NHIAA Boys Varsity Lacrosse | Exeter at Bedford (D1) 04/16/25

001a number of seasons helping out with a number of club teams along the way and great experience that he brings to that sideline. Coach Godro and coach Mcdana are going to work with this squad on the majority of the the time here but but coach C should be be able to bring some experience to that offensive end. On the other side, Coach Brewster brings in this exit high school squad. A lot of experience over there. many juniors, many seniors on the roster. As you mentioned, Marshall Lazawitz, an attackman, usually dominant on that offensive end of the field. It'll be interesting how these two teams, especially early in the season, will match up. Sure, they're still working out some kinks in their offensive sets, trying to gel together with new players, new lines, new communication, new

002movement patterns throughout the field. It'll be a fun one to watch this evening. Yeah. And I think we're really what we know about Bedford is they've got a very strong midfield on both sides. Um so we'll see uh hear the names Brody Helton, Bett Matthews. We also have Ethan Khan uh between the pipes, a junior now that really split time the last couple years with Ian Fletcher who has since gone on to college. So uh but it's in in between those areas. The other areas where we got some question marks like to see how they come out and how strong they are as a team. A lot of fresh faces, especially on the defensive end for the Bulldogs. They had three seniors back there to start all year. What a luxury for coach uh Bordeaux

003and and now he has moved on to the next level. Congratulations again to him taking over that St. Ansel program. The defenders though, all new. We have Kobby Boyd, a senior. We have Cam Santos, a sophomore, and Teddy La Point, a freshman. It'll be interesting to see how they gel on that back end. Again, they should be anchored in the midfield with those two dominant midfielders with promising next steps. We'll take a break for the anthem and for a word from our underwriters and rejoin you for division 1 lacrosse action. BTV and WB&H thank our underwriters. Primary Bank, New Hampshire's Bank for Business. Primary Bankn.com. The Wix Insurance Group, serving New Hampshire and the Bedford community with auto, home, life, and business insurance since 1984. The Wix Insurancegroup.com. Interim Healthcare of Manchester, personalizing care to

004help meet your unique health needs. interimhealthcare.com. Nelson Real Estate of New Hampshire, your local brokerage boutique. Relationships built on trust. Mrs. Nelson's Neighborhood.com. Great New Hampshire Restaurants. Food tastes better with family. t-bones.com or copperd.com. Heat. Heat. [Music] And we are back ready for action here again. We welcome you in on channels 8 and 1072 here in Bedford, New Hampshire. We also do welcome in the audience with Bluehawk Media providing coverage for the Exit fans on Exit TV. Again, I'm Cory Monster Tiger joined by Jay Abadroth. We're ready here for the home opener. The Bedford Bulldogs boys lacrosse team ready to start with their home protection against these invading Blue Hawks from Exit. Traditional lineups have resumed after our brief pause a couple of years there for co officials today. Howard, Tim Bethky, Peter Burkhard, and

005Tyler Leadeds. We'll definitely give them a little bit of chirping along the way, too, as I uh have had a lot of playing experience with two of the three. So, we'll let them have it in, of course, a jovial way. Goalies meet at midfield. Two teams ready to shake hands and get things underway here. The Bulldogs will defend the goal down to the left hand side, facing off Dylan Richio back at his spotted X. He'll face off against Will Mroy. the senior midfielder for the Blue Hawks. Ready to go here. Fogos take their position. They get set. Some last instructions from Mr. Bethki at that faceoff X. Just about ready to go and we're underway. Scrapping along the way and the Blue Hawks come up with possession as it's called. Scooping that up along the

006way. Tyler Bland, but it's quickly back on the carpet. Richio pushes it ahead. Here's Evan Capello. He runs away from pressure and settles things down. Waits for the midfield substitutions and dishes off to Brody. Help coming hard. Firing low left. The liner is good. Bryce Cerso with the first goal on the season. [Music] And the Bulldogs go up early here. Nice power dodge right down the middle. Nobody came to him. Why not take a pull, huh? Yeah, absolutely. It's always good in those testy few minutes to see your own team come away with an unsettled situation. Dylan Richio did a really nice job keeping on that ball. Was able to get it move in the right direction and it was, you know, good awareness uh by the attack there to get it to the midfield.

007Pretty much an easy step down. Great shot by Derso. Following faceoff is scooped up here. Junior Pascal picks it up, gets it ahead. Here's Marshall Azawitz protecting Kobe Boyd harasses him. Tries to get a poke check, slap check here and there, but the exit of offense will settle things down. Open set from what it looks like. Lazawitz creeps in towards that crease. Taking it all the way behind is Jackson Green. Great check there on the defensive end. Help gets a stick check. Gets the ball on the ground. now looks to dodge out of pressure. Far side skip pass. Missed one in the midfield and it's turned over. Great ground ball there on the back end, Griffin Lechner, but he turns it over. Ball somehow doesn't come out of the pocket of a shifty midfielder, Alex

008Scott. And a flag does come down. I believe we're going to have either a hold or a trip. Jackson Luranganger brings it over for the Blue Hawks. Blue Hawks will settle things down as they do have that flag down situation. Swim move here by Green again. He gets it behind and throws it out of bounds, but the Bulldogs will go down. First extra man opportunity of the evening for the Blue Hawks. Yeah, that's going to be a big key to this game. We saw Bedford lose the ball in that clear. Really crisp passes. It's early in the season, so you expect a little bit of that. We saw exit lose their possession just now, but uh it's going to be key for the Bulldogs to be able to clear the ball and get into the

009offensive's hands. They struggled with that in the past this season. And so, uh let's see what the coaches can do to really make that a lower pressure situation and get the ball over midline. Bluehawks starting with an open set as you can see, a big circle going to stretch things out. likely going to see some action and one or two players crash that crease on some cuts after a pass or two, but see how they approach this. The Bulldogs keeping a fiveman rotation for now, but that likely will change with those cutters through the middle. Working around the outside, back up top. Bland near side. Jinard cutters through the middle. Had the play there. couldn't finish on the quick stick right on the doorstep. They had Griffin Jard right there and ready. Bulldogs will look

010to clear it out with their short-handed defense. It eventually finds the stick of Bryce Derso. He legs it ahead and Bulldogs will have a chance to settle things and they are even as they kill off that first opportunity for the Blue Hawks. Yeah, good defense. They uh got caught a little bit slow on the slide, but thankfully uh for our side, Exiter wasn't able to connect the pass and good clear by uh Ethan Khan specifically. Good to see them close that first one out. First man down is always hard. Help drives hard righty pings the far post and now a back cut here. Matthews catches, finishes low right lefty. Two zero Bedford. You can see here on the replay that ball bounces all the way out to that top left spot. Nice little back cut

011by Matthews. Gets open, gets his stick free, catches and finishes. Derso one and one now as he was able to feed Matthews on that cut right on the crease. The Bulldogs get a quick twogoal lead here with 856 left in the first quarter. back to the faceoff X. Richio try to keep it on the ground. Good hustle there by Richio. Eventually scooped up though by Logan Schwalli. Now Exit calmly, patiently out of their own end. Here's Alex Scott and he throws it away. Looking across the field for Patrick Hathaway. Sails it too high and the Bulldogs get an easy turnover there. Yeah, we're seeing Richio do a nice job tying up in the midfield on the faceoffs for not able to get those ground balls. Santos throws it away here right into the stick of

012Hathaway. Try to settle. draws the defender. Here's Will Frangelo now. Exit back into their set offense. Six on six as they trail early. Two-0 to the Bulldogs. Quick goals by Derso and Matthews have the Bulldogs up as the Blue Hawks look to try to break the ice here. Good check there. Nice little lift, but picking it right back up. Lazawitz gets control again. Good stick where there work there by Boyd. Jard back up top. They spin it around far side. Here's Green. Green gets to his left, tries to pull from 15 yds and sails it high and left. Yeah, Bedford's doing a really nice job stopping the ball point of attack and keeping Exit out on the perimeter, forcing him into long shots like that. Jard tries his share here on the midfielders. Matthews plays

013good man up or excuse me, heads up defense there. Lazawitz probes. They fire it behind. Here's Bland. Tries to get high side. Feeds the back end, but it's tipped and batted down by the Bulldogs. Great save there on the doorstep. Some garbage loose down in front. And on the stop was Khan. Bluehawks come away with again. Khan comes up with another save across his body. Outlet pass right on the money to Matthews. They have a break. He keeps it, holds it, feeds backside. Nice patience finish on the back end. Luke Pernell has the third goal of the season. Excuse me, third goal of the evening for the Bulldogs. Yeah, I absolutely love to see that fast break started with Ethan Khan. Huge save out to Matthews in full stride and He kind of kept it

014kept it a little bit and was able to uh find the open man and and get a score there. Coach Rooster takes a timeout for the Blue Hawks and he wants to talk it over after this three-goal run by the Bulldogs. I totally agree with that last point you made. Matthews running that break. You know he's going to draw that point man. You'd prefer that he let it go before that stick gets to his gloves. But either way, he finally found the man open on the backside. Luke Pernell right on the doorstep. catches and finishes. The Bulldogs are up three. Yeah, Luke Penel being a name that's had a really nice career here starting out his senior year. Been very steady for this team. So, picking up where he left off last year. He's joined

015on the attack line by his brother John Pernell, the sophomore, and Evan Capello, his fellow senior. One, two, three in the book. One, two, three on the field. Nice replays here. Good tap there. Will Franelo batting it down and Khan coming up with that save on the doorstep. You see the follow up right here in the outlet pass. We just missed it as it got cut off but through a dime Tom Brady back there feeding. He is wearing number 12 just to be you know koi there and hit number 13 in stride right at mid midfield. Matthews again ran the break eventually found Pernell on the back door. Yeah, and usually when you see a team like Exiter who's been getting a lot of those loose ball ground balls, you would see the score flipped.

