew Fen the team fantastic feeding you some some information. The D1 finals are here in Exit. D2 is actually at Bedford and D3 at Laconia. So, Oh, okay. spreading the the wealth a little bit. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, team. Aro still possess with three minutes to go in the half. Gets it to Weaver. Weaver turns around, fires in position to back it up. Possession remains with the Astros. Yeah, and Pinkerton really not trying from behind to to drive hard. But there we see Weaver having some success being able to turn the corner and get his hands free. Missed the cage, but that's promising if you're Pinkerton with that opportunity from behind. Matiliani one-on-one drifts over to his right. Tries to get around Griffin Lechner for the Astros or for the
040uh Blue Hawks. Pass in front. Well defended. Weaver unable to get a pass away. In fact, he keeps drifting further and further away. Yeah, and this is good pressure by Exiter. This is kind of what we've been we've been seeing. They've been extending. It's kind of when this breaks down, then there's big huge holes in the middle of the field where Pickerton has taken advantage. But I love to see them extending out trying to take you dictate the pace of the defense. Weaver turns around after basically giving the ball to ride around the field and scores with 156 to go. 6 nothing. Yeah, I had the broadcasters cursed. They were extending. Everything was good. Weaver, you see him grabbing his knees now. Both the defender and Weaver retired, but unfortunately um for exiter defender was
041playing some really nice position defense. Weaver got an edge. He's a big strong kid, but no slide came to stop him and Weaver was able to uh get his hands free and that close. These players more often than not are going to bury it in a cage. Weaver with a second backto back goals here in the second quarter. 6 nothing now for the Astros. And once again they win on the faceoff. turn the ball over now. Loose again in the exit field and looks like they're going to award the ball to the Astros. Yeah, you know, Harry, you're a football guy. They say one of the best cross players ever was um Jim Brown, the football player in Syracuse. And I think that was a little bit of a Jim Brownesque by Will Maloy as
042he put it on his chest and tried to run through four people. Shot on goal picked up loose. Oh, that almost went over the goal line. almost put it in himself. The keeper trying to pick up the ball almost put it in the net. That was close. Saved by the uh the goalpost there, I think. 113 to play. Astros with the ball again. Pinardi over Normandy. Very nice uh defense again. Go go go go goending. Um, and we see much like the last game, we see Pinkerton really dominating the excuse me, the last uh the previous game we just uh talked about where BG really had the possession arrow and a lot of time taken off and Bedford was when they got the ball, they rushed. We're seeing the same thing with Exit really trying
043to go down and there's no such thing as a six goal shot and so they got to think about getting one at a time and taking advantage of the ball here and taking care of the ball a little bit more. Under 30 seconds to go in the half. Barry trying to get away from number eight Graham Knight. Now gets the pass to Jeff Gormidy. Clock is running down. Down to 20 seconds. Jeff Gormy takes the shot. Drives, gets the shot that goes wide. Wilbur, nobody backing it up there. Wilbert took a stab at it, but it went all the way to the back goal line. So now 5 seconds left. Let's see what the Astros the Blue Hawks can do. 321 fires the shot high and that does it at the buzzer. They get the
044shot away nowhere near the net and the score remains 6 nothing after one. Quick scoring recap. Very quiet first quarter. Just one goal from Matt Gormidy made it one- nothing Astros. Then the flurry. Five goals here in the second. At 11:21, Jeff Gormidy scored. 1053, Tyler Pinardi made it three nothing. 823. Matt Gormidy scored again. 4 nothing. And then two goals by Levi Weaver. 614 and 156. 6 nothing is your score at the half. I'm Harry Klowski here with Jay Aban Roth. And we're going to take a break and come back with second period action in just about 10 minutes. Stick around. Come on. Facing off. Start the second half of action for the Blue Hawks. Number seven, Will Moroy. And for the Astros, number two, Dylan Stingle. Welcome back. Second half action about to
045begin here. Astros sitting on a 6 nothing lead. 24 minutes away from cashing their ticket into the finals. Exit finally winning a face off here. Quick move and they get on the board and they draw a flag right after. Nice move there. Number 32 with the goal. Tyler Bland just picked it up, went in, fired. Yeah, just as good as it can be, good as it can get for Exiter coming out of halftime. Being able to win the faceoff cleanly, get it over to number 32. Who is that? Tyler Bland with the uh the shot fast break and took the hit with the and they'll be able to be I think yeah, they're going to go man down as they start this man up as they go on to this face off. Yeah, they took
046they took a shot right at the end there. Land paid paid for the paid the price scoring that goal, but he gave his team a man up and now possession here. Yeah, just about as good as it can get for Exit though. Um because as we talked about earlier, they need to control this face off to start climbing this hill and get this back uh to manageable. Exit wins that one. Haskell takes it in. fires a shot right away. So that's the new strategy there. They're not wasting any time just getting the puck or the puck the ball to the net. Backed up by exit. They maintain possession here. Bland with it the goal scorer. That's Jard with it behind the net. Pick up the bland. [Applause] Little mishap there on the uh the pass.
