‘Canes jump all over Cavs

Boys lacrosse team goes up by 10 in first quarter, 16 at half

Friday, April 21, 2006

Click here to enlarge this photo Photo by Mike Slattery Huntingtown freshman Culver Bradberry, who had two goals in the offensive onslaught, keeps his eye on the ball against Calvert on Tuesday. E-Mail This Article | Print This Story   Huntingtown 21, Calvert 1 Huntingtown 10 6 2 3 Calvert 0 0 1 0 Goals: Huntingtown (Wright 6, Wiese 5, Thompson 2, Baier-Anderson 2, C. Bradbury 2, Buckler, Rice, Jarrett, Strong); Calvert (Cochran) Saves: Huntingtown (Deacon 6); Calvert (Leonard 14)

Huntingtown scored 10 first-quarter goals on its way to a 16-0 lead at halftime and went on to trample host Calvert, 21-1, Tuesday night.

Huntingtown (5-3, 4-2 SMAC) scored two goals within a 29-second span early in the period and never slowed down. The Hurricanes never went more than 2 minutes 2 seconds without a goal through the first quarter.

‘‘Yesterday at practice I told them that our goal today was to get a quick start,” said Goeller, whose team was forced to come from behind to win four of its first seven games. ‘‘We’ve been down at halftime of every game we’ve had this season so our goal was to get a quick start and get better as the game went on and I think we did that.”

‘‘[Huntingtown] had some games over the break and we didn’t,” Calvert coach Brian Dryer said. ‘‘Some of our guys haven’t practiced in a week and it’s really hard to come back into a tough game like this. They came out ready to play. They were on the field doing what they were supposed to and we were a bit sluggish at the start.”

Huntingtown had nine different goal scorers and produced its biggest offensive output in the two-year-old program’s existence. Curtis Wright scored a team-high six goals while David Wiese had five. Martin Thompson, Kelsey Baier-Anderson and Culver Bradbury each had two goals while Joshua Buckler, David Rice, Kyle Jarrett and Bryant Strong each had one. Baier-Anderson and Wiese also added four and three assists, respectively.

‘‘Obviously, when you get everybody in [to the game] that’s going to happen, but that’s what we want to be,” Goeller said of his various goal scorers. ‘‘We want to be a balanced team and that’s what we’ve been focusing on. We’re finally getting to the point of the season where you start playing teams a second time and they know who your goal scorers are. So it’s good that you can count on somebody else to produce.”

‘‘I came here [to Calvert] in ninth grade so I was playing against my friends, but it’s still a pretty big victory,” Wright said. ‘‘It makes the game a little different because they’re your friends so it’s a little more like a friendly game than a hostile one.”

Calvert (0-9, 0-5) picked up its only goal of the game when Kevin Cochran scored his first varsity goal on a fast break early in the third quarter.

‘‘We slid over but our slide wasn’t on point,” Huntingtown sophomore defender Trent Davidson said, ‘‘and the guy got the shot off.”

The goal ruined Huntingtown goalie Matt Deacon’s shutout bid but the junior turned aside six shots.

‘‘The defense did really well,” Goeller said. ‘‘Everybody on defense played and everybody did well. Even with the second line in there they played well and protected Deacon real well.”

‘‘The defense just stayed tight and worked to its full potential and our goalie did a hell of a job and made some great saves,” Davidson said. ‘‘We just know that we have to play the game and work all four quarters. We can’t lay back and rest; we have to hustle.”

Calvert goalie Ethan Leonard stopped 14 shots, 11 of them in the first half, including several from point-blank range.

The Cavaliers, who have been outscored 47-6 the last four games, are still searching for their first win of the season.

‘‘A lot of our guys have stepped up but it’s all a part of growing with the sport,” Dryer said. ‘‘It’s growing pains. We try to find something small to work on each game and build from there.

‘‘A couple of guys really stepped up. Thomas Coffren has been getting better every week. We moved him to midfield [from defense] and we had to drop him back into defense today but he was all over the field.”

Goeller said his team goal is to improve each week.

‘‘Our goal coming into this game is that we wanted to get better,” he said. ‘‘Obviously the SMAC championship is out of our realm now so our goal now is to get better every game and get to the state playoffs.”

Huntingtown had a 39-18 edge in groundballs and every one of Huntingtown’s 23 players had at least one. Wiese led the team with six while Thompson added five. David Rice won 19 of 25 faceoffs and Ira Stavely had a team-high three takeaways.

‘‘Every groundball is a possession and every time you have a possession there’s a chance for a goal,” Goeller said, ‘‘so if we have 20 more goal chances than any team we play, that’s a huge thing.”

Dryer said the Cavaliers have been frustrated at times this year but also added that he thought they were capable of winning.

‘‘Some of the frustration they’re taking out because they know they can play better than they are,” he said. ‘‘They know what they want to do and we [coaches] know they can do it but they’re just not physically there at all times. It’s like when you go out to your car in the morning and you know it’s going to start but one day it doesn’t.”

E-mail Michael Reid at mreid@somdnews.com.