016You'd see them up. But Bedford's really done a nice job keeping their composure even with losing some of those ground balls. Helton scrapping for the ground ball, scoops it up, loses his footing. Ball gets flipped around as Cam Santos is battling for that GB. No possession called. That is awarded to the Blue Hawks. Not quite sure why. Possibly a push. Loose ball there. So, the Blue Hawks will get things started. Here's Bland. Lazawitz now back left. Guarded by Boyd again. Comes high. Tries to feed the middle and misses his mark. Right into the stick of Matthews. We'll go in transition. Challenge two. Matthews put on his backside. Nice play by Green. I'm not sure I saw the foul there, but Mr. Leads. Oh, it was an offside. That's why. Yeah. So, flag was down. It

017was caught. I thought they were going to flag the hit. No flag on the hit. That was a clean hit by number 15, Jackson Green. Good job to get Matthews off balance and upend him causing the wayward pass. That will get a timeout. Looks like coach Godro might want to set up a little something special for first man up opportunity on the evening. 605 left in this first quarter. The Bulldogs ahead by three. A quick little shout out Boo Boo and Papa in Naples, Florida. Appreciate you tuning in. Hope you're enjoying the game. The help is here. Send their best wishes and we appreciate you and all the fans down in Florida tuning in as well as others throughout the country nearby, whoever else is watching the game as we bring you action here on

018BCTV. Yeah. Here we see I think on the screen we see that fast break again. And here's where Matthews got a little stuck up, but yeah, was able to spin, keep his composure, find Prenell down low. Pretty easy when you look at it. If we could see that replay one more time, you could see that Matthews actually draws all three defenders. Yes, he does. The point man comes. The guy to the right comes next. There we go. All the way back. Khan makes the save. Nice outlet pass. Matthews in stride. So, point man comes right here. Good job standing him up. Next guy comes, third guy comes. Two guys open on the backside. And Pernell again, nice catch and finish. That's the kind of thing that a player like Matthews will do, right? We we

019all know that he's a threat. Righty, lefty. Exert, I'm sure, is keying on him. He's going to draw a crowd. When he does, he's got that vision to find the open man for the open shot. Bulldogs look like they're going to come out in a 3-3. See what they can do to dissect this man down defense. John Pernell near side. will get things started. Bryce Derso helping out Matthews. Luke Pernell. Exiter coming out. A little pressure on the hands here. Yeah, it looks like exit has chosen to face guard Bennett Matthews, the big shooter. So, see what Bedford how they can react here and go on a five on four situation in essence. Well, yeah. So, as you're coaching these offensive players as a feedback side, his pass gets his shot gets blocked. scoops up

020the ground ball and finishes low. Nice second effort there by Derso, putting the Bulldogs ahead 40. Sorry, my my thought got cut off. As you get face guarded, you have one player that's dominant like Matthews. What do you plan to do? Are you you're going to pull him all the way to the to X? Are you going to pull him to midfield? Where does that player go? And then how do you attack five on four? Yeah, usually you'll see coaches pull them out and make it five on four, given more space for passes. I've actually also seen them dump them behind as an example too. Um, so that you can still run the uh run the plays through them, but you just got to get set some more picks. But in general, you like to

021space it out because it gets gives the shooters and the passers more room to go operate like Derso just did. Derso again, beautiful second effort. First shot got blocked. He was there ready to scoop things up and put forth that second effort. His second goal on the game. unassisted. We're at about five minutes left here in the first quarter. The Bulldogs ahead 4-0 trying his hand on a one-on-one halfway. He'll spin it. Green far side now. Lazwitz comes high left-handed, draws the shorty will look to guard him, force him down the side, and they spin it behind. Hesitation move. Quick slide comes. Falls down. They find one on the crease. Khan with another save on a dribbler into the middle. And they call a crease violation. They do call it blue ball. I'm not quite

022sure I understood that call. I heard say somebody say in the crease. Yeah. I'm not sure either. Maybe a push in the back in the scrum, but that's a little bit odd. Maybe right there. Yeah, you see him right there getting low, blocking that shot attempt that was low and wobbly. Sometimes it's those off speed ones that catch you just completely awkwardly swiping at it, but Khan stayed steady. Came up with another save. Bland tries to go one-on-one here. Draws the long stick defender. That's Teddy La Point throwing some bodies up top as Green runs through all of them. Beautiful pass backside to Khan with another save. Scramble down in front. You're looking for folks to put bodies on the floor and Khan finds it in his stick. Ethan Khan standing tall in those pipes

023early on. Nice outlet pass here. Cam Santos drive hard. Draws the defender. Good check from behind. A little trail check and consistent effort from the Blue Hawks. They get the turnover. Here's Jard. Couple steps over and Evan Capella will get called for the offside. He might as well just go over now. And Helton comes up with a nice little lift check. Rips it out and gets the dead ball called. Yeah, he got caught. do it right in front of the uh right in front of the ref. You can't get out of that. Here we see on the replay though uh 15 Jackson Green from exit really did all the hard work there. Two, three, four uh Bedford defenders discarded got the ball down low on the doorstep and Khan was equal to the task. Creative

024pass there too. It was almost like a box kind of flip there as he wasn't in a normal throwing motion. was able to kind of toss it right across the crease there to his teammate. Khan again standing tall making a helmet save. Like to see that. Exit spins it around. 231 as in two attackers all the way high, three across the middle and one behind. got to hear the shot here from top right actually side right doesn't hit the cage as Khan was on it exit backs it up from behind and we're even strength as the Bulldogs kill off another penalty lazitz gets back to his left drives hard comes around the edge Khan with another save Ethan Khan has been true to the task this evening coming up with some good ones along the

025way. The junior goalender keeping this a four-goal lead. Help. Nice catch up quick. Matthews flips it across. Passes a bit low under Capello. Good hustle there. Luke Pernell keeping it in bounds, but Blue Hawks are the ones there for the ground ball. Help standing him up as Lechner was trying to clear that out. They go all the way back to Ronan Wilbur. Long pass there. Not quite sure why the defenders weren't there. Good trail check there and the Bulldogs get it back on the ground. Up ahead, here's Matthews. They have a break. Four on three. Fakes the pass, draws the stick, gets it batted down. Trying to do a little too much there. Just make that smart pass. Great hustle there by Luke Pernell though. Gets another possession for the Bulldogs and he'll settle things

026down. Yeah, we've seen some back and forth action on both sides punctuated by some uh less than stellar passing, but um this will be a good opportunity for Bedford hopefully to slow it down just for a second, get a little bit of legs back under you and get some possession time. There goes that idea. Waver pass, but Derso is there. Picks up the scrappy ground ball. Yeah, we see again we see exit um face guarding Bennett Matthews and same type of thing before as we see Pernell take advantage of the one-on-one opportunity from behind score. Pernell just dips that left shoulder, gets under the check, gets his hands free and buries. Pernell's second on the game. Yeah. Going back to it, you asked about, you know, what do you do when you face guard? One

027of the things you do is why you take your defender out? basically take yourself out of the plays because on that play there, there was no one in the middle ready to slide to help. And so Pernell really had a one-on-one uh with the goalie after he beat his man. So good awareness early in the season from Bedford to be able to take Bennett Matthews out of the play uh to add more space for his teammates. 5-0 your score 111 left here in the first quarter. The officials a little confused on where the violation was, but they do award it to the Bulldogs. Richio passes off. Here's Derso. Derso the sophomore. Two and one so far this evening. Nice stat line in this first quarter for the sophomore. [Applause] Health drives hard, draws body, draws

028four defenders. Not surprising how the ball ends up on the carpet. Good help defense by the Blue Hawks. It's one of those times where you look at and you see it written all over the player's face like I I'm pretty sure he's going. Nice pass. Good finish. Alex Carrian gets on the board for Exiter running a great break there up top. Graham Knight saw the cutter backside just evades his defender finishes on the doorstep. Not much Ethan Khan can do there. Go by number 20. Yeah, I was laughing. You could kind of see a little bit of a foregone conclusion there with Helton when he wanted to get to the goal. He was going, but good on exit to collapse and get the ball away and really we see the clearing game can add so