047And you know, it looked a little bit like uh Green took his eye off the ball right before it got to him. Absolutely. And as we see a turnover here, the defender number one rolled it back into the middle of his uh his crease. Lucky to get away with just an errant shot there. So no harm from the turnover. Exiter maintains control here. Ball inside loose trying to come up with it. Here's Scrum right in front of the crease and the keeper able to grab that Burwell, but then they throw the ball away. So, you know, exit is getting some opportunities here with possessions. They just got to take care of the ball a little bit. Watch, you know, keep an eye on those passes. Yeah. And it's just so hard in lacrosse to get
048a save when you're man down. Um and twice now Pinkerton has gotten the ball man down and given it up and it's just that's so hard for your defense to come to have to stay out there with unforced error. Haway has the ball knocked off his stick goes out of bounds. Turnover exit. Astros get the ball. Gavin Burwell the goalkeeper flips it back out to his teammate. Now Jackson chase midi pass up to Jeff Gormidy. Gormidy with the ball back. 10 minutes to go here in the third. Six to one Astros lead. Exit finally on the board in the second half. Quintiliani with it. It goes behind X and comes back out front. Turns around quickly, but the keeper Wilbur ready for it. Got a leg in the way. Astros get the rebound. Oh, nice
049pass. Try to get it inside to Gavin Mury. And I'm sorry, wrong number 25, Levi Weaver, but he couldn't complete the play. Ball loose on the ground. Exit gets it. We're seeing some really good intensity from the exit defense, too. Flying around. Uh sticks flying, ball on the ground. I saw three exit players against one Pinkerton player trying to pick up that ball. Really coming out of halftime with a ton of energy. Here we go. Alex Scott gets the ball to just Griffin Gennard inside. And just like that, two quick goals by the Blue Hawks. Makes it a 6-2 game. Yeah, very nice transition goal number three for exor out. Scott was the catalyst there. was in was in there on the ground ball. Started the run, started the race, got up and moved the
050ball down quickly. I tell you, this is a very different exit team than we saw in the first half. One of the coaches got to be very excited about cuz this is all about hustle. There they go. Winning that face off again. Pastel comes in, picks up the loose ball. Exit with it again. [Applause] Chance to cut the lead in half here. This Bland, one of the goal scorers for the Blue Hawks. Both teams make uh substitutions here. Bland waits for his teammate to join him there. That's Gibney number 14. Bland once again driving. Driving. He's got a lane to shoot. They're going to say that's a lost pass, I guess, right? Yeah. Very nice defense by the long pole. Nathan Smith able to get that back check just at the last minute as uh
051Tyler Bland was going in. Good energy from Pinkerton to create that turnover. Almost lost the ball there too. Good move there by number 33 Jackson Chase able to maintain possession. Yeah, this is where if you're Pickerington coaching, you need a coach on the field someone to just say slow down a bit. Let's uh let's get an opportunity. Let's we take weathered a little bit of a storm here. Let's get some momentum back. That seems exactly what uh Jeff Gennard is doing. Germy's doing here. Now he makes a move. Gets by his defender. Takes it behind X as Matt comes up from behind and puts it in. Goal number three for Matt Gormidy today. Yeah, Gormidy there took a pretty vicious hit in the back as he uh as he ran through. Ref said it was
052uh was paying out. Good to see him up, but nonetheless, quick player. Ran back. He had a short stick. Exit electing to provide a put a short stick on him and he just ran by the shorty that Hezi has done a couple times here today. He only takes he only needs a step or two past goal line extended. Able to extend and bury it. Really nice play by Gormy. So Mroy against Stingle here at center. Stingle's going to win this one for the Astros. Ball's loose. Astros pick it up on offense. Quick shot as number 14 Tyler Barry was going down. No call though. Possession I believe is going to stay with the Astros. [Applause] The call foul there. I think we do. I think we have a foul on number seven for exiter Mroy.
