On a cool breezy night the Boiling Springs lacrosse team winning streak wasn't effected by the weather as they overcame an early deficit on Monday night to defeat Mauldin 10-8 and improve to 3-0 on the season.
"This win changes the entire trajectory of the season," said Bulldogs head coach Justin Mills. "With us being down two starters we had some guys really step up like Ethan Westhall in the faceoff for example where he played amazing." Mauldin took an early 3-0 advantage over the first eight minutes of the game behind three straight goals from attacker Brady Myers. In the last minute of the first quarter the Bulldogs cut into the Mavericks lead with two straight goals that started with a goal from attacker Riley Alfonso when he hit a left handed shot on a cross that found the back of the net after an assist from midfielder Mathias Oslund. Boiling Springs made the first quarter deficit 3-2 with just twenty seconds left in the quarter when attacker Lucas Olson made a run from behind the net before spinning and hitting a shot that found the top right side of the net. Just a minute and a half into the second quarter the Bulldogs Mathias Oslund broke away behind the Mauldin defense and found the bottom of the net to tie the game at 3-3. At the eight minute mark of the second quarter Boiling Springs took their first lead of the game when Chase Miller maneuvered through numerous Mavericks defenders before finding the top left of the net to give the Bulldogs a 4-3 lead. Mauldin tied the game heading into overtime when the Mavericks Brady Myers scored his fourth goal of the game to tie the game at 4-4 with just over three minutes left in the half. "We've never been down much this season so as coaches we didn't mind to see the deficit because we wanted to see how these kids battled," said Mills. "They passed every test for us tonight." The first goal of the second half came at the five minute mark of the third quarter when Myers scored his fifth goal of the game to put Mauldin ahead 5-4.. During a two minute period in the third quarter from the three minute mark to just outside the one minute mark the Bulldogs scored three straight goals to not only tie the game but take a 7-5 lead over the Mavericks. The Bulldogs scoring started with a goal from Mathias Oslund, his second of the game, and was followed by goals from Elijah Smith and Riley Alfonso, which was also his second goal of the game. With twelve seconds left in the quarter Mauldin was able to cut the lead to 7-6 when midfielder Carter Hawkins found the back of the Bulldogs net. Mauldin tried to add another goal just before the quarter came to an end but Bulldogs goalie Jake Lipscomb made a great save to preserve the Bulldogs 7-6 lead. Mauldin tied the game at 7-7 just over a minute into the fourth quarter when midfielder Blake Krause took a deep shot from the right side that found the back of the net. Alfonso gave the Bulldogs an 8-7 lead when he scored his third goal of the game on a jumpshot that found the bottom left of the goal off an assist from Mathias Oslund at the eight minute mark of the game. Blake Krause scored his second goal of the game for Mauldin less than a minute later to tie the game at 8-8 and just over seven minutes remaining in the game. Chase Miller scored his second goal of the game at the five minute mark for the Bulldogs when he scooped up a deflected shot and followed it up with a right handed shot that found the back of the net to give Boiling Springs a 9-8 lead. Miller added to that lead just seconds later off an assist from Lucas Olson to put the Bulldogs ahead 10-8 with four minutes to go in the game. With time running out in the game Mauldin attempted to break down the Bulldogs defense but were unable to find the net thanks in part to two great saves from goalie Jake Lipscomb over the last two minutes of the game. Lipscomb finished the night with 10 saves for the Bulldogs defense and impressed his head coach. "Jake is a stud goalie," said Mills. "We have two goalies on this team that could play for any high school in this state but we went with Jake tonight and he made a lot of saves most goalies wouldn't make." Boiling Springs will now take their undefeated record into region play as they'll travel to Nation Ford on Thursday and Coach Mills is looking forward to the upcoming games for his team. "Our outlook heading into region play is good," said Mills. "We're healthy and have three wins under our belt with a lot of experience for our younger guys. If we can tread water the next few weeks until we get all our starters back we'll be just fine." Comments are closed.
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