029much potential for your offense cuz you get those um man up in essence uh fast breaks really get an opportunity to get a strong shot at goal. Love those odd mans. Defenders do not. Speaking of odd man, Helton puts his head down, runs through a check. Shot gets tipped, chased down behind John Pernell is there to back it up with 11 and 1/2 seconds to go. He'll drop it. Gives it off to Matthews. Clear one-on-one situation with 10 seconds left. Fakes. Comes high. Lefty could check. Ball gets loose and scooped up in the crease by Wilbur. He'll run it out with two, one, and zero. Well, that'll do it for this first quarter. The Bulldogs start out with a fivegoal run to start things answered by the lone goal the extra Blue Hawks got in

030that first quarter. Carrian at the end of the quarter. It is 5-1 Bulldogs after one. Yeah. And really what you'd expect from an early season game, two, you know, relatively talented teams, but a lot of lot of passing that's not quite as uh crisp. These teams will will figure that out as the season goes on. These are kids that are excited to be out here. uh and playing for the Bedford team under home lights. Um but we've also again seen the uh a couple wrinkles already thrown at Bedford. Exiter uh basically face guarding Bennett Matthews and then if we notice at the very end there Matthews was able to take the ball in uh Exit went to his zone. So early in the year to be able to throw those things out there, but it'll

031be interesting in the second uh quarter to see how this adjusts. Able to throw a lot of bodies at him too. again that zone uh throwing the Bulldogs a little bit for a loop. They're basically begging Matthews to try to go hard and dodge defenders with plenty of backup there. It didn't matter. Bulldogs ahead 5-1 after one. Wanted to make sure that we're thanking our underwriters. We have BCTV. Would like to thank them for supporting our live sports coverage. Primary Bank, the Wix Insurance Group, Interim Healthcare of Manchester, Nelson Real Estate of New Hampshire, and Great New Hampshire restaurants, T-Bones, or the Copper Door. Very appreciative of their support of our live sports broadcasts here in Bedford. You did. Also, if you're enjoying the game, we do have a few upcoming broadcasts. So, the baseball

032team will take on the Trinity Pioneers on Wednesday the 30th. So, tune in to that one. At 4:30 p.m., we'll have the boys lacrosse broadcast as they take on the Bishop Girtton Cardinals. That's Thursday, May 1st, 5:30 tilt. Girls lacrosse will take on the Conquered Crimson Tide on Monday, May 5th. And you can see all of this action here live on BCTV 8 and 1072 on your cable TV. 12 minutes back on the board. We're ready for second quarter action as the teams have swapped sides and we are ready to go. Richio scoops it, pushes forward and is able to get possession for the Bulldogs as Luke Pernell pulls it down, protects his stick. Fletcher NVU try to get some checks in there and they have an odd man on this. Nice job to try

033to exploit it. Derso gets the shot off a bit wide left, but nice job of Derso and Capello recognizing that oddman exit defense wasn't quite in the right positions after that ground ball and possession for the Bulldogs. [Applause] Nice job here by the Blue Hawks in transition. They have a five on three. They fire from up top and it goes wide left. Alex Scott. Not quite sure why both teams are just ignoring those basic fast break principles of drawing a man and dumping, but you've seen it about three or four times now. You know, you're not going to score 100 goals in the season by passing, Cory. You got to start. It's true. Yeah. My bad. My bad. I know that's kind of Neanderthal thinking, but that's right. Lazit guarded nicely there by Boyd. forces

034the pass. Now Green side steps, cranks lefty high and right. Can't get it to go. And he has a little something to say as Helton walks by. Santos guarding behind as Carrian fires it up top. Here's Bland. Tyler Bland from the top right. We're going to get an illegal screen there. Turnover on the Blue Hawks. Derso picks it up. He's ready to go. The swim move and it gets checked out of his stick there for the ground ball as Carrian back on the turf. Santos pulls it down and away. We might have a timeout. We do have a timeout. Santos was in trouble there. Coach Godro says, "Let's preserve this possession here with 1029 left in the second quarter. Let's give ourselves a chance to clear it out and get back in the offensive end."

035Yeah, as a coach you you start seeing your long poles dancing with the ball on the end line. It's always good opportunity when you have those timeouts to use them. Get a little bit of a discretion in here and set up your clear. Can't take them home with you. Might as well burn them. Coach Godro does. So 1029 left here in the first half. The Bulldogs ahead 5-1. Quick scoring recap. Five straight goals there in that first quarter. Luke Pernell has two. Bryce Derso has two and one. Bennett Matthews has two and one. See Hton with the other assist here that was registered. A couple of unassisted for the Blue Hawks. The lone goal came from Alex Carrian alone on the doorstep on a fast break. That was the one fast break that we did

036see run nicely as Graham Knight was barreling down the center of the field. Great cut backside by Carrian. Knight found him on the doorstep and he was able to finish. Yeah, we've seen Ethan Khan have a really solid first quarter and then some as well. Very solid between the pipes for Bedford. Good saves early, standing tall between the pipes. Couple of helmet saves. Couple of stick saves and maybe a chest pad save here and there. Doesn't matter. They didn't go in. Only one did. And it was that nice fast break oddman situation for the Blue Hawks. Goalies are a different breed when that's acceptable to have a helmet save, chest pad save, but you know, takes all kinds. Man, you don't even have to qualify that. Goalies are a different breed. Full stop. Right. Matthews

037gets out of pressure up ahead for Evan Capello. Nice defense there. Some takeaway checks, but Capello able to pick it up. Run away. Draws a double team of two poles. Balls back on the ground as Junior Pascal was relentless. And now scooping it up backside. John Pernell. He'll settle things down, go to the corner and draw Fletcher Navo. Now here's Luke Pernell. He settles back to John and now back up top. They get it to help. Runs through one check. Catches a stick high in the throat area. Draws the flag. Nice little side step here as crank high to low is excuse me low to high is too high but he does draw the penalty across check on the exit blue hawks trotting to the sideline I believe is Graham Knight can't quite tell in

038detail I think that's right yep so with 928 left in the first half the Bulldogs will go back on the extra man Again, we see Bennett Matthews. Here it is, going into the middle, into the crease, looking for someone. Oh, with a goal there. Excuse me. Helton from Derso. Just a crank for 15 yds. Low burner. Bounce shot beats Wilbur. Bulldogs extend it back to fivegoal lead. 6-1 after help gets his first goal on the evening. Yeah. And I really, you know, I focus on that uh that face guarding cuz as we see it here, uh Bennett goes down in the middle to really look for someone to come and give him a a good screen. But Helton just takes care of it from long range. So he says, "No need, Bennett. I got it

039from long range." No thanks. I'll just take care of it from here. So Helton with one and one, Nuro with two and two. Nine minutes left in the first half. Bulldogs ahead 6-1. Here's Griffin Jard. Top right for the Blue Hawks. They look to play a little twoman game with a pick and roll going for the takeaway check. And getting it on the ground was Matthews. And that finally gets all the way to the backside. The loose ball ends up in the back of the net. Scrappy play there. And Carrian has his second of the day. Yeah. And here we see Matthews. He was ready for someone on his team to pick up that ground ball and go to the races, but 90% of the job was done. Unfortunately, Exit was able to take advantage.

040And you call those garbage goals, but you know, hey, they all count the same in the book. It's like a golf shot. Yeah. Count as one, right? Yeah, it's true. If it's 300 yds or a 1 in putt, just ask Rory Mroy. That's right. or a sevenyard duck or a five foot pulled left putt to go to extra holes. Sorry. Uh sorry, Rory. Anyway, we're back here at lacrosse. I think he's pretty sure he's good. He's got his green jacket. He's got his career grand slam. I'm sure he's fine as we tick down to 8 minutes left in the first half. 6-2 is your score. Bryce Derso, a little swim move here. gets a little daylight, draws one, dumps it far side. Great save there. True to the task was Wilbur. Low to high was

041Pernell. And right to stick side high, but kudos to Pernell chasing down the ground ball. Still is on the ground. And finally picked up by Exit. We have a failure to advance here yet presume. Okay, they cheap it all the way down. Santos gets a stick on it for the Bulldogs defense. Scrapping along the way. Here's Teddy La Point scooping it up, getting it forward. Long stick midfielder. Helton rings one off the pipe. Chased down near side by Evan Capello. It's good to see here a hallmark that has carried over from last year from Bedford is the is the fierce ride. We saw Pernell there not giving up on the ball and really creating a tough out for Exiter. results in this uh possession for Bedford just due to the hard work and hustle. Goes

042a long way as Helton gets his hands free, pulls and misses far to the right side. Matthews now from behind pulls the short stick defender. Double comes quickly. Tries to dance around two. Gets the shot off. It's wide right. Yeah, and you see Bennett was able to get the ball after getting face guarded, but I think he kind of had his uh his eyes were big there. Thought he could take the short stick, but the double came early. He decided and felt that he could get around it. Not to be. And now we have Luke Pernell driving hard righty. Sticks it top left. Nice job getting one or two steps high and pulling it near corner. Just enough to slip it by Wilbur. Pernell with his third on the day. And yet again with the

043decision to lock off Matthews, the slide was not there. And so I really see a great opportunity for this attack to be able to come from behind really beat their man and they can kind of know that no one's coming after them from the crease to slide second. And so they got a free run to the goal. This is going to be a mental game for for Matthews, too, as as he draws that face guard. He's going to have to find a way to contribute on the offensive end without necessarily getting tunnel vision. Again, if he if he has that single coverage, great. Go hard. We know he can beat just about anybody in the state, if not everybody. But when that double comes early, somebody's open. Shot here high by Green. Backed up behind.