053He's going he's going to the box. Yeah, I think on that shot he came in and tried to clear out maybe a hit to the head. Good opportunity for Pinkerton as they've given up a couple goals. got just one back, but good opportunity for them to get a little bit of momentum. Try to at least that race that two goal scored by the Blue Hawks here. Get the lead back up to six. Patiliani Germany. Oh, nice pass inside. He had the right idea. They tried to get it to Jackson Frell, but he couldn't control it and loan Wilbur is able to pick up the loose loose ball. Yeah, good defense by Exit collapsing on the open. Ferrell, create that turnover. So now Exiter with a chance to take some time off the clock, burn off
054that man up situation for the Astros. Here's Bland. [Applause] [Music] Halfway 22. Sam Gibney number 14 over Griffin Gennar. He's last goal scorer. Yeah, it looks like Exit able to weather that or excuse me, weather that man down back to even. Shot goes wide, backed up by Exit. They retain control. Six minutes to go here in the third. Get it back. Halfway tries to get it out front. Fighting off the defenders. Gets it inside. Shot there by 15. Jackson Green is blocked. Goes out of bounds. Still exit her ball. I think that was Ronan Connors. The other 15 on 15 violence there. Never Sorry about that. Not fun to absorb. The roster's mixed up here. No, no, you're right. It was 15 on 15. Uh, and it's never fun to absorb one of those shots
055close close range. So, Green fires from long range [Music] and Gennard backing him up there. Gennard with it trying to come up from behind. Nice give and go and a score. Beautiful setup there. Get the ball to Patrick Hathaway. That's goal number three for the Blue Hawks. Yeah, exit was able to start the ball from the end line, take advantage of the short stick pretty easy as everybody's staring at the ball back by Hathaway. Able to catch and bury. Really nice play by Exiter. Again, we've seen a lot more life out of them this second half and the third quarter than we did all of the first half. So, it's great to see. I mean, you know, if you looking at the game by halves, exit's winning this half 3 to1. Absolutely. And I think
056they're winning the faceoff X as well as we see Exit with another procedure call getting a faceoff win. So Bland with it again. Exit in a position again to get this to a three-point game. [Music] Glenn takes it all the way behind X. Waits looks for an outlet. Finds a shadow. Balls loose. But Burwell finds it just in the nick of time. Shot there by Hathaway could have had a second goal. Yeah, good defense by Pinkerton. Hathway was open. Got disrupted just at the end. And Fwell again part so much as being a goalie. He's just standing strong and absorbing shots. Able to get his big body there and knock it down. Now, when the ball's loose in the crease, are you allowed to pull it out with your stick or is that uh no
057touch zone? So, if the ball's in this in the crease, you can go in and get it. You just can't put any part of your body in there. Oh, stick. Okay. The goalie has possession or has it under their stick. You cannot go check them. Here's Matt Germy. Got a couple goals today. Lost the stick, lost the ball. Call procedure on the uh Astros. for the Blue Hawks get the ball back with a chance now to add a fourth goal. Yeah, good help defense there by Exit causing Gormy to lose a stick with the ball in it. Procedure call. Exit ball. Sam Gibney comes out, joins his teammates along with Jackson Green. Green with the ball, gets a shot, scores. Nice move there. Jackson Green makes it 74. [Applause] Yeah, really nice play by Green.
