001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Hello everybody and welcome to Rivier University in NSHA, New Hampshire for this division 1 boys high school lacrosse clash between Bishop Girtton hosting the Exit Bluehawks on a sundrenched What was it? A Wednesday afternoon here at Rivier. John Collins along with Rich Mcdana and Tom King. And Tom, we expect a uh a tough matchup here for for maybe exit. BG's on a roll. Yeah, BG is
002on a roll. I mean, they played some of the out of state games have gotten the better. They play I mean, you look at three teams in the state that are always going to challenge BG, right? Pinkerton, exit, and Bedford. So, it's a choice. Which one is going to be the team that they're going to have to play in the finals? That's the way you look at it. It all depends on the seedings and everything else. Now, they played the game first time they played out at the sea coast 14 to8 final. We'll see how today goes. Rich Mcdana, you're our go-to guy on the backgrounds on just about everybody out on the field. I known a few have coached a bunch. Yeah. And uh tell us about the the the net minders in this
003game. Good good matchup here. um uh the heir to uh the great Will Murphy and my own boy Mike Mcdana as Jonah and boy I'll tell you a rocket shot early for uh exitor we'll talk about their productivity guys but that was only 48 seconds in and it's one zip uh right on Q when I was saying Jonah Feliciano in the cage and he's a really good goalender he's up and coming and had big shoes to fill but he's done a terrific job they haven't lost I think in 64 games in state four seasons The four-time defending champs come in at 11-4, 10-0, third in the NH New Hampshire standings. Number one unanimous in their poll. Exit 12 and five, two-2 in state. They're fourth place in number four. And this is a battle for
004seating in the top four. The top four teams won't change, but the seedings can. Exit needed a hot start. They got one and a flag down. Yeah, it looked like BG won that draw and the flag against Exit. So, the Cardinals have a chance to tie things up. That was a combination of Tyler Bland and Alex Scott that came up with that exit goal. I'm not sure which one of the two actually put it in the net, but uh it was a quick strike for the Blue Hawks. And Tyler Bland, he's wearing number 32. He's a really good attackman. I had him pegged as one of our go-to guys for exit today. But BG's really good in the manup and it's a minute man up and it was on Bland. Actually, Cam Hayden was behind
005the goal. He gets it all the way up to the top where Hudson Schmidt is at the point. Exiter steals it. Uh kind of a careless handling there around the frame and the Blue Hawks charge downfield. We saw a good team that did not play well when we saw them play BCI, but they've been playing very well since. But this is one of those barometer games, right? Got another delayed flag that'll go against BG this time. Yep. I expect to hold this and chew off their penalty. Only 20 seconds left. That wouldn't be the good strategy. Sam Gibney with it up top being checked by Ryan Baker of BG. And it does look like exit is content to just hold this thing. Oh yeah. Until they gain the man advantage. And now you got a
006possession. Um you're you're five on six for the moment. Unless it was off sides. Uh 1 2 3. Yeah. the uh so they'll have that full penalty. They want to take every second they can get a good look at it no matter what. And then you go to man up after all that work. It is a beautiful day here at Rivier. Tom King recovering from about what the month of May which was just miserable. Oh I tell you what though you don't want sinus infections are a plague. Yeah. And this was the month to get them. Yeah. you had, you know, you you knew how I felt that that day against girls against exit and I'm better now than I was then, but it it took a long time. That's for sure. Still not 100%.
007You're still feeling it, but we can't really hear your voice anymore. That's good. Yeah, exit are looking for a shot now, but they can't get it away. Good defense pre from letting one fly at the goal. Yeah, nice trail check there. Uh kind of dodge a bullet right there cuz he had a good look at it, John. And he's got a good cannon from there. And we have identified him pregame as one of their, you know, leading seniors. Jackson Green. Yeah. Looked like there was an infraction against BG. So Exit regains possession in the person of Patrick Hathaway. The Exit team that couple years ago played BG in three years ago played BG in the finals and thought that they had a good shot of winning it and didn't and they basically after they lost
008they stormed off the field. They were not happy. Exit victimized by an inseason sweep by Bedford. That looked like it might have went off the post. It did. That was green again. You heard iron. You heard it. Yeah. So, exit was swept by Bedford. They're trying not to get swept by BG after losing to the Cardinals on April 23rd, 14-8. Yeah, I called that game. Yeah, it was good. It was close close and then BG pulled away in the in the end. But their skill they they just killed a man down. It was only 30 seconds. So, in comes a real good player for them as Bolinogren. Yep. He looks like he could push some people out of the way without a doubt. Now watch for Marshall Lazawitz buried in number 11. He's been dinged
009up here and there. Tyler Bland hits the turf and the loose ball is picked up by the Cardinals. Good play by Noah Guerrera. We have to adjust because that that would have been a foul at girls girls lacrosse, right guys? Certainly would. Oh, without a doubt. Yeah. No doubt about it. and flipping the field quickly with the long passes. The Cardinals looking to score their first goal of the game. They've been shut out through the first se where their transition game is their key. They've had some years where they're basically set up offense is their key. Which year is this, Rich Mcdana, from what you've seen? I think it's a mix of both. Uh they've got really good shooters, a bunch of lefties. Um Owen King wearing number one. He's headed to Le Moine and
010Cam Hayden number six is going to Penn State who was in the final four as we all saw this past weekend. Um but you can't turn the ball over but they have great runners. Tom, you've seen this over the years. BG fortunate there. There was a return pass from Hudson Schmidt. Yeah, that was careless and it was uh the recipient was unaware that it was on the way to him and they turned it over after all with the chance to go up two to nothing. Now you got to squeeze him. Chase him. Oh, see you missed an opportunity on the approach with Tyler Mloud there. Number 17. They should have stuck with the squeeze. They had him down in the dirt. You chop that ball out of that stick and go. Here comes Alex Scott
011from the high slot. Face left, goes right, gets stickked away by Cam Hayden. That was good D. And now Exit will reset up top. Michael Panto, excuse me, um Sam Gibney with it for That's good D right there. Yeah, good check by Mloud. Tyler Mloud and he's got it. Now you got to get that ball up, put it away or walk the dog. Get it away from pressure. Get some BG needs to settle possession here. Then you should just take a breath, not hyperventilate. Get back in rhythm. Sorry, Rich. As much of a beating as um we saw BG take from Boston College. Tyler Mloud was a highlight in that game. I recall number 17, the defender. What's the shot right there through the defenders? Wanted to go low but held thought better of it.