044Here is Marshall Lazawitz. Will bring it in from the end line again. Check there by Boyd. Picks up the pick. goes hard, gets high lefty shots more. Nice little sidearm underhand scoop shot. Lazawitz has his first goal on the evening on that dodge from behind. 73 is your score as the Bulldogs and the Blue Hawks are trading goals here in the second quarter. Yeah, and Lazawitz was able to get around the first pick, beat the slide, and the second slide was slow to come. So, had a really nice lefty. He is a natural lefty. Nice shot to put it away. And he's changing that angle too, right? He came from about hip level, drew it high. Khan was fooled. And Lazawitz finds that top corner. 619 left in the first half. 73. The Bulldogs by

045four. Ball still loose in the middle. Scooped up by La Point. Possession called. Coming away with it is Hathaway for the Blue Hawks. Tries to get low feeds in the middle. Can't make the connection. Ball checked out of the stick. Eventually Carrian had it but caught a good body check by the Bulldogs. Goes out of bounds in that far sideline. The Bulldogs will get possession. Helton trots to that far side to pick it up. deep in his own corner back right of Ethan Khan. Now he looks to be about goal line extended, but he'll dish it into the middle to Khan to run this break out and see if the Bulldogs can get a clean clear. Off ride here by the Blue Hawks. [Applause] Khan holds it too long. Gets checked. Lazawitz back in the

046middle. Shot saved. Khan bails himself out there as Carrian had a good shot. Lazawitz had a clean look, decided to give it back to Carrian. And the Bedford Bulldogs defense is able to reset, but just just held on to it far too long in that clear. Exactly. We see a pretty strong clear from Exit again. Kind of playing a different matchup zone, if you will, and fooled Bedford a little bit. caused him to work too slow and Khan held on to the ball too long. Shot there by Sam Gibney eaten up by Khan. Outlet pass all the way at the offensive end. John Pernell chases down the Lucy and they'll settle things [Applause] down. Helton single coverage. Back up top. Here's Matthews. He wants to go one-on-one. He draws that short stick coverage. Pulls righty.

047Brings it off the post. dives towards the loose ball on that far sideline and they'll call it in his favor as he's able to back up his own shot off the pipe. Looks like he wants to go again. Will Dodge away. Sticks it top left. Matthews gets another second goal on the game to go with one assist and the Bulldogs back to a fivegoal lead 8-3. And here we see Matthews taking advantage of a short stick. Really pretty simple. pull him up and then uh spin dodge and shot. Really nice upper left corner shot to Barry and make it eight goals to three. Great location on that shot, too. He came over the top, was able to pick that high left corner. That is thick side for Wilbur, but just too much heat on it

048[Applause] as Matthews rolled away to his strong right side. And now the Blue Hawks will settle things down, get their offensive midfielders on the field as they control the faceoff. Four minutes to go in this first half. The Bulldogs ahead 8-3. Here's Green. Lazwitz looks to duck inside. Pivots away from pressure. Draws the double down and away. tries to get that little sidearm scoop shot to go again, but pulls it way too high. Backed up behind by Carrian. Yeah, shifty little move there by Lazawitz. He found the crease, but unfortunately was off balance for him. Shot it high. Had that sidearm release go up and over. Here's Bland taking a one-on-one from behind top right feeding right side off the stick of Lazawitz. That ball may not go out. It finally does trickle out. Nice

049job by Kobby Boyd to shield off Carrian for just enough time for that ball to go out of bounds. Here's Khan. Wayward throw here. Sails it out of bounds near midfield. Just rattled around in that butterfly net a little too much and went wayward. So the Blue Hawks get an easy one there on the failed clear. Here's Lechner on the clear. Easy touch pass up top to Bland. They'll settle things down and pop it back high for Jackson Green. The big lefty looked to get a little little time and space. Get out of there. Gets all the way through. Drew the double. Ran through it anyway and puts it in the back of the net. First goal on the evening for Green. Yeah. You see, I think Bedford giving him a little bit too much

050uh credit for him not to be able to go left and he found a way to keep it in his left hand, get underneath. And really, he's a big body, so the slides and trying to slide with your slide with your stick isn't going to do it with a guy like that. You got to come shoulder-to-shoulder. Took it to the freshman there, Teddy Le Point. Rather large size difference there as Green, the senior, was taking it right at him. And again, the slide has to come there. The slide has to go to body. And they they clearly know that Green wants to get to his left. Bulldogs able to get faceoff control as Derso scooped up the ground ball. Capello runs away from pressure and now Matthews coming out of the box. Head of steam

051gets to his left, pulls the trigger. Save Wilbur. Juicy rebound. Good hit out front and the ball finds its way back to Wilbur. Excuse me, that's not Wilbur anymore. That's James Bernish who's in there in the cage. And we have to might I might have to go back there to see where Bernish came in as Bulldogs look to find one here. Matthews pulls lefty bouncer high gets another one to go. Matthews has his hat-tick with just over two minutes left to go in the first half. Yeah, it was really nice ride as we talked about. That's one of the things that should never stop or never slow down. And we saw uh the attack Ry Bernick and force him into a bad uh bad play, bad pass and just grab another possession and Matthews was

052able to put one in the back of the net. That's what really is the difference between a 94 game all those extra possessions. That's heart and hustle there. Your attackman, they lose it. They don't just, you know, start golfing dandelions out there. They hustle to get that ball back. And good coaching to to require that of your attackman. And great job for those guys to keep that hustle and energy going to again, like you said, get that second and third and fourth possession. Helton looks to go one-on-one. Nice one-on-one defense there by Logan Schwalli. Back up top, here's Derso directing traffic. goes to his right, draws a double and triple. Now it's all the way behind dodging from X John Pernell. Back up top. Here's help. Takes a shot. Sails it wide left. Back there

053for the backup was Luke Pernell. Keeps it down this end for offensive possession. Helton back up top. Top right of Bernitch. Little pick and roll action. Helton fires away from 15 yds out. You'd like to see him get a little closer than that. Matthews will scoop it up behind and draws Graham Knight. One-on-one short stick defender. Quickly draws the double. Looks for the cutter through. Can't get it. will help the shot goes off a defender in front. That's going to leave a mark. Some quick passes here and the Bulldogs offense efficient, sloppy, but efficient as that ball is not necessarily clean from stick to stick. They again are hustling everywhere and getting these loose ball opportunities for second, third, and fourth chances. Yeah, I think it's starting to even out where Exit was able to

054get those 50-50 balls early on. I think Bedford's really settled down a bit, kept their heads about him and really stealing some possessions as we have here. Helton scoops it offside righty low and finds the back of the net. Helton's second goal on the evening. You saw here draws the double. Forced him to his off side, but he's able to get a little low scoop shot past Bernich. And that'll be 104 as we approach halftime here. Two, excuse me, 24 seconds left after Hilton's second goal of the game. Two and one now for Hton. Loose ball finds its way to Junior Pascal. And now Exit will see if they can get one more on the board before halftime. Got a time out here. Believe so. It is a timeout by coach Brewster. Wants to get

055some offensive personnel on the field with 10 seconds to go here in the half. Time out. It sounded like they might call a moving pick or maybe a flag down up top running through that pick. But neither of those is the case. Thank goodness. as the whistle blows for the timeout. Coach Brewster will set some things up, try to bring it to within five goals here in these last 10 seconds. Yeah, 105 sounds a lot better than 104 going into halftime. Figure he could uh use these 10 seconds wisely. Like you said, you don't can't take him with you, so might as well call a play and see if you can get a quick shot off. 10.3 remaining on the clock again. The Bulldogs ahead 104. If you're enjoying tonight's broadcast, you can check out

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057shot off. It's high and away. And that'll do it for this first half. The Bulldogs come out strong. They rattle off five goals to start this game. back and forth affair throughout that second quarter, but they do end it with two goals, one by Matthews, one by Helton, and stretch their lead to six. The Bulldogs will take this 104 goal, excuse me, 10-4 lead into halftime. We will take a break and join you in about 10 minutes time for second half action here from Bedford High School. Division 1 lacrosse action. See you in a few. BCTV and WB&H thank our underwriters. Primary Bank, New Hampshire's Bank for Business. PrimaryBanknh.com. The Wix Insurance Group, serving New Hampshire and the Bedford community with auto, home, life, and business insurance since 1984. The Wix Insurancegroup.com. Interimhealthcare of Manchester.