058He got it. Big body. He was determined there. You could tell he was going to score. Took the Pinkerton defender Caleb Hobbin for a bit of a ride there. Slide came a bit too late. Green was able to bury it. Nice play. So, this game's getting more interesting now. Exit down just three goals. They've won this uh quarter four to one. See if they can win this face off. Ball still loose and they do. They come up with it. Great move. Shot and backed up. It's going to stay with Exit. Yeah, credit to Mroy. He's really found something out against Stingle in the faceoff X. He's won I don't know the last four or five as we see. Astros are going to get flagged here. Late call. Ball loose on the ground. Picked up by
059Lechner. Now Gennard. Late penalty situation here. Gard feeds it off front. Shot backed up by Exit. But now the penalty will be called. So exit will be man up here. 255 to play in the third. You know, he said there's no sixgoal shots, but uh you know, you keep putting enough of these onegoal shots in and game gets interesting pretty quick. Yeah, absolutely. Chipping away. And um I think Exit is really finding some some goodness coming from behind against the short stick. Really taking it to the Pinkerton defense who then gets them on their heels. And they're finding the open shooter, getting some pretty easy shots. Those were not available in the first half. If the Blue Hawks can get it down to a twogoal difference here, Collers will start getting tight on the uh
060Pinkerton side. There's a fake pass. Pass inside. Gard tried to fight his way through. Does maintains possession in the process. Kicks it out. Shot save. Ball loose. Picked up by the Blue Hawks. Alex Scott fires a shot. I don't know how they're going to call this backup exit. Yes, they will. And I think they've got another flag on number one on Pinkerton. Spencer Chomers with either a high hit or a late hit. Unnecessary roughness. And so we're going to see I believe we're going to see Picker down two men. Yeah, they've got two bodies in the box. Nathan Smith and Spencer Chomemers are both uh cooling their heels while the Blue Hawks are trying to make some make make something happen here. They got a big opportunity here. They can't squander it. Here's Green to
061Bland. Gard back to Green to Bland. Oh, that shot just misses the corner. Backed up though. That was good movement. Exctor with some patience finding the two-on-one. Green was the open guy. Just sailed it wide. Here's halfway shot. Oh, nice save by Got his stick on it. Astro still down two [Applause] on offense. It's short-handed. Yeah. Very nice clear from number 33. 30 just released, right? Yeah. I think we have one has been released. So it's five on six lacrosse now. No, one is still down. That's correct. Released 30. So it's five on six as Normandy tries to run out the rest of this penalty up to Frell. Here we are with six on six. Both of those penalties fired. Now the last minute of the third. [Applause] Frell stops, turns, fires shot from long
062range. backed up by the Oscars to overtake. 49 seconds to play. We've definitely seen the level of physicality increase from both teams. A lot of bodies ending up after passes and shots on the ground. Frell dropped that momentarily. Got it back up with it. Pascal. Good stick check there. Pascal picks it up. Turnover Astros are down the eighth. And Blue Hawks. AL still with it. Fires a shot. Saved by the Astles. Balls loose. Fired again and scores. Number 15 with the goal. Jackson Green. That's the second one in a row for Jackson Green. It's now 75 Astros. That goal coming with just 16 seconds remaining in this third quarter. Yeah, fantastic play by Green. I don't know how actually he kept that ball in his stick. Got to have some sore arms there that ran
063through maybe two or three pretty brutal checks. Found his way all the way around the crease to the other side of the goal. Still with the ball able to bury it. Very nice. Face off one by the Astros. They got 11 seconds to work with here. Pass up high. Here's a shot coming high. Misses everything. Two seconds to go here. Backed up by the Astros. They got one more pass to make. Maybe a shot. Waiting for the clock to start here. I think they're going to give them few more seconds. About a second and a half to make it 3.5 to go. Okay, they adjusted the clock. Right. Pass misses everybody. And that's the buzzer for the third quarter. [Music] [Applause] Well, that was all exit in that period. Five goals to one, making the
064game a lot more interesting. Starting at the 1149 mark, Tyler Bland scores, made it 6 to1. Griffin Gennard makes it 6-2 at the 943 mark. Then Matt Gormidy answers for Pinkerton. made it 7-2 at 7:32. Pat Hathaway responds for the Blue Hawks at 525 73. Jackson Green scored his two goals, one at 332, one with 16 seconds left. 4757. And there's where we are right now. One more period to go. 12 minutes of regulation play left. And we went from the uh from the exit Blue Hawks staring at elimination down 6 nothing to now you know within two goals of tying it. Yeah, absolutely. And I I think the hallmark of this comeback has been extended effort uh both out on defense as well as some really really solid play at the faceoff X. Will