012I'm loving Exitor's pressure right now. Yeah, they're they're making if you watch every BG player who wants to take a shot, he thinks before he does it and then pulls back. Well, they're they're packed in in there's a big gun and that one misses. Cam Hayden just held on to it too long. And and Rich, I I kind of disagree with you. I think what BG needs is a quick goal, a transition goal, lay an easy layup. I I I think that their their settle their their offense is just, you know, they're not confident right now. Yeah, we all need transition goals. There's no doubt about it. But what but they had it in their offensive third and just like get into some rhythm here. Get your sticks, start feeling in your pockets, and then
013you feel good about the rest of the game. Exit looking like they're an impenetrable force on defense here. BG looking for a way to solve it. That 3-3 zone is tough. And here you got a coma slide right there. Here comes save. Wow. Big save. We had a good angle on that shot by Owen King. I'm standing at an angle right behind Owen King and that was just a shot that was that was zipped. But he he got to change planes. He had upper near corner. Ron and Wilbur stood fast in the net and just deflected that away like it was nothing. I I if I'm BG, I want to get Wilbur moving and get a bounce shot. Sure. Yeah. He saw that one and there was no threat of a of a one-time. See
014that? See that uh kind of matchup zone right there? As soon as they as soon as they position where they're at the top of the slot, zone. You got to overload. Got to get some scenes. That's a good ride by Jeremy Warren. Yeah, Coach Mack might have coached him thousand years ago. And a win Warren as he gets the ball back. He's a great kid. This is Panto. Oh, that's fakes the pass, shoots wide. That's what changes your mindset in the game. It's about getting good looks. Owen King out of the corner, finds Cam Hayden. And now it's up top to Hudson Schmidt again. Now they're starting to work the seams in the zone. If you're exit, you're thinking we should have the ball right now cuz we just gave it away after we after
015we, you know, our goalie made a save. The other thing is this extended possession. There you go. And Cam Haydens passed Owen King. Not quite a one-timer, but it looked like another maybe a kick save by the goalie. No, no, he caught his stick and went wide. Yeah, it bagged out in his pocket and hit the throwing shooting strings. Um, so I tell you what, this turf is going to be about 100°, fellas. Um, I'll tell you when I'm down there. Oh yeah, please do. You'll be 10 lbs lighter. I promise you. But right now, I've already lost 10 lbs this morning. Ex lost three lbs per man on D and they're going to be gassed. That's a great hitch and move. Holy cow. Upper left corner by Cam Hayden gets Bishop Girtton on the
016board. A perfectly placed shot to tie it at 1-1. And that's why he's going to Penn State. Yep. It came about 8 minutes after exit scored, but it was worth the wait. Yes, it was. Tom mentioned being out in the heat this morning. The Nasha Silver Knights began their season this morning and uh they ran into one player we've uh seen before, Jackson Marshall for Worcester. Right, Tom. Jackson Marshall put a moonshot to left field three-run homer. It was a difference in the game. The all world Pinkerton stand out who is now in college and uh still doing damage now with a woodbat. We look forward to doing those Nasha Silver Nights games. We've got Tim, excuse me, Dylan Smith on camera along with Michaela Savageo. Our executive producer Pete Johnson is alongside and uh
017we welcome you on a 3:00 start here on a Wednesday afternoon. Just a beautiful day in NSHA. One to one. This game has started out very promising fashion. This team's looking well matched right now. And that faceoff match up there was key. You know, Mroy is terrific for Exit and Paulo Vasquez going to be he's beaten Vasquez twice. Right. Right. And uh I think Mroy is going to Army, but he's not playing there. He had committed to St. Mike's. But what an honor to go to West Point. Charging toward the goal is Griffin. Hey, a little joust there and we'll see what happens. Got to have your You can't keep playing without the glove or what have you. Safety issue. That's important on the restart. I love I love it. It's a safety issue, but
018when the ball's coming at you 100 miles an hour, you got no padding. N we we live for that. We live for it. We goalies live for it. Kills me. Absolutely kills me. More A little bit of a switch right there. Oh, and they unswitched. That was trouble if they had been able to uh reverse the ball cycle right there. We also welcome our exit viewers on Bluehawk Media as we do the simalcast deal today. I've done a few jobs for them. Great people over there. Exit moving the ball around the perimeter and Tyler Bland passes it off to Sam Gibney. Gibney being stick wide by Jordan O'Harn. Yep. I see your three-3 zone and match you and toward the pipe but not able to fully come past the goal line. That's good D by
019Steinbrook but we got a flag probably a push or ref said something after the Yeah, they would not. He said something after the call, right? That's going to be one minute then. So that's a unsportsmanlike. Yeah. Trotting off in the depending on the coarseness of the language, it could be locked in. We don't know yet, but we'll watch. Uh that's a quick that's a quick fuse. Yeah, it looks like number 15 Jackson Green that got penalized. Yeah, it's just a common unsportsmanlike to the sideline. So Bishop Girtton with their next best chance to go up by a goal in a 1-1 game. The first one was hard to come by. Uh so it was a delay of game for throwing the ball out of the uh zone. Oh, there you go. Yeah, there you go.
020I wish the scores table were in front of us. it here. Around the perimeter it goes. BG looking for another shot. They got to get into this quickly with a 30-second penalty. Bang in front. Oh, that was a great opportunity. Missed. Yeah, I saw that rotation. Bishop Girtton still has it. Michael Panto. That's the one thing Bishop Girtton has done in this game. Good loose balls activity. Ground balls. They picked up a few. 5 seconds left on the man up. Cam Hayden. Will he shoot again? tried to pass it and it was Colin Foley that was down low and a shot and a goal. There you go. Right over the top. Owen King got it. Yeah, it was Owen. Owen King. Yeah, he got in deep, got possession and went right over the top of
021the net minder. You know, those are dangerous moments. you come off the um man up and yeah, it's technically all even, but the guy's got to run in from the center of the field and it's kind of like hockey when the guy gets out of the sin bin. It's a dangerous moment. The D is gassed and you're not you're not quite yet all even until you pull up and the score comes out of your blind spot. Yeah, really Mroy came to play today. Terrific player all state right from the opening draw. Exit's been winning a lot. This might be one of the topics of conversation in the timeout that's been called. Well, they didn't waste any time. I mean, timeout with less than a minute to play in the quarter. So, they want to set
022their defense. Well, I I'm a fan. Yeah, that's what they're doing. They want to set their defense here. And I assume that did exit call it or did Yeah, I assume that Rich may know uh the rule here. If you don't have the ball, can you call timeout only if it's a dead ball? Right. It wasn't in their ball. Yeah. So, Exit called it. And here's the philosophy. You know, fourth year coach Matt Brewster. So, he he he has possession. They've been winning faceoffs. Uh BG just took the lead. This is an important offensive possession. Yeah. Only 48 seconds, but what comes in 48 seconds? Another break. So, he's saving. This is me coaching, but I think it's reasonable. You know, you get another break and then you get rested legs by the time you
023come out of the first second quarter break. So, do you tell your players um wait to take the shot? Yeah, I think you want to go motion 15 20 seconds. You know, we say 15 if it's college ball. 20 seconds you go into motion. What you don't want to do is leave time for transition goal by BG, right? And if you're on defense, I think you might be pressured to, you know, force an error in that first 30 seconds of the possession or so. You know, turnovers are fresh bread. Yeah. cuz sometimes if you try not to shoot, if you try not to go on the attack, you can make mistakes. Yeah, they're going to kill a little clock here before they get into their motion. And BG is putting the pressure on and nearly
024had a steal there from Baker who stepped up. Yeah, they want to they want them to kill clock. That's a pretty good carry down the alley right there by uh it was Bland. Yeah, Tyler Bland had it. He passes it off to Patrick Hathaway. Haway is a good player. He's being guarded closely by Eli Zean in front. No. Jonah sat on it like he was hatching an egg and then and here you go. 15 seconds. You got time. Enough time. Plenty of time. The defender. Oh, that's a heck of an athletic catch. Yep. It is off. Otherwise, that would have chewed up about 8 seconds going after the ball. 5 seconds. Look at wide open shot. That was a good opportunity for BG will end. I'm going to tell you, Owen King, that's his second
025uh non-change of planes right there. So, he's shooting from the mid hip and he's not changing the height of the shot and the goalie right now. Wilbur is reading that. Ronan Wilbur had a pretty good first quarter. He gave up two goals, but it's a team where you could give up uh you know, two goals a minute the way they can score, but not so far this afternoon. John Collins with Rich Mcdana and Tom King here at Rivier University in NSHA where we're uh very happy to be here. It's a great venue. Nick Perinick is the athletic communications director and a darn good one. Yeah, he's hooked us up again. Pete Johnson alongside and uh last game of the season for Exit and tomorrow right back at it for Bishop Girtton. are playing at London
