LAKERS LOSE TO BROOKLIN

By Anna Taylor
Photo Credit: David Pickering

The Peterborough Century 21 Lakers fell to third place in the MSL standings Thursday night with a 13-9 loss to the Brooklin Lacrosse Club at the Memorial Centre.

 

Their record stands at 7-2, exactly halfway through their regular season schedule.

 

Peterborough led 3-2 after the first period and 4-2 one minute into the second, but Brooklin found a second gear and rattled off six goals in a row for an 8-4 lead after 40 minutes. 

 

That’s when “it got a little ugly,” said Adam Thistlethwaite. “It got away from us there.”

 

The teams combined for 140 penalty minutes including eight majors and six misconducts including numerous stoppages in play. Thomas Hoggarth fought Darryl Robertson in the third period and will face an automatic one-game suspension.

 

“I’ll give Hoggarth a shoutout there,” said Thistlethwaite, who had a front row seat to the tilt. “He’s an [offensive] guy, he just got grabbed there in the corner. That’s unacceptable, but he’s a big guy, he handled himself, got his arm free and started feeding him uppercuts. Guy ended up on his back, head against the boards so I think he regretted taking a grab at Thomas Hoggarth there.”

 

Along with the physical fight, Peterborough showed some emotional fight in the third, tallying five goals after being held scoreless for over 25 minutes. The crowd roared for two consecutive goals off of Jake Withers’ faceoff wins, one he took himself, putting the ball in with a twister, and the other winning to Matt Gilray, who dashed in and went high on Zach Higgins.

 

“We need to stay focused on the end goal,” said Thistlethwaite. “When you see things get messy in the game, you want to support your teammates through those rough spots and help them stay focused on the end goal of the game. You don’t like to see teammates being taken advantage of. We try to score goals for each other, for the city.”

 

The Lakers are on the road Tuesday in Six Nations to face those first place Chiefs. They return to the Memorial Centre next Thursday, June 26 to host the Cobourg Kodiaks on PRHC Night for a Canada Day celebration.

 

Taite Cattoni (1-3)

Joe Resetarits (1-2)

Austin Hasen (1-1)
Jake Withers (1-1)

Mike Robinson (1-1)

Braedon Saris (1-1)

Holden Cattoni (1-1)

Dustyn Birkhof (1-0)

Matt Gilray (1-0)