065uh Mroy has been pretty stellar in that was stellar in that third quarter. has I don't want to say single-handedly, but he has absolutely given his team more than their fair share of possessions and they have capitalized with really strong play both coming from X and running uh from behind and having those skip passes and then some individual gems from Green and others who have taken it upon themselves uh to put the ball in the back of the net. So, exit with a ton of momentum here going in fourth. So, if you're the coach of the Astros, what do you tell your players here? So, you you had a bad period. Shake it off. Yeah, exactly. It's uh it's one of those things where you look at them all and say, "It's okay, guys." It's
066like the old Aaron Rogers. Just relax, everybody. Relax. It's okay. We can do this. We got seven We didn't get seven goals by accident, but we went away with from what we know, and that was when Pinkerton was extending and causing chaos and really clamping down on defense. And I I think that's what our coach is really going to focus on. Let's start at the faceoff X. Let's clamp on defense, and let's take care of the ball on offense. Mroy trying to win that faceoff and he does. Great move there. Mroy goes down, tries to maintain possession here. Ball is loose. Unfortunately, they turn it over there, but he was mugged. Yeah. And his team, all his teammates can do is watch. Yeah. Usually that type of play where a player goes down and struggles
067like that, usually it ends up in a in a call. But ref called it clean and called saw nothing there. So Tyler Barry tries to do the wraparound there and gets taken out in the process. Astros back it up. They maintain possession here. 75 Astros lead by two after leading by six at the half. Here's [Music] gets it across. Fires a shot. Oh, beautiful save there. Ron and Wilbur just just kept his eye on that and fouled it right into his net. Yeah, we had a great great look. It was off stick side high, but Wilbur just saw it all the way, read it, plucked it out of the air. Dormy on the right has his stick cracked in half. Has to come off and get another one. Lost control there. Astros come back with
068it. Now they return the favor. Turning the ball back over. Here's Alex Scott. [Applause] They've really seen some hectic play here from from both teams. Not necessarily taking care of the ball, giving the opponent new life. Here's Green take some abuse but keeping that ball protected. Here's Marshall Asawitz correction. That's Griffin Gennard tried to pass it. Is it going to go out of bounds? Can he chase it down? Managed to do it, but they only save it for the Astros. Here they come. Fast break shot inside the goal. Kyle Ushke, we haven't heard much from him all day, but there he is finally. Yeah, and this is what we saw Pickerton do in the in the first half is really take advantage of the unsettled situations and get the ball down quickly. Yeah, big body
069in there. Was able to to catch and kind of turn his back on the defender who was coming closing on him, have a wherewithal to put it behind before the hit came. Nice job by Pinkerton responding here when in honesty they needed to respond. They were back on the ropes. Well, that breaks the three-0 streak for the Astros and pushes the lead back up to three with 955 to play in regulation. Astros win that faceoff. Dylan Stingle brings it into the exit end. Here's Quinton. Tilliani the Garity number 12 Matt Gardy trying to get away from Forch takes a couple of shots manages to hang on to the ball. He's got a very interesting game. Little guy, but he is fearless running in and out of those holes. I think he got lifted up at
070that point, but still kept his balance, still kept the ball and made the pass. Here's Levi Wallace. put the ball on the ground. It's loose. Who's going to come up with it? Exit does get it back to Wilbur just to settle it down. Yeah, I think Levi Wallace did one half of the equation. He made the move, got inside, but hung his stick at the end. Couldn't get the shot off. Got back. Lever. Levi Weaver, I should say. Excuse me. Weaver. Sorry about that. Shot off the post there. close call. Good shot there by number 22 Pat Hathaway. Now Gennard gets it up high. Nice save. Shot by 15. Jackson Green. Yeah, I think Gavin uh Gavin Pwell was on his knees on that one and still made made the save. Read it low the
071whole way. So, the Astros fall down momentarily. Brady Blasa retreating back to his defensive position. [Music] Jackson Pharaoh waits for his teammates to join him. Mutiliani under eight minutes to play here in regulation. 85 Astros lead. Weaver comes out back, fires, turns and fires and Wilbur's ready for him. Makes the save now. The the Blue Hawks try to break out. Yeah, both of these goalies have outstanding games making some great individual saves, keeping their teams relatively close. Scott tried to get it to Pascal. He couldn't control it. Luckily, he was backed up there by 22. Hathaway. Hathaway still has it. Gets it up to Gibney. Lechner with it. Bland. Back to Bland. [Music] There's Gibney. Bland once again going down to his right side looking at the net instead passes it behind. Gennard controlling back