026area in a 6:00 game. Yeah, this is uh get them all in now while you can because Saturday is going to be a wash out. So, if any game get moved from a few from like last weekend's wash outs to Saturday, then probably out of luck. So, I mean, right, this is this has been a bad couple of weeks to try to fit everything in. The big game is on Friday with um uh Pinkerton at Bedford. Pinkerton's top seed, Bedford the two seed and and that's going to be interesting, you know, for seedings in the tournament, 18 tournament in D1. I think the best final, my own opinion, the best final would be BG Bedford again as it was last year. Uhhuh. But the way the seedings are, that may not happen. They may be
027if they're both in the 23, that's not going to happen. They may knock each other one. No, they're going to have to play each other in the semis. Yeah. Right. So they'll knock each other off before the final, but they'll they'll have to play in the semis. You want that, I think, right now. Although this is a pretty good game right here. You'd want that in the final, but we'll see see how good play Exit plays today. And maybe they could be the team that, like I said, one of three teams is going to have to face G in the finals. Which one will it be? The big question mark there is uh the Actton Boxboro uh game for BG was uh you know, a monsoon and it's yet to be determined whether it's going
028to be a post cancel or a forfeit and that'll could affect the points. Just doesn't seem fair to call it a forfeit. I mean, they've got to wrap up their season by Monday per Massachusetts rule. So, um we'll see. We'll see. That's why we read the Telegraph on Monday morning. Think I'll find out and ask the guy who's right down the road from you. I'll slip somebody a 20 and see if I can get some recon. That's good passing out of that. Nobody tells me. Nobody tells me anything anymore. Good win on the draw by Paulo Vasquez. That's why he's going to play D1 down in Maryland at UNMBC. Wasn't easy, but he got some help, too, from his teammate Tyler Mloud to pick up the loose ball. Love Mloud's game. All right, guys. Dad,
029I'm going to go for the second quarter and I'll catch you at halftime. All right, hurry back. Tom King, thank you. Around the net it goes and BG with the best chance to score the first goal of the second quarter. Good steal though by Alex Scott. Huge anticipation. Yeah. And he's off to the races down the near sideline. Those long passes are deadly sometimes. Exit was in speedy transition. Now they'll pull it back and set it up. Graham Knight with it out near midfield waiting for personnel to shuffle in. And he hands it off to Tyler Bland to run the show. Bland being marked carefully by Dom Bolino, number 36. Great kid, Bolino. And the matchup. Well, Gibney, I like him going down the ice. Rangy player as you can see right there. He's got
030those long strides and then they're they're terrific getting it through X to set up shop right there. Good poke check. Oh, nice job by looked like Zean. Zean knocked it out of Patrick Hathaway's control for a moment. He recovers. Back it goes to the top of the slot. Number 32 is Tyler Bland. He's had probably the most touches for exit so far in this contest. Falin just really good short stick defender. Gennard passes it in front. Shot is off the turf and over the net. Yeah, you know what happened? It got stuck in the webbing at the top of his cross there. John, that's exactly what happened. Zachary Sprag wanted just to shoot it right into the goal and it ended up spiking it. Well, yeah. It just caught the shooting string and you see
031him looking at it when he's Yeah, he did a grunk spike with it. He just he needed to score the touchdown first. But yeah, look at the great feet by uh Steinbrook. Terrific athlete. He's a quarterback, a human Swiss Army knife for the football team. Andre Steinbrook, sophomore, one of the talented players for both of these teams. Great athlete and ferocious. I mean, he will give you 130% on the reactor anytime. That's Jeremy Warren all the way back up top again to Hudson Schmidt. Far side. Cam Hayden back to Schmidt. Always a threat to score. And so is Cam Hayden's got the sniper goal early. Gets rid of it after falling. Heads up. What a What a pass from his seat, huh? Yes. Oh my goodness. Another long lazy pass. Foot race. This is going
032to make it to midfield. That's shoveled back in by Bishop Gin, but away from a teammate and taking some hits as he tries to pick it up is exits Graham Knight. This is like watching a U1 game right now. Ah, finally backed it out. That was good job by Lechner. And he's going to back it up to Fletcher Navo. Navo with it, sprinting toward midfield. Owen King is there to greet him. I said they're having a difficult time coming out of their own end. And now they do. Yeah, that's good. You got 20 seconds to get it over the midline in the air. You don't have to come down with it as long as Oh, they did they didn't make it. They did not. Uhhuh. Yeah. So that they missed by about two seconds. Yeah.
033It was a good ride. Good ride. Good ride. Shot goal. Wow. Great feed from Tyler Mloud as he finds Owen King for his second. Quick strike goal for Girtton after they played great defense. a fullcourt press to keep exit in their own zone for a time violation and before exit could really shake off that basically turnover. It is. It is. BG was on top of them. Well, they were whistle ready. They were whistle ready and ready to go on a quick restart. And that's that's just coaching and it's, you know, it's it's owning the game. When you're whistle ready on those quick restarts, uh, look out because the D won't have time to set hasn't set up yet. Will Mroy with a big faceoff win for Exit coming off of the giving up that goal
034and being down now three to one trying to styy the BG momentum. Exit scored first in this game and now BG scored three unanswered as we play early second quarter. Wrestling his way away from Tyler Mloud is Alex Scott. Maroyy's won four of six faceoffs already. That's pretty impressive. Gibney gets escorted wide by Noah Guerrera trying to come out from behind the net. Make a play. Nice switch. Nice slide. Warren having all kinds of trouble with Colin Foley. He's an excellent defender and also one of the captains of this team. Foley is I know they have long sticks as defenders. Foley looks like it's double. There's a shot from distance. Well, he's got those long rangy arms. Maybe cuz it's a a dark colored stick. I don't know. It just looks like it's almost illegal.
035Well, he's he's not the biggest dude on the clean the pool with that the bottom of the pool. It might be. Hey, whatever advantage you can get. There's a there's a good shot. I thought uh number 14 is Sam Gibney. He seemed to go low and get a nice uh bounce. Yeah. Up past the goalie. And Jonah Feliciano in the cage. He was all over it. He just didn't get the blade down to the turf in time and it squirted right underneath it. Yeah, it did. It came up after contact and got over the goal line on an apparent deflection andor a bounce. So it is a 321 goal game as we get back to the allimportant draw at midfield and a foot race for the loose ball. Still a 50/50 ball in traffic. Squirts
036loose. This is this a great battle right here. This this ball has not been possessed since it came from the mid circle. fully and it still isn't. Nobody's giving up on this. I I just admire the hustle. You know, you got all Americans out there and um you saw what happened to Jeremy Warren right there. He dropped his stick. You can't play without your stick. You know, unlike hockey, you got to get your stick and get back in it or get off the field. Tyler Bland for exit number 32 ended up with it after that loose ball was contested for about a full I don't know 15 to 20 seconds easily. That was just gutsy by Exit. Almost a steal. Jackson Warren got in the passing lane but Exit somehow retains possession. And Zachary Sprag
037passing with Tyler Bland. Bland running the show once again being defended fiercely by Jackson Warren. A shot misses to the left. That was an idea there for Tyler Bland, but not accurate. It's interesting when they uh when they go to any kind of zone or matchup zone. They they don't look as fluid BG. Uh so we'll see how how long this persists. All right, they're they're in man now. 6 minutes. I mean, Exit is making its game plan here. They don't want a game in the in the mid- teens. They don't want a shootout. No, no, you don't want to get in a track meet against Bishop Gen uh at all. So, uh, Coach Brewster in his fourth year, he's um, you know, I've talked to him a bunch of times. Good man, good philosophy,
038and, um, you know, this kid's buy in. Sam Gibney has it. He's going around the whole edge of the offensive zone. Now with it is Patrick Hathaway from out behind the net. stumbles on the check and a takeaway. Good defense. Eli Zean again, but not you don't give up. And look, Exiter has no give up today. I love it. Girtton with a nice transition up the field. There's been a lot of halfcourt offense and not much end to end action. And again, BG Sty before they can take it all the way to the house. Pick up. They need a little bit of settle right now. Michael Ponto trying to get his way toward the net. Good defense there by exiters's Fletcher Navo. Well, whatever uh coach um uh Brewster's game plan, you know, I we
039can see it obviously, but they're executing it extraordinarily well. This is a excellent first half effort by the Blue Hawks. Cam Hayden hands it off to Michael Panto and Hudson Schmidt. And then look at the knockdown, John. Owen King's Sh pass is intercepted. Loose ball. No communication on the turf. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of a blind pass there to no one in particular. And well, exit comes away with it. Owen King was the trail for that loose ball right there. He should have said 5 yardds back. 5 yards back, you know, but he was real close. And any kind of goose that you throw behind you, it's going over his head. I misspoke. It's BG's ball still. Cam Hayden with it. He has scored a goal from about that angle. No room to breathe on that