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059Hampshire saves, we all win. [Music] I don't remember how it started. [Music] Our back and forth victory fumble. Repeat. It always came back. [Music] Thanks, Dad. Okay, here we go. Throw it. Yeah, you probably don't remember what you told me. That was perfect, but I heard every word. Nice. [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] I don't think that many kids in my son's school even do it. He makes fun of his friend who vapes. He would never try it. She's into She's on the honor roll. She's just not the type. No way. No way. No way. My kid would never vape. Get your head out of the cloud today. Nearly 8,000 kids will start vaping. Maybe even yours. Learn about the dangers at talkaboutving.org. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] It dishes off to Brody coming hard. Firing low left.

060Shannard cutters through the middle. Had the play there. Couldn't finish. Was always hard. Help drives hard righty pigs the far post. And now back cut here. Matthews. Heat [Music] up here. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] And we are back here, Bedford High School in Bedford, New Hampshire, where the Bedford Bulldogs boys lacrosse team is hosting the Blue Hawks from Exit, New Hampshire. They are not playing very kind host as they are winning at halftime. 10-4 is your score. They do hold a six-goal lead. Hat-ticks by Luke Pernell and Bennett Matthews in that first half. Two goals a piece for Bryce Derso and Brody Helton. That is your scoring on the Bulldog side. Two goals for Alex Carrian, one each for Jackson Green and Marshall Lazawitz

061rounds out the scoring for the Blue Hawks. Jay, any thoughts from that first half? A little bit sloppy early. The Bulldogs got out early after that five-goal run. What did you see in those first two quarters of play? Yeah, we've been talking about it. Despite the sloppiness you alluded to, um the clears that maybe went arry, we've really seen Bedford be able to take advantage when they needed to and generate some pretty decent offense. 10 goals in a half is a pretty solid half. I think it's all started with Ethan Khan in back. Uh defense has done a really nice job sliding. They're sliding early and switching. So, not creating a lot of one-on- situations for Khan. And when they have uh when the exit team has gotten through, Khan's stood up and really done

062well to block a bunch of shots down low. And then finally, I think that the midi play is something that we've seen Bedford excel at. So, we see Derso. I'm really uh you know great to see him come through as a what is he a sophomore and be able to contribute early. I think that's going to be a huge boost for this Bedford team uh to take the burden off of Hilton and Matthews. Absolutely. You get a sophomore contributing there on that first line. Nice compliment to Matthews and Helton. We knew those two guys were going to be stellar. We wondered who else was going to fill the gap and and Derso has done nicely as he has joined that first line. Number 11 coming out with two and two in that first half. Well

063done for Derso. Time has expired for halftime. The teams are lined up. The officials are getting ready for this faceoff as we get ready for second half action. 12 minutes back on the board and we're ready to go. Richio again will take on Will Mroy. Scramble for it. Mroy comes away with it and the Blue Hawks have the first possession of this second half. Rio tries a couple rack checks. Can't quite get those to go. The Blue Hawks will have possession to start things off here as Bland steps it into the box. And the Blue Hawks will start their settled offense. Six on six. They're in an open set right here. They spin it around the outside. Back up top for Bland. The point extends pressure. Bland behind. And now back up top. Here's [Applause]

064Haway. Haway. Little up and over. Tries to dodge. Lefty shot right into Khan's basket. Easy save. Stick side about hip height. Khan with an easy one near side for Santos. He'll dig it out. Santos. Little fake and go up ahead. Flag down as that was caught by Will Franelo and he was hit from behind. So the flags do come down. The Bulldogs able to skip scoop up the loose ball and they will have a delayed flag situation. Matthews looks to go. Draws one, two, three defenders. Shot goes wide left and the Bulldogs will have a man up. They'll call a push and we'll see what they do to take advantage of this extra man opportunity. 10:32 to go in the third quarter. No goals here in the second half, but Bulldogs hold that sixgoal lead.

065Yeah, it's nice to see the referees on the same page. We saw two flags in unison on that push. So glad that they can see what the rest of the world can see. And uh here it is. Bedford on the man up. Sometimes that's not the case though. The refs seeing what the rest of the world sees. Exit extending their defense here on a man down. Matthews dodges, gets his hands free and buries 114. Nice footwork there and stick work. Little hesitation, comes back high. Burries it top right. Matthews with his fourth on the evening. Yeah, it was a good play. He saw the uh defender actually coming at him was able to stutter set and go around the opposite way, clear his hands, and Bennett's a really strong shooter. Uh kind of both hands,

066righty and left. He was able to put that one past the goalie without much trouble. 114 is your score. I did not hear if they gave an assist on that. I think it came from Hilton perhaps. Yeah, let's give it to Helton. Yeah, might as well. Yeah, Hilton with an assist there. Pretty sure his second on the game as Exit wins the faceoff. Here's Mroy running away from pressure. He finds Lazawitz who will take it below. Goal line extended. Nice spin around the backside. Yeah, and if you're exit here, I think coach Brewster wants them to look for Lazawitz and Green have been the two major uh starters of your offense, being able to get dodge and then create that uh fire situation where Bedford has to slide. Here's Jard draws a double, dishes it

067off. It's back to Bland. All the way back to Jard. Lazawitz tries to get to his left hand. Keeps going. Nice over the head trail check there. Kobe Boyd gets it on the ground and Matthews comes out with it. Matthews up ahead. Here is John Pernell. And back up top. Wow. Stick up in the grill. Nothing strange. Helton fires wide left but backed up behind by Luke Pernell. Yeah, we don't always see the same things as the referee. That's okay. Things move fast here. Again, I'm pretty sure everybody saw a stick up in the grill and face and neck area of Hton, but no hanky on that one. No big deal. And just so everybody's aware, we are joking. These referees are doing a great job actually with this game, keeping it in check, keeping

068it moving. Um, so you know, you got to give give some gruff to your friends. Absolutely. Nice job there. Capello popping off the crease. Catches it from Helton. Berries. 124 is your score after that one. Capello's first one on the evening. Helton with another assist. That one definitely did come from Hton. Yes, there it is. It's good to see Capello get on the board. So, he's a converted midfielder from last year. was asked to take on the attackman role. Um, it'll be a learning curve. Definitely different working with your back to the goal versus facing it, but good to see him get a goal early. It's every midfielder's dream right there. Other than drawing the long stick every play, uh, I think they'll they'll gladly accept. Oh, you mean I don't have to run up

069and down 100 yards every play? No, that's good. Ball still on the dirt here. Finally out of bounds off the stick of Carrian. Good hustle on the backside. Dylan [Applause] Richio. Here's Khan up in the middle. Derso Santos can't pull that one down. Turn over Bedford. Yeah, again it's uh been a lot of unsettled situations off of these faceoffs. Bedford's able to come up with that one and then throw it away in the midfield on a relatively easy passing catch here. Something they got to clean up. And now Exiter will get it forward. Here's Green. Runs through two players already. Cranks lefty misses the cage. Backing it up behind is Carrian. Eight minutes left in the third quarter. 124. Bulldogs ahead by eight. Sam Gibney up top. He draws Helton as the defender. Helton a

070good two-way player. Rare to see that as much these days at your midfielder. And now the pass a bit high out of reach for Tyler Bland. The Bulldogs will pick it up and try the clear. 741 to go in the third quarter. Yeah, that's a tough one for the Exitter team. They had a really strong fast break and um you know the ninth grader uh was unfortunately a little careless with the ball and threw it away. But um tough to see if you're an exert fan see a really hard fought defensive battle get the ball and you throw it away. Uh as you speak the bed for Bulldogs get the ball and they throw it away. Yeah. Hey, repay the favor. You know, kind guests, gracious hosts here gives Exitter another opportunity. But it's something

071that, you know, it's important at this age. It's ball security. Keeping the ball in your team's stick is such a huge determining factor in winning at this level. Bulldogs trying to force another turnover here on this ride. They do. Ball's on the carpet. They do a good job to get it back in possession. As you're talking about ball security, ironically, it changed hands about three times describing that back and forth. They get possession, turn it over, get possession, turn it over, get possession, turn it over. If I sound like a broken record, it's cuz it's exactly what's happening. Good try there. And now again, get possession, turn it over. Outlet pass sails high. get possession, turn it over as Matthews tries a behind the back pass down to Pernell that goes out of bounds. Yeah,