072to Hathaway. Haway gets it inside to Gibney. Gibney drifts away and a shot scored. Jackson Green. Yeah, Jackson two goal deficit. Jackson Green, sorry about that, Harry. Just unloaded uh from the sideline. I think the defense was a little bit slow to get over to him and rotate. I don't think he ne defender thought he was going to shoot, but Green had other plans and rips one past the goalie to make it a two-goal game. Jackson Green with the Hattie. Scored the last three goals here for the Exit Blue Hawks, keeping them in this game. 624 in regulation. 86 is the score. Don't go anywhere. [Applause] Ball's loose. Picked up by number two, Stingle. The Astros have it coming in fast. Down goes the Astros player. I believe that was Stingle. Yeah, he's going to
073draw a flag. Yeah, good play. It's funny. this uh this faceoff X is turning into a little bit of hand to hand combat as well as they try to get the ball out. But Stingle won that time was really running downhill forcing the issue and uh got hit as he was dropped with the ball gives his team a man up possession and I'll tell you you know short of a goal that's about as good as you can get from a faceoff guy winning the possession and giving your team the plus one. Nice individual effort by Stingle. So the Astros will begin with possession. 609 left in regulation. Weaver up to Germy. That's Quintiliani. [Applause] Weavery fires and scores. I thought that Wilbur had that. Yeah, I think he did as well. It was a low
074shot, you know, pretty well placed. I think it might have gone through the legs and it just caught a skip and a bounce just before it got to the goalie and confused him. But nonetheless, a huge goal for Pinkerton as we close in on five and 1/2 minutes left on the court in the game. I was a little surprised. I thought Wilber had that one from up here. Well, the Astros make a three-goal game again. 545 to plan regulation. Balls loose. Exit, I'm sorry. Uh, Pinkerton picks it up into the offensive zone. [Applause] Gormidy. Matt Gormid is being checked by Logan Schwaji. Loses the handle. gets it behind the net. Not coming up from behind. Tyler Barry coming up at the 5minute mark now. Barry still with it with the three-goal lead. Now this might
075be the time they start slowing things down. Barry one-on-one against his defender gets the pass inside to Matt Gormidy who scores. That's number three for Matt Gorbidity. Really nice cut and this kid's fearless coming through the middle of the of the defense into the teeth of it and rips one high. I think he's really brought a level of energy to this Pinkerton offense that they've sorely needed in the second half. moving pretty quick and and like you said the clock is Pinkerton's friend here up four. Love to see him if you're Pinkerton fan. Love to see them take a little bit more off. But again, if you're exit, you need a faceoff win here and you need to run downhill and get that ball in the goal quick. [Applause] Good pick up there by the
076Blue Hawks. Mroy balls loose on the ground. Wasted possession right there. [Applause] Will they say that exit holds on? Nope. Yeah, I think they will award it to to the to Pinkerton, right? No, I think Actor actually got a timeout. Oh, is uh it might have been a push, loose ball push, but you know, we said I just said they need the face off and run downhill and get the ball in the goal. They did one or two of those things. They won the faceoff, but big possession here with uh for Exiter. Maybe get some a play here. Get a really high percentage shot is what they're looking for. So, the winner of this game will take on Bishop Girtton Saturday night 7:00 for the Division One final. BG defeating Bedford earlier by a score
077of 12 to8. Wasn't that close though. Yeah, it's uh it's it'll be interesting for both of these teams just from a stylistic standpoint. We won't we don't know who's going to win this one, but when you look at the games, it's almost been a little bit of a difference in style where BG took the air out. We saw Pinkerton try to do that in the beginning of this game, but it has really been forced from exit ramping up the intensity, ramping up the physicality and really interesting to see this game morph into what it is now. It is absolutely high pace lacrosse here in New Hampshire. Well, they they had a fantastic third period that gave them a lot of momentum and then they answered when exits when the Pinkerton scored to keep it at
078a twogoal deficit. But since then, they've allowed two goals to the Astros and the time under 5 minutes, 433 to be exact. It's uh they got to find a way to get the get that scoring touch, get that momentum back. Exactly. It it expends a lot of energy to get a fivegoal run or something like that. And you can't get deflated when Bertton comes back and answers. Here it is. They got to erase all that and say, "Hey, we got we got four goals to go. This is the first one starting now. I'd like to see too some some movement. We've seen Green really prosper when he can get his hands free and if the case is needed, he's been able to take his defender one-on-one. Love to see the ball go through his stick.