040possession. I think they got to get this guy turned loose. TDY Schmidt. He hasn't taken many shots. He's great athlete. He He'd been banged up. Oh, that's a good head fake. Hayden double teamed. Collapsing defense. It's on the turf and Exit sprints away with it. And I'll tell you what, that's Gibney. He's got some wheels. He is flying down the numbers. Score. That is end to end action. And it favors Exit this time with a spectacular goal. Sam Gibney with the loose ball scoop and score after about a 60 70 yardd sprint. So there's no give up. There's it's all hustle for the fellas wearing blue today. You saw the suffocating and collapsing defense right there. Nobody's giving up on a ground ball or a check. And then Gibney with that uh coast to coast
041job right there, but nobody from BG moved. Consider grinding it out in this first half. They are dead even with BG. Three-3 and that's another win for Po Vasquez on the draw. And they need him to go 80% the rest of the way. Vasquez cuz um Maroy came to tee it up today at the dot. 80% that's pretty high. Hey, I'm asking asking a lot of my all American hickey. You sure are. Near side Michael Panto being escorted behind the goal by Griffin Lechner. Panto looking for an open teammate. I keep saying Panto is wearing 14, which was Mike Mcdana's number. It's uh it's weird to see him not engage. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Good possession here for BG as we hit the 3minute mark. And that is not a good possession. Skyball and uh
042Ken Hayden is not going to grow that quickly that you know that much that and I tell you that is a frustration timeout to talk it over by coach Brian Cameron after inheriting the keys from uh his dad the great Chris Cameron Hall in my opinion hall of fame caliber coaching career. So, how's it going for Brian in his first season? Very talented young man. He played at Rutgers in North Carolina. Uh, multiple time all-American here in champion. And, um, you know, I've coached in to Tomahawks with him and he's got the gift. And so, Rich BG has a record of 11 and four. Those are all outofstate opponents. Out of state. Yeah. They lost to Staples, Darianne, BC High, and St. John's Prep. Danvers. I mean, if they kept it in state, they could
043potentially be undefeated. They don't want to. You don't want to do that. No, we want to play uh more competition, broaden our horizons. We got seven kids committed to college competition with those and I'm a big fan of Marcus Craig while Darian, you know, I used to play down in that neck of the woods. Played Daren years ago. We got him 11. Yeah. But um what school were you at? Greens Farms back when we had a team the uh but um and they're on the rise again. So um look, that's a hot bed down there, but you want to take on these competitions. You're gonna take an L. you're gonna get a win, you know, uh, and that's it's good for you ultimately. You play in better competition. They whipped Zeian Brothers a couple weeks
044back. Nice. And you just get better when you when you play better teams, you get better. And you can't uh get all in a funk about an L. You just can't. Yeah. Because um even if you're the last seed in the tournament, if you're still Bishop Girtton and you're the last seed because you played, you know, semi-pro teams, you can still run the table and win the championship. Let's not have them do that yet cuz they might beat a semi-pro team, but they'll come out of that with a Red Cross unit. But I get what you're saying. So, you know, and also, you know, you don't you don't really learn learn from many mistakes if you're just winning 22 to to one, you know, also it just overall longterm it builds the quality of your
045program. More kids want to come and play and play your and join your club teams in in the summer and fall. That's Rich Mcdana. Tom King. Exit's uh grinded out this first half. It's 3-3. They've been physical on defense. That's why they've disrupted the rhythm that Girtton was trying to get in that first quarter in this second quarter. They have just disrupted everything. Even when Girtton's been able to maintain possessions on a loose ball, but you saw the big goal, the knockdown, the steal, the turnover, the fast break, all in one play. But here comes a Tiger ride. Sam Gibney with the highlight goal of the game for Exit there to tie it up. Yeah, look at this ride. It's really a high octane ride, but great spacing and poise by Exit. They're ready for
046it downfield. Tyler Bland has it. Exit. Look at that skip shot right there. Save. Wow. Jonah Feliciano, he needed that one. I think it also ricocheted off the pipe. Yeah, you're right. Sam Gibney went low left, but he and Jonah got the first piece of it. So, good job. You know, sometimes when you're out of rhythm as a goalie, you just get that ugly save. No matter how, you know, you'll take it. It's not a snapshot and you want to publish, but it makes you feel good. Exiter putting the pressure on here, looking for a go-ahead goal. They were up one to nothing and then BG scored three unanswered. Yeah. Oh, you just the ground balls up. And there's another save. Great save, that's for sure. Yeah, Jonah needed that one. All right, you got
047numbers here. If he can go, put the put the accelerator down. Get your spacing right. Spacing was not right. Wasn't right. It actually got back very quickly. Yep. Tom, you were talking about the goalies and not being patted. That one hurt. You could tell it's still uh Jonah Feliciano is uh been trying to shake off that shot since uh it happened. And uh I tell you the lifetime of playing goalie with the bare legs. That's why I don't go to the beach much in the summer. I think I got him in the right arm. Still ugly. Yeah. Yeah. Where sweats? Where's sweats? Never warm. Sweats. Is it hot down on the field, Tom? Uh, it's not bad. No, cuz it's it's sunny. I mean, it's it's warm, but I mean up here it's a nice
048breeze off the back of the net penalty. It's going to be interesting. Oh, yeah. Against exit. So, looks like Gibney's going off. Yeah, that's a key player. So, so you saw that BG was playing six on seven right there. So if you're offside, you just stay offside. Go play defense. There's no sense because you're going to get the penalty. You're going to get called anyway, right? Exactly. But what you don't want your your teammate can't go offside or for you otherwise you get two man down. So I'll tell you what, this is a much closer game than I think a lot of people expected. Uh me, too. Yep. All right. Here you go. Nice rotation to start. Spin move by Panto. Passes it. Olen King has it. He's got a couple of goals. Two out
049of the three scored by BG. I tell you, exit is man down rotation right now is fluid. It's really nice. Hudson Schmidt all the way behind the goal it goes. And they killed it off. Yeah, even strength goal. And that's what I was talking about. No, it hit the the crossbar. I thought I saw the net flinch. The net did flinch, but it was off the post. He hit through. He shot it so hard. There goes the flag. [Applause] There's some people upstairs that are right below me that say that they think it went in. I do too. I thought that was upper corner. I'm telling you, I saw that net flinch. Yeah, I think that means a goal. That's right where the net is tightest, right underneath the crossbar in the middle. And that's
050where I thought it went. Well, I we got no uh cam once once once Dan Young comes in from, you know, being outside and relaxing in the sun, he'll uh he'll watch that later. Hopefully, he'll be able to look at the replay and then people at home will see it. Uh we are connected with Dan Young here. I see on Pete's computer. Well, I tell you, as a goalie, I like seeing goalies make saves. Okay. Yeah, you know that that made a slight rattle, but it was mostly the net that we saw. It got part of the post, but I think it got the inside part. I think it was I think it was in the net, but it's such a hard thing. As a card carrying ref myself, it's a brutal call. It's it's
051so difficult. Uh when I was coaching at Hollis, Brooklyn, you know, in the playoffs, that's why they make the hockey goals with the with the B shape at the crossbar. So, you got some depth up there cuz remember we used to make those nets as a kid and the same thing would happen. It'd be a huge argument. It went went in the top of the net. No, it didn't. you know, you would attend Rivs engineering school and let's go craft that and put a patent on it. Well, yeah, we used to like make nets and and if you didn't know how to make a um support like to have depth on the top, it would be it' be hit that tight netting up there. And so this is interesting. It's 39 seconds. Panto's in the
052box for a minute for the slash. And um so the rule is if you have possession and you're man up um and the clock winds down, it's you keep possession in the ensuing quarter. No face off, right? So they'll start off with a possession in they're doing well on faceoff. So it's not is there a release? You have half release if there's a goal. Yes. Yeah. All right. All right. 24 seconds left to go and we might go into halftime. Scoreless shot goal. Oh wow. That was in. No question about it. And that was a goal for Jackson Green of Exit. And the Blue Hawks take the lead. Four to three. Yeah. You know, I was about to say, you don't want to take yourself out of rhythm on a manup opportunity just to have
053possession when you're doing well on faceoffs anyway. So, hot dog. 19.3 seconds left. Exiter. They may even be surprised. This is a terrific effort. Well, let's see if BG can win a faceoff. Pressure on Paulo Vasquez here to win this. Exactly. Maroy dominated the faceoff circle this in this game. 19 seconds for one team or the other to try to get a shot on goal here before the end of the first half and a hardfought nearly even first half. Exit has taken the lead four to three. It was first goal for the Blue Hawks. Three unanswered by BG. Then three unanswered by exit to get us here at four to three in favor of the visitors. Great game of runs. They're they're trying to clear the scoreboard right now with the release of that penalty