072this is a this is a interesting display of uh lacrosse here. Both teams I just have to just think have to settle down, settle in to keeping the ball, forget this one-on-one stuff that they're doing here and just take care of the ball. Green was trying to take Hton on. Two big bodies colliding at midfield. Now Lazawitz gets space. Shot save Khan. Outlet pass quickly up and out. Here's Liam Shannon up ahead. Pass turned over. They can't make the connection with Pernell down low. So Exit will clear it out of their back end. Long pass near side. That's not going to connect. Get the ball. Turn it over. Coming near side to pick it up. There's Will Fangelo. Was doing that last night. [Music] He's got Derso ready to go right in the midfield. Makes

073the pass. Misses the pass. Get the ball. Turn it over into the offensive end is Griffin Lechner gets batted out of bounds by the Bulldogs. But the exit Blue Hawks will still keep possession. Here's Tyler Bland. Let's see if we can get some settled situations as both coaches must be losing their minds right now. Hard dodge down that right side. They fire it behind. Here's Carrian. work together. Carrian tries to get the step high. Shot near side, misses. Backing it up is Tyler Bland. Yeah, Carrian got a step there, was able to get his hands free. Uh, unfortunately missed it. But to your point, at least this is where you say to yourself if you're a coach, it's early in the season and we're both doing it, so it's not hurting us unduly. But it's

074been a little bit tough here. Lots to work on uh tomorrow as the teams hit the field. Probably a lot of wall ball to be honest with you. Green draws the double, settles things down as he keeps possession. Here's Sam Gibney. A lot of wall ball is right. Nice pass inside, finds Bland, and Bland has the score. [Applause] Yeah, here we go. We see the uh the freshman Gimme being able to take the defender one-on-one and the slide was too late to come into the middle. Nice dump and score by Exit. 32. Freshman to senior connection there as Bland finishes. Gimney is a big boy for a freshman. Was able to make a nice dodge. Kept his head up, made the pass, and turns out well for the Blue Hawks. 125 is your score with

075509 left in the third quarter. Bulldogs ahead by seven. I've never seen a memory. Mroy wins the face. Gets possession for the Blue Hawks. And Lazawitz will take it behind. Here's Jard. Waits for Green out of the box. Green will draw the LSM in La Point. We've talked about this size difference. He played a little bit. Green's going to try to get into the body of Le Point. Neutralize that long stick. Driving hard righty stopped. Khan with the save there. Jard got his hands free and now Derso hits the point man. Fires it around. Can't make the connection. That was a much better looking fast break. They didn't get the result they wanted, but it certainly looked a lot better and the pass goes out of bounds. Yeah, absolutely. That's one of those ones where

076you accept the result. Exiter did a nice job closing off, but Bedford moved the ball relatively quickly and, you know, got the best opportunity they could. Unfortunately, Pernell got knocked into the uh goal. It was an error pass, but like to see that ball movement, unselfishness from Bedford. Perhaps even the point or that low right could have taken that shot. A little time and space with the hands, but either way they don't. And now again that Bulldogs ride turns it over and they get another possession. Great hustle all evening on this ride. Pernell Pernell Capello just dogged in their pursuit when the exit Blue Hawks defense and goalkeeper have gotten possession. Ticking down to three and a half to go here in the third quarter. 125 is your score. Matthews has Bland behind. Looks to

077Iso, gets high, rips it, and finds the back of the net. Matthews has five now on the evening. Just a mismatch there. You can't guard him with a shorty. Gets just high enough above goal line extended. Gets a little bit of space. Finds another goal. 135. Yeah, it's a little bit perplexing to be honest with Exiter where they're going to the lengths to lock off Matthews and earlier in the game and then we see there a one-on-one with a short stick behind without an early slide. Uh really doesn't fit this the uh the mold here across the quarters and halves. The only edit I would say is without any slide. Yeah. Not even an early slide. I mean at that point just go heavy. Not even well before he makes his dodge. It doesn't matter.

078Right. Absolutely. And it's one of those things. It's awareness from the defense when you know certain people have the ball. You got to go early and you're going to let especially with all the sloppy passes we've seen. You're going to rather have a bad pass and hope for that than let your best player come in and score oneonone with a short stick. Bulldogs get that second possession here as they chase it down backside. Derso bouncer wide left. Good opportunity there with time and space. 256 to go here in the third quarter. Bulldogs ahead by eight. Derso quick pass in the middle off the post. Capello got that shot off quickly but just a bit right. Yeah, great ball movement. I think those cracks are there against this exit defense. If Bedford gets the ball out

079of their stick a bit quicker, I think they're going to find a lot of those really open opportunities for themselves. Bernich with a little help from his friend there. A little unusual play there as Derso a little quick worm burner to get it behind to Pernell, but whatever works and patting those ground ball stats. That might be it. Little Dennis Rodman action there trying to get offensive rebounds. Matthews to Derso. Nice little step around there. Draws four defenders and a flag. Come on. Pernell picks it up. He draws about five more. And we're going to get some rough stuff here. chasing all the way down. I like to see it. Some rough stuff. We're getting hats and gloves and all kinds of flags thrown. We're getting a little chippy here. What I do like is

080that Pernell stuck up for his brother as he was getting roughed up. But we're going to have all kinds of penalties with 217 to go here in the third quarter. A few ruffians out there. You can see why tempers are flaring, but you know, double, triple, and quadruple teaming there. Ended up with several flags on the field. All kinds of laundry out there. I think Bethy was ready to take off his shirt and throw that on the ground, too. Few socks flowing. Yeah, I mean, I got my shoe. I'm throwing that. It's the seventh flag. So, we'll see how they sort things out there. Again, you want to play within the rules, but if your teammates are getting roughed up, I I appreciate them getting in there and sticking up for each other. Yeah. And

081good hustle by uh by young Prell there. Was able to come up with that ground ball and a lot of blue jerseys and and kept his head about him. Was pinballing around a bit. Uh but his brother said, "That's enough." Older brother Luke came in and said, "No, thank you." Can we see the replay on that? I want to see how many how many flags we get. Yeah, there's a hat on the ground. Yeah. I mean, that's Beth's got his hat off. I mean, what is he doing? I mean, he's got gloves on. He's got shoes. He's got He's going to throw a glove. Yeah. I mean, come on, Andrew. Give Yeah. Here we go. Here we go. Yeah. See, I I think you're right. I think you know, Matthews draws a crowd. Duro first

082here, right? 1 2 3 four. They all come in high. There's the first flag. Now fighting for that is John Pernell. He gets one, two, three, four up high. We get another flag. We got other Pernell coming in from backside. There goes another flag. And we got some rough stuff after. There goes the hat. Oh my goodness. This is like the uh the pizza throw at Fenway Park. I mean, come on. We got all kinds of stuff going on here. Yeah. 217 to go in the third quarter. We're We're going to take 3 hours to get this sorted out just to announce the uh penalty. Who knows what the situation's going to be here. The anniversary of the pizza. No way. Really? I'm just informed right now. Bill Jennings tells me today is the anniversary

083of the infamous pizza throw at Fenway Park. If you have not seen it, please Google it and YouTube that right now. It is phenomenal. The pizza throw over there. Remog was going crazy. It was hilarious. The pizza. Here comes the pizza. He says pizza. Gosh, it's a hilarious segment from Fenway. Please, please, please look it up. Anyway, we're still sorting it out here. An eightgoal lead for the Bulldogs. Just over two minutes left in this quarter. I think the last foul was going to be on Luke Pernell coming in late sticking up for his brother. So that's probably why the Blue Hawks are going to start with the ball. Yeah, exactly. Just like in hockey, a major uh penalty cuz the original foul was on exit that first flag. So that would have been a

084Bedford uh possession, but I think we're going to find some other type of game misconduct here. We see two exit players kneeling in the box and now a second Bedford player kneeling in the box. Sit down there. Yeah, that's absolutely right. They're going to need a bigger boat. I mean box, you know. Uh, a lot of fouls here. Thank you, Steve. I'll give you credit there. And we're underway. We got a five on four it looks like with Exit, excuse me, a four on four. Yeah, there we go. Four on four. So, we're even up. Lazwitz gets to his left. Can't pull the trigger now to Bland top right. A lot of goofy stuff there, but we're back in play here. Good check there at the end of that as Bland's pass goes a little

085wide. Lazawitz going to drive righty through the check. shot high and right. He scores on the goal, but the one back left of the field. So, it does not count. 141 to go in the third quarter. Blue Hawks bring it in from back left. They bring it high. Here's Carrian. Gets through one defender, draws the double and it trickles in. Khan made the stop, but somehow it snuck underneath and the Blue Hawks get one to go. That was Carrian on the goal and draws the Blue Hawks back to within seven. Yeah, really nice individual effort by Carrian there. Really had patience. Let uh I think it was Santos overplay him on both sides and was able to sneak underneath. Uh not the strongest shot. Khan was tracking it, but it found its way through I