079So Bland with the ball pass that was not played well, but Green was there, Johnny, on the spot to get the loose one. Yeah, and that's what you ask for your your seniors. Green gets d stick here. You know, he could have picked it up, but he didn't. And now the Astros have a fast break, but Wilbur erases that with a good uh stick save. Now Gibney for the A for the uh Blue Hawks. Fires a shot. Backed up as it goes wide. Gennard with it. for Exit and Exit pretty lucky here that they dodged that bullet of a huge momentum play uh as Pinkerton went down with the shot. But here they are again on offense trying to do right this time again forcing the ball in the middle of the green just not
080working. Not the Christmas they need to make an impression. Mo Burwell's able to pick that ball up. Now the Astros are on the attack. 322 left in regulation. [Applause] Matt Germy takes it behind X. [Music] [Applause] Time just ticking away now. We're under three minutes. Jackson Frell now absorbs a check. happy to just keep running around here. Yeah, we see exit really extending out trying to to make Pinkerton come up with some type of error, unforced error or forced. There's Weaver gives it the shot. Beautiful shot there. Number six, Kyle Yuskevich. He's wake he's waking up now. Yeah, great poise and discipline by Pinkerton. As we said, Exer was out throwing some lumber, trying to get the ball on the ground. Pinkerton weathered it, kept her feet moving, and eventually you can't keep up that
081pressure and uh not expect someone to be open. Scavic was the guy on the spot. Really nice feet and finds and finish by Bingleton. Well, the Astros have woken up and extended that lead back out to five. They had as much as six in the first. And there's a missed opportunity there on the faceoff. Ball still loose on the ground. Exit had a couple of chances at it. Now they lose them and instead of going on the attack they just drop it back to their keeper to reset possession. 218 to go here in regulation. It's 116 for the Astros. Yeah, we haven't really called their names, but the uh defenders of of Pinkerton have done a really nice job putting pressure and getting the ball on the ground. Um, and they've also done a nice
082job handling the ball and clearing it. You see yet another unforced turnover by Pinkerton. Yeah, a little misplay there. Exit gets the ball back. Oh man, they tried to get it inside to Gennard. Couldn't quite finish that play. Absolutely. That was the one. They had Gennard wide open. Just could not handle that pass. He would have been one-on-one with a goalie who was trying to backpedal back into his cage. 90 seconds left in regulation. Matt Gormidy protecting the ball loses it. Gets checked off. What's the call here? They're going to give it over to Exit. Ball out of bounds. Yeah, I think he was playing the ball from out of bounds there. Nice defense by number 23 to dislodge it for exit Logan. Bad pass up to Alex Scott. Winds up going out of bounds.