054after that. So just at a certain point you just play ball and exit wins it. Wow. Mroy. Mroy up ahead. 12 seconds. Shot misses. Running time. So Haway wants his right. They they let him go topside and that was a good look at it. Now they restart it. 8 seconds to go. Exit trying to come out front and take a shot. Deflection goes behind the goal. Yeah. Like a girls lacrosse play. The cutter, right? We don't see that that as much in boys lacrosse, but in girls you do. The cutter and it looked like that was the play launches. One second to go. Well, we've seen this before. Fantastic half by Exiter. Really great half, great half of lacrosse and exit is winning it because they are playing the heck out of the defense. They
055are really playing well defensively. That's Rich Mcdana, Tom King. I'm John Collins. We'll be back with the exciting conclusion, the second half of exit versus BG Lacrosse here at Rivier after this halftime break. Heat. Heat. N. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause]
056[Music] Welcome back to Rivier University here in NSHA where at halftime exit visitors Bishop Girtton your home team in New Hampshire Division 1 boys lacrosse the next to the last season for BG. G the last regular season game for Exit and they are going all out. I'm talking about the Blue Hawks, John Collins along with Rich Mcdana and Tom King. The Blue Hawks have a 4-3 advantage as we begin the second half. You saw a moment uh there, Rich. Uh were you supposed to run onto the field when you were a lacrosse team? Yeah, the body language for BG coming out of halftime. you know, they're I think they're a little down on on their performance and play and uh you know, their coaches are having to urge them on running onto the field. That's
057rare. I bet their co coaches at halftime did a lot more than urging, right? Um yeah, well uh urge is a threeletter word, four-letter word, excuse me. The uh I'm sure Brian and and Chris Cameron were, you know, basically Well, they got a lot in the tank. Obviously, they got a lot of talent and you saw that Paulo Vasquez won that first uh faceoff, but then they promptly had an unforced error with that low ball and that drives coaches bonkers. Yeah, that was an unfortunate giveaway of what could have been an an equalizer goal to begin the third quarter. Instead, Exiter has a chance to go up by two. Good swim move right there to climb the pocket. The shot from distance. Good save. Nice save. And I got to say, I was watching Feliciano's
058warm up at halftime and he looked a lot sharper. Tyler Bland again, an unforced turnover. Bad turnover. Sam Gibney comes away with it and gives it back to Tyler Bland who just took that shot that Feliciano went down and stopped with two gifts here or two takeaways. Yeah, it was more giveaways than anything else. But as a longtime coach myself, John, I've said it before, that's what turns your hair gray. It's not age, right? Yeah. Big wind up right there by Gibney. Rich. Yes, sir. It's age. It's age. Tom, you know, you're you're on the roof basically right now instead of the booth, but uh we'll talk about that later. Y but you're probably right. The furthest away from John Collins, the better. That's that's rough. You know, it's fresh air. You know, there's not
059a lot of hot air, the whole bit. Oh, what a turn. Oh, nice save again there. Griffin Gennard let it go. He just whirled around and used the defender as a screen. Yeah, Feliciano was well and wise to it. Jackson Green, number 15 for the Blue Hawks. He's got a huge lefty wind up. They get him loose with people focusing on other parts of the uh the defense, focusing on other guys in the in the exit offense. You watch number 15. If they get him the ball, he's got it now. Yeah. Great. Going around the edge. Strong athlete. Is it just me or does Exit just have a big spring in their step? They're all They're just really really pumped up right now. It's easy to say cuz they're on office, but still they have
060And there it is. Tyler Bland scores. There it is. Third or fourth try since the second half began after a couple of turnovers, takeaways by Exit. They get a goal and they're up 53 from what I see right now. Now, lacrosse can change in a hurry. It can change in a hurry and it can change for a while, but that instate streak is in trouble here. This exit team Oh, came to play. What is it, 65 games or something like that, Tom? I I you I you you know, when you said 64, I thought it was more, but you're you're probably right around the right around it. It might even be 70. I I I knew it a few weeks ago before I got crazy on the college schedule. Vasquez with a win. A much
061needed draw win. He got one to begin the half, but look at the harassing ride. just gives it away. Kind of just throw it into space and exit comes away with it. Penalty push with possession, but nobody went to help uh BG on the clear right there. Right. They're out of sorts. They are completely out of sorts. Yeah, that's a that's not something that you're coached. Uh even if you're in trouble and getting double teamed, Rich, you don't just launch it into space, right? You just throw the ball if you're on the on the sidelines. I wouldn't have thrown it behind. I would have thrown it up into the offensive, you know, the four the front third of the field. Um where if it if you do have a turnover, you can get into a
062ride right there. Yeah. More chance to recover, but you know, you've got an acre of green space behind you. Very huge trouble. Yeah, that produced a turnover and a penalty in the scramble to get that loose ball. 30 second push that was uh taken by Vasquez himself. Exit with confidence here on this possession as they have a man advantage early third quarter trying to go up by three goals if they convert here. They're up five to three. And I've noticed as the game's gone on, exits getting more confident and uh I was about to compliment their passing. And look what happened. Look at that ground ball by Mloud. Kyler Mloud, great athlete, long stick, wins the race and a drop. puts it on the turf and fortunate to get it back. Michael Ponto, you're you're
063not quite even yet. The penalty was just released. Pull it out and just hit the reset switch. My old adage, better we have it than they have it, but they're lucky to have that ball again. Cam Hayden, Penn State bound number six, gets it back from Hudson Schmidt. Hayden going to work. Oh, he wanted that that shot down the middle. He's got a sniper goal in this game. I mean, he hasn't taken many shots. There's one that goes just over the bar by Owen King looking for the hattick. Yep. He tried to get a little fancy. That was the only play on the because of the tough defense. But look at that defense. What happened with King? He hit the turf. But unlike the first half, he went low to high. He changed planes. But
064still, it was it was a tougher shot than a lot of other teams will make it. Cam Hayden and Anditter has made it tough. There it is. Almost a no look pass there. You got to go through the ball. They're they're waiting on the ground ball. You got to take it through and just go to green somewhere. It look like brother to brother. The Warren brothers trying to team up there, but they were fortunate to get it back after the fumbled pass. And that was a forced pass right there. Boy, that pass in a crowd. You don't want to do that. Ronan Wilbur, who's had a terrific game so far. The goalender snatches the bouncing ball and Exit is back on offense and the Girtton coaches hands on their hips. Yeah, I tell you, you
065know, it's one of those things you get in that psyche. Uh, you know, nothing's coming the way it usually does, the way our offense usually flows and we get those those dynamic looks and you start forcing the ball. What they have to do is they've got to get good transition. Tom, you emphasize that earlier and uh get their spacing better. And when when you know, exit's packing it in, they're doing a good job. Just be patient. Go pick the lock. actually looking for a spot to pass or shoot here. This is Tyler Bland who's been Yeah. Try to force him out. Further out. Further out. Don't let him penetrate. Well, here comes uh Green. Green will shoot from anywhere. He's proven. Gives it to Alex Scott. Welcoming our exit viewers via Bluehawk Media, our Nashville
066ATV viewers as well. Shot and a save is handic. Yep. Goalie's best friend, right? Yep. All right. Good stop by the Cardinals as they go back on offense. This is an important possession. They've had no rhythm in this half and they've almost had no possession. You know, whether it's a 30-second precise possession and a great look or and unforced turnover. Holy cow. They are just completely out of sync. Yes, they are. pass they've probably complete 99 times out of 100 in practice goes right by Michael Panto from looking at the cage. Yeah. Wow. Before he looked it into a stick and that's that's problem. So out of sync is right and uh exit almost turns one over here. They do. BG with it downfield they come. Pass in the middle. shot goal. Exclamation point goal
067there. It was a three on none just about. Tyler Mloud puts it away. [Applause] So it is a five to four game now as Bishop Girtton makes it closer. [Applause] They thought it was going to be maybe another instate route for them when they were up three to one with possession way back in the first half. But then exit went on that run to go up five to three. That was you know you had to have a good run and then spacing for a change. We've been talking to number one. You know, their spacing on that when they had numbers was really important. Now they got a little zip. Look, they're going backwards. They're using the green space. They're keeping their spacing on the passing game. And that's where you start to develop rhythm, John.