086think the five hole there. So, nice work by Carrian to bring them up to uh 136. We're going to get a timeout here before the next faceoff. 128 to go in the third quarter. 13-6. As we said, Bedford leads here. by seven. Just a uh reminder on some upcoming broadcasts in the next several days here. Baseball will take on the Trinity Pioneers Wednesday, April 30th. First pitch is at 4:30. We will bring you that on BCTV as well as a few other broadcast. Boys lacrosse will be back in action a few times, but the next broadcast we will bring you is against Bishop Girtton. The Cardinals will come to town on Thursday, May 1st at 5:30. They will get started and then girls lacrosse will have that game for you on May 5th when the

087Conquered Crimson Tide come to town. The draw will be at 5:30. Notice draw, not faceoff yet. Yep. Yep. Yep. You have to respect the girls game. I got to say, if you watched one of those girls games recently at the college level, they fantastic. The speed at which they play, they could these boys here could learn a lot from uh, you know, go watch Charlotte North or someone like that spin the ball around. It's pretty amazing. And Charlotte North at the professional level, too, is just amazing to watch. We're going to get like a Braveheart style here as the two two uh faceoff guys will get after it and coming away with it. The point does a great job. Lost the draw initially, but chase down the GB. Got a good check in and now

088Hilton will settle. We're still four on four. Actually, we get five on five and six on four. Excuse me. Now we have uh the two penalties on the Bulldogs are released and they they have a lot of people out there. Matthews to Pernell and just too many people to guard for the Blue Hawks there. Yeah, you don't see that often. We started four on four with a faceoff, but all of a sudden Bedford drops two from the box right away. Six on four, which is a bit odd with all those flags going. I would be shocked to see that type of uh um I don't know, two going on for Bedford and two standing in the box for exiter seems a little bit mismatched, but that's okay. Bedford got was able to score. Take advantage.

08914-6 and we're back on the faceoff. Loose ball push and exer will get looks like we are finally even strength after the brew. Haha. Two minutes left. Let's go. Green runs through a check. Another down the side. Keeps the ball. Distribute from behind or will he? about the lefty lazwitz. I have to say Kobe Boyd has done a nice job neutralizing the lefty last shot save here. Khan comes away with another one. His outlet pass blocked in front. Nice job by Hathaway to get that stick in there. He gets a cheapy out front. You always look at those plays and and the goalies are are usually good enough to avoid that stick in the air out front. A little fake, a little little this way, that way, but Khan there just throws it right into

090the stick of Haway. The junior attackman comes up with an easy goal. 14-7 with 18 seconds to go in the third quarter. Santos gets possession, throws it away, but now Pernell chases it down. His pass to help. Get possession, throw it away. Get possession, throw it away. Right. Here it is. Yeah. Long pass down to the offensive end. The Bulldogs keep it on the the turf and they'll end the third quarter. 14-7. Bulldogs lead by a touchdown. Yeah. So, we saw some good things uh that quarter. Some some spice, some uh some flags, all sorts of things flying. Uh some good goals here. Uh but again, you know, balls all over the place. It's exciting stuff to see in spring in New Hampshire. Couple of flags, couple of hats, couple tempers flaring. All good to

091see. And with that, we also want to make sure that we're saying thank you to our underwriters. We at BCTV and WB&NH would like to thank them for supporting our live sports coverage. Primary Bank, the Wix Insurance Group, Interim Healthcare of Manchester, Nelson Real Estate of New Hampshire, and Great New Hampshire Restaurants, T-Bones, and the Copper Door. Very much appreciate their underwriting of our live sports action. Back to the uh the official comment that I made before. Again, we we have a fun time getting on two out of three of these guys. We know them pretty well. Uh they do a great job in general. If you're interested in becoming a high school sports official, it's an easy call. Yeah. Here we go. I appreciate. Look at that. Here we go. And if you don't

092have the audio, it's definitely worth looking up. Here it comes. Here comes the pizza off his shoulder. Phenomenal. Oh my gosh. This was a highlight of New England sports history here. They're trying to figure out what happened and he gets all salty because a guy threw a piece of pizza at him. Oh my gosh. Legendary. Anyway, if you're interested in becoming a high school sports official, check out nhiaa.org. Plenty of information there about any sport that you're interested in. Thank you, Andrew Fen, for bringing that replay up again. Phenomenal moment in Red Sox history. 12 minutes back on the board. Although 10 seconds have ticked off already. Teams have swapped ends. We're starting here in the fourth quarter with the Bulldogs leading 14-7. The Blue Hawks have some work to do to solve Ethan Khan

093and this Bedford defense. Green takes it behind in his right hand. We know he's a lefty. Matthews is going to shade him to go right. The double comes. They feed the middle and Derso bats it away and comes out a hot. Now he's got a fast break. A fouron three down the other end. Looks finds the open man. Pernell it is. Bounce shot save. Well done James Bernitch coming up with him with a nice save on that low bouncer. The junior goalkeeper and chasing it up out of bounds near side. Great job by Griffin Lechner. Gets possession for the Blue Hawks. Yeah, nice job for Derso there. Was able to get the ball on defense, sprints away, and made the right call getting it down to his right to little little Pernell, excuse me, John,

094younger Pernell, uh, and was able to get the right shot off. Unfortunately, um, Exit was able to beat them to the end line and get the uh, get the possession back. Green draws the double. They spin it, finds Jard. Jinard middle righty shot wide right. Carrian from X. Good checks there by Santos. Ties him up. He gets rid of it. Jinard now will drive righty out to that right wing. Now up top. Here's Green again. Little hesitation. Gets to his right. Good trail check there. We see Hton. Helton helping up a long pole with the pole. Apparently Hton is more comfortable with the long stick in his hand, but coach Godro wants him getting runs a shorty. Matthew shot high as Stone Bernage comes up with a nice safe. Here's Scott trying to clear it

095out for the Blue Hawks. Little swim move, splits the double [Applause] through midfield. Here's Jard. Sorry, go ahead, Jay. And as much as that may seem a little bit odd, I think Brody has used the long pole in summer for a long time. So that's something that he's been uh doing for a while. It's probably fun for him a little bit being an offensive midfielder to get the long pole and smack away some. Absolutely is. Nice checks there by Franelo. And away and running is Kobe Boyd. He's going to run the break. Take the shot. Save. Nice job by Bernitch getting low to his right. And again with the hustle. Bulldogs getting after it. Pernell finds one in the middle. Here's Derso. Save Bernich. Bernitch has been doing a nice job in there for the

096Blue Hawks. Coming in for relief as Ro Ronan Wilbur let up a few early and Bern came in and tried to settle things on that back side there. Yeah, it only took us what about three a little over three quarters to see some real lacrosse, but that was a great flurry from both teams to be able to, you know, run, pass, catch, shoot, save, uh, and run again. Finally seeing the skills that both of these teams are familiar with exhibiting. Bland near side, green lefty. Derso will match up. Try to force him right. Can't do it. He gets to his left. Not sure if that was a shot or a pass. They're going to call it a pass. It does go out of bounds and the Bulldogs will get possession. 835 to go in this

097game. The Bulldogs ahead 14-7 up by a touchdown. Santos draws contact. Khan back to Santos up ahead. Can't connect with Boyd. I get possession, turn it over. Get possession, turn it over. Again, something that we're expecting to see here early in the season, but it's a bit much. And I'm thinking both coaches are probably about ready to have, you know, 30 to 60 minute long wall ball sessions to make sure they're tightening up possession. Helton up top now. He'll draw Cullen Scarret. Help back with a shorty lefty pull. Wide left backed up behind Pernell. He'll draw Fletcher Neva drives hard righty gets enough space. Pass across. Nice finish. Beautiful look off lefty finish. I believe that was Capello. Yeah. Maybe we'll see this replay here. We see Luke to his brother. That was Capello. Yeah,

098really backside finish. Absolutely go by number two. And you see that that hard drive with his right. Luke Pernell draw this drew the slide early. Just left Capello open on that back side. Beautiful execution there for the Bedford attack. Yeah, we've really seen Richio and Maroy go at it all game long. A lot of ground balls, a lot of contested balls. It's been pretty even, I think, on ground balls. Perhaps Maroy has a bit of an edge, but it's been a good battle there at the faceoff X. Scrappy like to see it. And that's exactly what you get out of your faceoff, guys. Trying to get possession. [Applause] And the Blue Hawks back on the offensive end here. Lazawitz gets low, gets back to his left. Shot is wide left. Carrian will keep possession for