083Turnover exit. Pinkin gets the ball back with 113 to play in regulation. They can just burn the clock out here and close it out. [Music] And what are we going to do? We got a timeout. I think so. Postpone the inevitable here. That's right. Couple interesting games here. I mean, bet the Bedford game, you know, it uh it it was actually they both kind of follow the same script. You had BG jump out early. Bedford responds. Actually took a lead, kept it tied until late in the second, but then BG went on the the scoring streak, seven in a row. Blew the game wide open. Bedford got a couple of late ones to make it seem closer than it was here. Very slow start. First period, only one goal. Second period, all Pingerton. They had
084a six nothing lead going into the half. And then boom, third quarter, out comes Exit. and they just explode for five goals. They won that period 5 to1. They got all the momentum. Then at uh checking here at 624 this period, Jackson Green kept it at two goals. It was 8-6. So they were still in this game, but since then four straight goals by the Astros have just blown this wide open. Yeah, it's a great reminder that that momentum and hustle and and emotion can take you a long way, but it can't be the only thing. I think in both cases Bedford and and here exit haven't quite taken care of the ball and the possessions as they should have and they needed to and so sometimes that emotion like I said can't take you
085all the way. I I think that's where exit lost the game was you know not any specific play but just overall their ball security early and late absolutely really hurt them. There's a turnover. Little jump ball action there like the NBA. And then they turn that into a goal just like that. Out of chaos, out of chaos. Yeah. Comes order. Another goal. There's there again on the spot. High bouncing ball. Was able to to gather it as everybody else was looking at where it was going. Caught the goalie looking somewhere else and was able to throw it low. Put yet another goal and now extend the lead to six. Yeah, that's going to be the dagger. Now it's just uh 56 seconds just a formality and this uh end regulation and advance to Saturday. Yeah,
086it's kind of funny too. You're talking about the two games the Bedford game versus BG probably wasn't as close as the score. This one actually might have been the score suggests it was much more of a blowout when it really wasn't. Right. Um really well contested game. Little tie up at the center field, but the ball will go to the Astros so they can just run it out here. 53 seconds to go. back to the net. Oh, little misplay there. Luckily, he didn't tip it into his own net. [Applause] 40 seconds to play. Quintonelli, I should say, still with it. Gets it out front. Now we're going to draw a flag. [Applause] Jeff Gormidy with the ball. They're going to stop the clock and send the exit player off. That's number seven. Mroy going off.
087Yeah, really an unnecessary hit, was finishing through. Maybe you could call it a hard play, but it just completely unnecessary when the player had ball was clearly away. Mroy came high, went after him, and I think he is going to rightfully probably a locked in penalty here. Yeah, two minute two-minute call on him. That's going to pretty much finish his night. [Music] Uh, looks like they've got both of them. So, Mroy for exit has a two-minute unnecessary roughness locked in, excuse me, or foul. And then umi must have been saying something. Got a one minute locked in unsportsmanlike. So it looks like we're going to play five on five across here for the next or for the rest of the game in 26 seconds. Play resumes as Frell takes it behind X. Changes direction. Tries
088to get away from his man. Will he just let it go? Yep. He decides to add one more. Carol decides to pan his status a little. Yeah, not not totally necessary. However, you can't fault a kid for he beat his man. Came open in front of the crease. Really nice shot. I think that hit the crossfire went down and then uh off the back of Wilbur and finally got in. 14 seconds left. 13 to six. Goal number 13 coming with 14 seconds to play. And uh it's all but over right now. I think this is where the refs just have to make sure it stays clean. Get through the next 14 seconds. Let Exer enjoy the what's left of their season and Pickerton get ready to move on to the next [Applause] ball loose on
089the ground. Picked up by the Blue Hawks. Pascal tries to pass it forward. 5 seconds left. Four. A weak shot toward the goal. Picked up by the keeper. And that's it. The Astros number one seed. They advance to take on the number two seed, Bishop Gerton Cardinals, right here 700 p.m. at Bill Ball Stadium. Yeah, as we talked about, really good both games. Uh, credit to both teams here. A lot of seniors playing their last game on the exit side. Again, young men who represented their team and in school very well. Uh, happy for them and what they do next. And Pinkerton really welldeserved, earned game. We'll see them on Saturday in the finals. Yeah, you know, the Exit Bluehawks uh gave their fans uh something to be thrilled with. The third quarter was was
090all them, and it really looked like they were going to play their way back into this game, but it wasn't enough. The Astros responded and closed the door, scoring the uh last five goals of the game, pulling away with a uh seven-point win, 13-6. So, that's going to do it for here, Blue Hawk Media. Thank you very much for having us on your telecast. I'm Harry Kazlowski, Jay Abbid Ross, my color commentator, Andrew Fen producing, uh, Bill Jennings on camera. We'll call it a night. Good night, everybody. Thanks all. [Music]