068And that's the key to a comeback. So Gen trying to continue this momentum. They are up five to four looking to tie. Big possession here. You tie it up. You're feeling really good. Cam Hayden sticked away by Adam Scott. Alex Scott. Hayden to his right. Finds Owen Scott gets the return. Uh that's arguably a whole from the bench. Nothing to do with Yeah. Michael Panto got molested going through, but they get the ball back. The Cardinals do aggressive John. They are right now the last few times. Yeah, they they've played ferocious defense and offense since this game began. See they seem to be determined to break that instate win streak for the Cardinals. That BG's doing right now that that takes a defense shot onto 55. Great accuracy there from Michael P. So now you
069wonder how will Exit respond. Okay, that's the key. How will they respond? They've worked so hard to get a twogoal lead midway through the third quarter. Get BG nervous. But now BG with Mloud and Panto come right back to tie it. So now is how do the Blue Hawks respond? Paulo Vasquez is checked and the ball comes loose and he gets it back. [Applause] has been playing not his best game. We all feel that exeutor's been playing lights out. We were prepared awake and alive again. That's that's a key. And I think this possession right here says we'll say a lot about what's in front. Yeah, the Cardinals have to be feeling confident after getting back in sync in the last few minutes. Hayden fakes right, goes left. Panto behind the goal. It goes Warren
070in front. Shot goal. They are feeling it now. Brother to brother. The assist by Jeremy. The goal by Jackson Warren. The Warren brothers team up and BG has the lead back. Six to five here in the third quarter. [Applause] That's big. But you saw that, right? Crisp teamwork, crisp passing. Yeah, that's what we didn't see earlier. No. And also moving toward the net, right? Move toward the goal. I think that helps a lot. Exit with a faceoff win. And taking it back up top, trying to take a deep breath and reset is Patrick Hathaway as he hands it off to Tyler Bland. BL to Alex Scott. Well, and now now you're back, Rich McDonald. Yeah, I was distracted by hear you. I had this echo. We could hear you, but it was no microphone. We
071just hear your loud voice in the in the front. Sound like you fell in the Well, bland shot Feliciano. But again, how will the Blue Hawks respond here? They took an immediate shot. If that's a goal, it's different story. But now all of a sudden, Philiano has the team in his hands, right? And he makes that stop. Well, the key is BG has rediscovered its ethos in the last several possessions here. And I was saying they're moving without the ball. That was not happening. We we discussed that during the first half. It's like no no offball movement. And here we go again. Look at the cuts. Oh, but that's all right. That's Schmidt. Really great athlete, terrific football player in addition. His father went to Fairfield as I did. Yeah, he didn't play lacrosse. I
072did. Tom mentioned that there was no cutting going on. No hitting the cutter the whole first half. It was right near the end with a kind. They were backing away from the goal. Dumball passes, interception. Colin Foley. Foley. Now you got exit on its heels. They're they're anxious, right? They're not the confident exit. Oh, I'm going to hit you. I'm going to take the ball away from your team. They're the confident exit. Then the exit attic looks up and goes, "Uh-oh, not again." Well, and here the bench for BG is alive again. They're all calling out yellow, which means hold the ball for a second while we get our subs in. And that kind of communication was kind of MIA in our first half. Hayden goes on the far wing to Michael Panto. Back to
073Hayden. Finds Owen King. He's got that huge cannon. Missed up to the left as you saw, but that's all right. That's a good look if you're wear if you're wearing white. Our camera crew today, Dylan Smith and Michaela Savageo on Nasha ETV and Bluehawk Media. Michaela freshly back from her uh Spain. Sojourn telling me how wonderful it was. All right. And then right there we got a botch pass. Is that where Dylan Smith got his fancy garb today? Oh boy. Did he get a beret from France or he's got this long, you know, kind of robe type thing? You know, I mean he's like El Sid. I don't know what you call it, but it's not the robe. They're supposed to stay over in Europe. I bet he got it from over there. It's magnificent
074is what it is. Well, that was an unfortunate unforced error right there cuz it disrupts BG's new newly rediscovered rhythm. They could have used a twogoal advantage again, right? You always can because I I also thought when they went up 3-1, they relaxed. Tyler Bland in the middle and double team. That could be a bad slash. It was accidental, but unfortunately the player was uh number 10 who got hit Jard. Jinard was going down to get the ball and two players hit him in the side. He looks a little woozy. John, no. No. Uh no hit in lacrosse is incidental. Oh well. Yeah, that's true. He didn't want to put his head down there though that near the He didn't care. I think Gabe Sheni or um or Foley took it. I can't couldn't tell
075in the crowd right there. The only question is are they going to lock it in for a hard hit to the helmet. I believe it is. So, lock it in meaning lock serve. No release if they score after no release after a score. Okay. Like a major penalty in hockey. But very similar. We had 39 seconds left in um in the uh second period with a man up for exit. And um so it was Foley who took it. behind the net. Zachary Sprag has it for exiter. They feel the pressure to score on this possession with the man advantage. So whatever happens, you got to back up your shot. If you take a shot and if you don't take a shot and you have possession at the end of the period with a manup situation,
076no face off and you remain you retain possession. Under 10 seconds. My guess is they're going to run it out. Yep. So they're playing for possession here. And that's a that's that's a reasonable move. Yep. They're going to run it out and that's it for the half. So no face off and and Exit starts with the ball and they still have um uh so was a two-minute locked in penalty. So they have a buck 22. Yep. Yeah. In the advantage. So they'll be back on offense as we begin things in the fourth quarter here at Rivier. Good coaching by Matt Brewster. We'll take a break. You're watching Natcha ETV. [Music] Rob city. Rob [Music] [Applause] city. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. N. [Music] All the best. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Welcome
077back to Rivier University in NSHA. John Collins with Tom King and Rich Mcdana as we go to the fourth quarter in a onegoal game. Exit came in here determined to break Bishop Girtton's 6465 uh instate win streak and looked like for a while there that they might do it because well uh uh to uh to do a pun on purpose uh BG was very lax. Their whole their whole attitude was lax at halftime, but they found it. They found another gear in the third quarter and took the lead. John, you're really meshing on that comment. But they have a man up remaining and it's locked in, which means it's full serve. They can score five goals man up if that's what they can do. Bland scores. Tyler Bland and almost a late hit there by
078number three Avery Whitehead. Um but refs let that go. I don't know. Did Bland try to sell it? Because he went to the turf in celebration and uh that was a goal, a must-have goal for the Blue Hawks. Still 57 seconds left on the penalty. That's right. Yes. Not released on these locked in penalties. And frequently when it's deemed unnecessary and just too hard to the helmet and the neck level, they lock them in, especially at the high school level. The draw is won by the Blue Hawks. McInness does it again. He throws a ground ball. Was a nice decision there to find teammate Junior Pashel. So this is where games can be won or lost. You have these locked in penalties and you got a team that Oh, that's that's tough. But Exit are
079fighting. BG's got to come up with this. That's a great ground ball right there by Steinberg. You want to stall it, right? Yeah. You want to kill clock. Kill clock unless they don't look like they want to. Unless something's patently wide open. Yeah, you take a look. Um but then you just go chew clock just browsing as they bring it back up to the top. Just browsing, right? Noah Guerrera with it. And it's only 15 seconds left. But that that's a real waste of an opportunity by the Blue Hawks. Guerrera just all by himself here nearest to us with the ball. Yep. Just killing the rest of that penalty and then they'll get a switch. Right. Now this is what you wanted, right? They pulled it back out. They're now letting the clock go down
080and the penalty is up and now they can go to work. And if you're BG, you feel like you dodged a major howitzer shot right there. Yeah, you only gave up one goal, but now you want to get the goal the lead back. Get back in that rhythm you develop. And look at the passing is nice and crisp. Warren goes to Owen King. And they're not shooting too early in the sequence. It's good. You want to get this Blue Hawk defense moving. Break the shape of their uh their zone. And then see how they tuck back in. You want to overload, work the seams, and boy, you don't want to throw the ball away. No. In the corner it goes. Owen King gets it to Warren. Back to Michael Panto. All the way around the
081edges it goes. Cam Hayden has it. It's interesting they chose to spin the ball, you know, this deep into possession. They're they're doing everything they can to stay in rhythm, but you don't want to lays a hit on King, but he gets the pass away to Hayden and the clean save. High to high on a long shot. Can't do it. Right in his basket. You're right. He had he was aiming high. The goalie was looking high. And it was a long read if you're a goalie. And oh, you got to catch it. Don't snatch it. Ow. Ow. That hurts from behind. Look at the knee buckling. Out of bounds. Yeah. And he stepped out. He stepped out of bounds. That was Graham Knight. I've seen him play before. Quick, but he Warren took the worst
082of that one. What do we have? Call. They want a call. They saying he called timeout. Yeah. Yeah, they did. Oh my goodness. So exit called time there. Yes, exit. That would have been Brewster. So they But the referee was going to was pointing this way. He was pointing Gertton way. He was. So they're claiming that they in that little bit of time where exit got possession before they stepped out. They can claim what they want, but did the ref hear it? If the ref doesn't hear it, it does start a timeout. Well, here's the nearest side to our camera. He's the ref. It's the trail ref who's nearest the bench who was making the call and they couldn't get the relay in. But if if the the the far side uh nearest the bench
083ref had the call and look, I was sitting there going as a coach, you know, I'm going Brewster should call a timeout because they're about to lose possession. Yeah, my my my point is that exit only had that ball for a fraction of a second before he stepped out of bounds. Doesn't matter. So, he's trying to say that he called a timeout in that fraction of second. He called that timeout. I would have called it immediately. Wow. Recognizing that my guy's in trouble, I guess. So, yeah. And you know, every fiber in my coaching body was going time out. Time out because you can't call it if nobody has possession, right? No, you can call it with possession or dead ball. Wow. That was that's quick thinking then. It's great coaching and he's obviously done
084a good coaching job. Yeah. He's also from a from a far distance. You've got to be able to see these possessions. Yeah. Well, you know, we're half eagles, aren't we? You know. Oh my goodness. But uh great job by Brewster. He put a great game plan together. He motivated his fellas and he's tactically doing a masterful job. So we are 66 9/19 to play. Girtton's instate unbeaten streak at peril. It is absolutely exit came to play and uh I I admire it as a coach and a player myself. Jackson Green and Patrick Hathaway playing catch. Hathaway comes from behind the net and hands it off to the top of the key. Here is Sam Gibney. Gibney. No, Guerrero's got to do a good job right here. And he does. That's short stick D right there.