099Exit. Far side. Here's Haway. Looks to go one-on-one. Franelo save Khan. outlet pass. They find Helton right in the middle. He's off and running. Showing a little speed through the midfield and now he'll settle. Six and a half to go in this game. The Bulldogs ahead 15-7. Yeah, and that's example Cory. We talk about the sloppiness of the clears, the long passes. That's a great opportunity with the strong midies that Bedford has to be able to drop them low. Get caught an easy pass right in the middle. Let them use their athleticism to clear the ball. Derso gets through one and two. Looks to feed the crease right into traffic. Ball on the turf. Nice job there. Helton finding the open man on the backside. Derso has a Hattie. Another assist for Helton. That's his

100fourth on the evening. 16-7 is your score. Yeah, really nice unsettled situation. Helton was able to grab that ground ball. We see him here. Head up and Derso sitting right there was able to put it down. Great job by Derso find a little soft spot there in the defense. Unsettled situations. People have their heads down looking for the Lucy and good job by him to settle into an open spot right there in good shooting position. 16-7 Bulldogs by nine. Richio. Great job on the faceoff here fires it behind. That's picked off nicely by the defenders. Griffin Lechner steps in there. Excuse me. That's Jackson Lurang or Langanger. Not quite sure on that one. Either way, sorry for the pronunciation there. Here's Griffin Lechner. Pole is dangling. I think we're going to get a timeout by

101Exit. We are indeed. Five and a half to go here in the game. 167 is your score. Bulldogs ahead by nine. Quick scoring summary for you. Bennett Matthews with five and two leading the way for the Bulldogs. Seven points on the evening. Helton has two and four. Six points for him. Luke Pernell, four goals, one assist. Three and two for Bryce Derso. One goal a piece for Pernell and Capello. All members of that starting attack scoring this evening for exit. Seven goals this evening. Haway has two. Carrian with three. One each for Green and Lazawitz. Bulldogs defense got to give it to them. They've shut down two of the higher scorers for the Exit Blue Hawks. And again, a lot of credit all the way back, all the way in the back line there. Ethan

102Khan, the junior goalie, has done a phenomenal job of anchoring the Bedford Bulldog defense all night. Both coaches have talked things over. Coach Brewster designing a set play here for the six on six settled offense. They'll start up near side at the 40 yd line. Green will come near side. Jackson Green, the senior again. One goal on the evening for Green. See the replay here of Elton's last assist to Derso. Nice conversion there on the back side. Green goes righty, curls away. Now he's going to want his left. They get it high to Lazawitz. Here's Bland. Look for some offball action near side. Here's Jinard. Jard picks apart the defense here and now goes back to Green. Lazawitz behind. Here's Carrian far side again. Here's Bland. He'll take a righty dodge cross. Little sweep. Bazawitz

103gets free, catches, finishes on the high crease. Just a step of space and he's able to take advantage of it. 168 is your score. Yeah, I think uh you know, credit to both teams and credit to exit there. It was the first time I saw them really run a play and create the spacing they needed to get that type of cut by Lazawitz. Um, you know, being able to get the hands free. He's a strong player, lefty finisher. When you're shooting from seven, eight yards, that's a pretty hard one to stop for Khan. I think that was Bland on the assist as he started that righty sweep. And now the Blue Hawks come away with possession on the following face. [Applause] Pascal back to Scott. He runs through a few checks. Steps it in and

104they'll start their offense. Four and a half to go. 168. It's a lot to overcome. I wouldn't say it's completely out of reach, but the Blue Hawks have a lot of work to do. And given how this defense has been playing, might be completely out of reach. Here's Sam Gibney, the freshman. Far side now for Hathaway. draws a double. They recover. Gibney now near side. Lazwitz looks to get some space. Righty back to his left up top for Bland. Bland. He'll go hard. Righty. Lazawitz again. guarded by Kobby Boyd. Gets the pick. Trail check. Can't get it. Now Khan gets the missed pass. It goes off the stick of the exit attackman and dribbles right to Khan. Now Matthews head of steam. He's got four on three. Nobody goes to him. Nice cut backside. Can't

105miss it. Excuse me. Can't make the pass. Connection with Pernell. Nice little cut by Pernell. Put it right on his stick and it just banged off Pernell's stick as they missed the connection. Yeah, definitely the right look for Matthews and I say look in air quotes is actually a no look pass and maybe it caught Pernell by surprise. Uh unfortunate cuz he was right there in scoring position. Jackson Green, [Applause] his bouncer goes too high. Backed up behind. 307 to go in this game. The Bulldogs ahead by eight. Moving pick is called on Green. They'll turn it over. Green's not quite sure what he did wrong there, but clearly the official felt he was still moving. Helton gets ahead of Steam. Tail back looking to take it to the house. Nobody goes to him. Helton

106will shoot. Eating up. James Bernitch goes high to make that save. picked off in the midfield. Matthews. Bulldogs come away with it somehow. I believe that was Pernell. His shot goes high and the only backup Gupta. Oh, okay. Gupta's in there. Yeah. Making an appearance. Good to see. Senior attacker gets some time. Here's Gibney for the Blue Hawks. Wazowitz fakes. pulls it down, gets doubled, still has possession as the defense recovers. Gibney dishes off. Here's Jard. Two minutes left in the game. Green will spin it behind. Carrian rolls away from pressure. Nice check. Loose ball to Helton. Fires it near side. Here's Kobe Boyd. He wasn't quite sure he was getting that ball. Little hot potato there. Like, wait a minute. Oh, you take I don't want it. You take it. Coach Gondro takes a

107timeout. He wants to keep that ball in Bedford's chance. 140 to go in the game. 168 is your score. The Bulldogs by eight. Jay, as we approach the last few moments of this game, thoughts as we get ready to wrap things up. It looks like the Bulldogs will take home this victory, go to two and 0 on the season as the exit Blue Hawks will move to one and one. Yeah, thoughts uh many um it's been great being back in the box with you. So, uh here it is in spring and yeah, I think as we look back these uh there's a lot of opportunity for both teams. Let's focus on Bedford really uh lot to work on here, but I think we see as we said 16 goals is a lot of offense to

108generate, especially with all the the bad passes and the the hastiness. They've really been able to put the ball in the back of the net. So, that's got to be a really strong positive year for uh for coach and for an extra team. I think they're trying to find, you know, very strong over the last couple years trying to find some of that offensive firepower that Bedford's been able to show. I think the last thing, too, is um there's a lot of things here fundamentally that can be worked on uh for both teams. And it's a long season, but you start talking about going to see some out ofstate foes for Bedford uh and and Bishop Girtton in what, two weeks or so. It's a long way to go uh to up that level. uh

109so that we can see the same type of score and a performance against a team with quality like Bishop Girtton. Next three for the Bulldogs exit tonight obviously they'll travel to Hangingham on Saturday and then to Nashua South on Monday and then we'll host Long Meadow next Wednesday. We see a flag down here as we approach the last minute and a half. The next three for exit, they'll host all at home. Conquered followed by Ricka Memorial and then Bishop Girtton for them next Wednesday. So, uh, few few tough games here early schedule for both teams. Really trying to get out, test themselves, make sure that they have all of their ducks in a row as they approach this division one schedule for the rest of the season. Matthews just going to take a run all

110the way around the offensive end. Finally gets rid of it. Here's Bryce Derso. Last minute of play. There is a flag down. Coach Godro is just going to want him to run in circles here. It is a penalty for offside. Derso just throws it away. Possession gained there by Jackson Luranganger. Langer. Langer. Langer. We're going to go with Langer. I've said it wrong about six times. Again, I apologize for the people in exit and for Jackson's family. My bad. The junior defender has done well this evening. Several ground balls picks one up here and Jackson Langer will get the whistle blown. Looks like the wind is picking up out there with jerseys fluttering a little bit. 45° on the way over this evening. That's football weather, isn't it? Yeah. It's lacrosse weather. Sure. Helton. Wide

111left. 28 seconds to go. Brings me back to times in upstate New York doing snow angels literally in the in our lacrosse gear to embrace the cold. Yeah. I'm not sure how many snow angels I've seen with lacrosse sticks in their hands, but either way, it's fine. It works out. We were a sight, Cory. We were a sight. I I can only imagine. I can only imagine. 10 seconds to go here. Penalty is released and that'll just about do it. The Bulldogs will take home victory. 168 your final score. They move to 2 and 0. Extra goes to one and one. Great job here by the Bulldogs getting through some early sloppiness. They pop out to a fivegoal lead and ride that throughout the rest of the game. Jay, I appreciate you joining me as

112always here in the booth. Very much as we've had an enjoyable time over the years. We have a few more lacrosse games coming up the rest of this season. I think three or four more broadcast. We want to say thank you to Andrew Fen back in the studio providing replay assistance as well as getting that uh great pizza throw in Fenway Park. That was a highlight tonight for me. Bill Jennings on camera this evening for the whole crew. Jay Abadrath. I'm Cory Monster Tiger for BCTV. We appreciate you joining this broadcast. We'll see you next time. Love it. Careful. [Music] Wow.