085He's back on it now. Gets back. Gibney going to his right. Goes behind the goal. Halfway. It's interesting. Exits flex into a 14. A little lazy pass there. And once again, Steinbrook, we've seen him in football, Tom. Big play by Andre, excellent athlete. Took it away from Tyler Bland. And now there you go. Good poise moving the ball up the field and Ryan Baker number five is a real good runner. BG with the next best chance to take the lead in a 66 game with just over eight minutes to go. The shots wide to the right near side by Owen King. Well, they were two on four right there. But I was going to say I mean that was shot against against with not many teammates back there with you. Well, you had Jeremy Warren
086parked way back there in case there was a miss. BG, which is why the Cardinals have possession right now. Finding themselves in one of the lowest scoring games of the season. They've got Yeah, they had it. Dangerous. The Blue Hawks that scoop it up. Alex Scott and play the miss. They're going to play the miss. That'll be Foley. Somebody's got to have onside possess on side responsibility there. Panto went up and got it. Spin move. Michael Panto. Good defense though by third or fourth circus catch of the day. Panto. Yep. Great hands. Great reach. Great uh great reach. Owen King in tight. Puts it on the turf. Forcing it. He says he got held, but that's good defense. And charging downfield comes Graham Knight. Knight with a lot of space. Fakes right, goes left, shoots
087over the goal, and Exit will retain possession. you say, you know, kind of a silly jump shot right there after you got bracketed and squeezed by two players, but he had backup behind the goal. So, it's pretty good recognition. If you see backup, if you see backup behind the goal, you know, if you miss, you're going to get possession. So, that's that's the key. That's what happened down the other end here with Girtton. Yep. And then after the whistle, you get your offensive crew out there. And it's a huge possession and it's a huge defensive sequence right now. Seven minutes to go. Patrick Hathaway has it. A fabulous game. We hope you're enjoying it on national D1. D1 game of the year. Yep. Sure is. Top 15 is Jackson Green. Look at the run out.
088He's got speed. Green goes to his left. He runs into two defenders. Early slide. Very early slide. And we're going to get a hold. Yep. That'll be on Red Fern. Is it Red Fern? Jordan O'Harn. Maybe 16. 16. Yeah, I thought it was Red Fern. Yeah, it was a hold. Little ticky tacky, but you know, ref's right on top of it. All right, huge opportunity here, John and Tom, for O'Harn taking a knee at the 30se second penalty. They have a man advantage. No, they score. It's a release, but they've got to work quick. Yeah, once you get into about 10 seconds, 12 seconds in, you got to start. Oh, Alex Scott with too much mustard on that pass. Bland really never had a chance. He goes out of bounds with a turnover. It'll never
089go in the books, but Avery Whitehead rotated up top with his long pole and was closing the gap and the defender took the uh wouldbe receiver took a look. Another turnover and responding with a couple of hits. BG is able to jar the ball loose. Just not not giving up. You don't give a give up on anything until you until they settle the ball. Noah Guerrero didn't give up and he was the one that lost it and then got it back with those hard hits on defense. Boy, a lot of long sloppy passes today. No kidding. Huh? Panto shoots. It's wide to the near side. Yeah, we I saw Not a good angle. No, I saw the angle he was taking. I was right behind him. No. And you could tell he just had no
090chance on that shot. Yeah, the bench is not happy there. The aim was to the left. Yeah, great too in midair by Ronan Wilbur. the net minder. Didn't have to move. Tight quarters. Didn't have to move. Alex Scott hands it off. And both of these teams have had all kinds of chances to take the lead and still 66. Well, they're they're desperate to get a lead. And so what happens is you force the ball where into traffic or you force a shot, you know, the near pipe with no angle as Tom just you lose your flow. You turn it over and Tom is 20 ft to our left outside. So you were on top of that pipe there. Oh, I saw it. I saw the the angle he had ever. He's got no chance with
091his shot. His aim was way off. All right. Whitehead is playing some serious D right now. Yeah, he's forcing the attacker all the way to field. That is awesome defense by number three. And guess who coached him Whitehead? Let me guess, Rich McDonald. There we go. I love that kid. He's going to Lake Forest to play D3. They were in the D3 uh quarterfinals this year. Well, that one goes in the highlight reel. A big turnover with under five minutes to go. Gets the ball back for his team and a chance for the Cardinals to retake the lead in a 66 contest. Classic game. Couple of great series for Avery Whitehead there. Disrupting that last possession and then changing the possession by himself on this one. Cam Hayden who just hasn't taken enough shots in
092this game. He's been doubled a lot. Ball goes up in the air. Warren was looking at the net before he looked into his stick. Oh, great recovery by Jackson Warren. And they bailed him out with a to0, I believe. Right. Y that's a great timeout by coach Cameron. Yes, it is. And Jackson Warren was Chris Cameron was Chris Brian Cameron was about 3 ft off the ground when he waving his arms and then so was Chris. Well, sometimes it doesn't go your way. The ball's bouncing weird. The luck isn't with you. Yeah. So, you've got to you've got to coach and and do something to help. And when somebody makes a good recovery like that and picks up a ground ball, bail them out and let's talk, you know. Sure. That's good job by Cameron.
093So, uh, both of these teams well coached and, uh, lots of strategy being talked as we look in on the exit huddle here on Nashe TV and Bluehawk Media. Yeah. So, almost like a prayer group down there. Yeah. There's the BG huddle. That's an old reference to The Longest Yard, the original one with Bert Reynolds. Dan Young's been busy on replays back in the studio. We thank him for his fine work. Our How do we know that for sure? It's AI. Wow. I guess Pete said so. He's he's running the show. You know, just wonder. Yeah, Dan. AI. Dan AI. I can't wait to watch the replay of that phantom goal we both saw go the top of the net and they just played on. I had one of those against Winnate once and the
094Winnick goalie came up to me at the after the quarter and I like the kid and he goes that was a goal coach Mack. I know it but you know what it's a it's the ref's call. It's the way and we can't yell at the guys in stripes. You just can't don't have enough refs in the games. All right, here we go. The possession will be Bishop. We got an outside look at Tom there for a second on Nice. All right, this is a huge possession as they come out of that timeout, guys. Michael Panto up top. Hudson Schmidt. Cam Hayden goes behind the net. Owen King returns it to Hayden. Back to Schmidt and over to Panto looking for that elusive opening. And Exit is disciplined yet again. But Hayden misses. Wow. That thing
095was 100 milesPH. It was. Had it been on target, it was unstoppable. We saw him score a goal like that in the first half. That one was off target, but they had backup. When those things hit your bare shin, Tom King. Oh, it heights. I had one hit hit it. Uh I imagine that would rattle your face, man. Yeah, I had one hit it about 3 years ago. Hayden Hayden found a slot and he gives Bishop Girtton the lead 7 to6 with 352 remaining. Went high and wide and you know what? Exit just froze because Hayden just never stopped running. Well, and exit froze it. They were shocked and Hayden just came right in. Had all the room in the world. I haven't seen a shot in a long time where a BG player had
096that much room to fire it. Well, one thing he did was he looked down below goal line to X and that froze the underneath defender and um there was no crash down. Big win again for Bishop Girtton's man on the draw. Paulo Vasquez and a huge possession off of a go-ahead goal. Seven to six. And you see why Hayden's headed to Penn State. Yeah. You know, you they played ferocious defense on him all game. He's doubled. He's got no space. And all of a sudden, they just let up. As Tom said, all of a sudden he got to they froze and they they forgot you have to go wire to wire with a player like that or he'll make you pay. Now BG can chew a lot of clock here. But again, the peril is
097you take yourself out of rhythm. We've said that over and now I see they're close on him now. Yeah, but they let him let him run. They let him run. Panto with another spectacular get. We have a call. Let's see. That one was Red Fern. Oh, was that Red Fern? Yeah, I didn't see a flag. So, it was it was a loose ball push. Oh, you're right. It was loose ball push. Right. So, BG will keep possession. Jack Redford, number 41. Just a freshman. BG still with it. Jackson Warren up top. It goes to Redford going to his right. That's something when you get this close a game, you got your freshman in there at the top. Yes. Yeah. Thinking that. Climbing the ladder is Panto again. Holy cow. Yeah, he's going to be on
098the basketball team with that. He's going to get stretched. And Hayden runs into the double team, puts it on the turf. It's going to be a tough save. Out of bounds turnover. But again, there was no reason to dodge into those two fellas right there. just no reason forcing it, right? Yeah, I know you're trying to pull a guy off of Panto right there. And though they and so they open the door for Exit to potentially tie this thing up and a great feed up ahead, a contested pass, but received by Sam Gibney. Gibney gets it near side Tyler Bland. Can't sit back. If they sit back, they're in trouble. They've got to be aggressive. Just as aggressive as Exit has been. Yes, they've been more aggressive on defense in this half and it's paid
099off. This is still anybody's game. If Exit scores here, then you got to go to the draw and no guarantees. Bland throws it in the middle. Shot save made is by Fisiano. He went down and got it. He had a clear read, but it's still a hard shot and very difficult. It was It knocked him down. It knocked him down. That's a good crossfield look. See, they're making the hard pass instead of the easy pass right now. Interesting to me that after the couple of great defensive series, uh, Whitehead's not on the field right now. We're down to 144 to play. Exit needs to score to tie this thing up. BG desperately wanting to kill off the rest of the of the match. Question is, how many timeouts does Exit have left in regulation? They've
100won. Okay, so he's going to have to save it. I spin move. Alex force them out. Got to force them out. And if you're on D, you better be talking and you got to have your head on a swivel here. Got to force them out. Gibney going to his right. Gets stickked away by Hudson Schmidt. Behind the net it goes. You don't want them to set up from behind the goal. Whenever they get it back high, how you want to force them back out. Look at him. Force them all the way to the circle if you can. Although this guy's got a good speed dodge, so watch out. Jackson Green charging behind the net in front. Loose ball with it. He's being forced wide. Exit is going for the last shot. Under a minute. 53
101seconds. Your last time out. They want to take it to overtime. Tom Ping with the precience right there. Let's go to Vegas with that uh for you. You got the uh the the uh the the turban in the third eye. 52 seconds to work with packed was packed for me with some of his clothes. Mighty Carac. Remember that act? Yes. Wow. This is a great setup. So, you got 52 seconds left and as you saw, Exiter exited that timeout with some rhythm and you know, four huddles going on here, right? Defense and offense for both teams. Yep. Luke S got the uh Cardinal defense. Exit offensive huddle. Rich, are they going to tell one certain player to take this shot? No. No, because they've been sharing the ball pretty well. Um that said, you know,
102you've got a couple of smoke shooters right there. Jackson Green, we've seen Bland's got a cannon and uh 15 32. Yeah. So, you watch those guys, but you know, sometimes you want to have your setup man and they'll, you know, all eyes are be will be on the fellas who've been scoring and that'll set up somebody else and like a Gibney, you know, Sam Gibney and he wears number 14. So, you just watch that to to um you know, contest that sort of thing and be aware of it. BG has got to communicate. Uh goalie has to communicate and they have to mind their spacing. You want to split the difference between the ball carrier and your own man and be prepared to help and slide. But here's the thing. If you're exit, do you
103want to shoot too early? Do you want to get a goal, tie it up, give time to to get one last shot? I don't think you do. I think you want to hold this until the very end. I say yes to both. I think you want to hold it till till you get the la the perfect shot at 10 seconds and then if it misses, you take your chances in overtime and see BG starts with a pretty decent press out. They're they're trying to shorten the field for themselves. All the way out to midfield, Alex Scott. That's right. This tied. You've got to get a shot. And he's got Schmidt, the great athlete on. You got to take your first available. Scott throws it away. And that was Hudson Schmidt. a dominant athlete right there
104forcing the bad pass. And I tell you what, I think Scott heard the footsteps and yeah, he felt like he was going to beat him to a spot. Didn't and then he panicked. That's a difficult low percentage shot across the field. Almost a no look job and it costs and I tell you that's the one where the guy you up pretty well. You want to going to see pressure like you've never seen it before, right? Yep. G's got to be quick with their passing. Remember, they got 20 seconds to get it out. It's a good time. Yep. 21.7 seconds left. Yeah. And the beauty is you get a fresh 20. A big shift in uh the probability that BG will survive this scare to their instate winning streak. You don't know that. So here's what's
105going to happen. Here's what's going to happen. Passes. You never know. Here's what's going to happen. If you know I would imagine at this point in the season, Coach Brewster has done this a few times. You go to a 10-man ride. You pull your goalie out nearest um the farthest uh exit blue hawk away from the ball. You pull your goalie out and and you play manto man all over the field. In Bishop Girtton's season, their lowest win total in any of their games has been um 14. Yeah, I'm looking down the thing. They have not scored less than 14 goals in a win this season. This would be dramatically lower. The closest they came to losing that streak was a year ago in overtime against Bedford. It was double overtime. Double over. I called
106that game with Nick and Nastis. It was nuts. I was down on the field. It was It was crazy. It was during school vacation week. That's right. And the crowd was nuts. Yeah, it was a really exciting night. It was It really was. It It was the best lacrosse game I'd seen until this one. And remember how physical that game was, Tom? Yes. Oh, I it was a there was there was comments and cheers on every play, every pass, every hit and you had 14 D1 commits in that game. So, they'll put the hand the ball in the hands of Ca Cam Hayden. 20 seconds 21 seconds left on the clock to decide this. He is surrounded by Blue Hawks as you can see. Trying to mug him in the alley and he's going to
107go. He's going to do the Bobby or keepaway. Hayden hits on the run. He's going to go all over the field. Gives it back to the net minder. 10 seconds. Dangerous. Dangerous behind the net. Feliciano being pursued. That's all right. They're going to He puts it on the turf for a second. It's out of bounds. Over 3.3. 3.3 seconds. Exit has rested away possession. He should have just moonalled it, right? Gilman downfield. 3 seconds right up in the air. Throw it down the field. It's easier said than done when you're being has it. They've got to shoot it. No dice. That is the match. Wow. Look at that. Tom, game of the year in D1. You agree? No doubt about it. Game of the year. Great effort both teams. Score. Thanks, Tom. Final score 7
108to6. It was closer than the score indicates. And a beautiful game of runs. That's possible. The exit, you know, locked and loaded when they came to play. Uh BG was kind of asleep at the wheel in the first half. They had that good run when they woke up and um look a little bit more like themselves in the third and fourth quarter. So we'll see how that translates. They got to do it again tomorrow at London. Yeah, they better crank up the engine uh pretty quick because uh just over 24 hours from now at Londary to close out the regular season with hopes to run the table as they always do going into the playoff season. Yeah. Four time defending champs. The big thing is everybody go to the NHIAA Monday morning or Monday midday
109sometime because it's all about the quality points when they do their math soup over the weekend. It's going to be insane for Rich Mcdana and Tom King. Dan Young back in the studio. Our camera crew of Dylan Smith and Michaela Savageo. Thanking our executive producer Pete Johnson as well. Thank you for watching on Nasha ETV and Bluehawk Media. I'm John Collins and saying good evening from Rivier University [Music] everybody. CL. [Music]