BOILING SPRINGS, SC - The Boiling Springs lacrosse team started their second half of region play on Thursday in a home match against Clover where they came away with a 10-9 victory over the Blue Eagles, backing up their win over the same team earlier this season. With the victory the Bulldogs improve their overall record to 6-1 and their region record to 3-1. The victory for the Bulldogs was a hard-fought battle as they had to overcome an early deficit. "This makes two games in a row where we had to battle back," said Bulldogs head coach Justin Mills. "Lacrosse is a game of runs and we spoke to our guys about that at halftime and told them we will get our runs but until then we just needed to keep them at bay. As coaches we're just really proud of the guys." In the first quarter the Bulldogs fell behind early as Clover scored the first three goals of the match to take a 3-0 lead before Mathias Oslund was able to get the Bulldogs on the board to make it 3-1 heading into the second quarter. Elijah Smith had a huge second quarter for the Bulldogs as he outscored Clover 3-2 in the second quarter, scoring every goal for Boiling Springs in the quarter as he made the Blue Eagles lead 5-4 going into halftime. "We were slow coming out of the gate," said Mills. "We had several unfortunate penalties that put us behind the eight ball to start the game." The third quarter saw the Bulldogs outscore the Blue Eagles as Kaden Jenkins came away with a goal and with the Bulldogs still trailing by one, Chase Miller got a goal off an assist from Elijah Smith as time expired in the third quarter to tie the game at 6-6. Micah Horton gave Boiling Springs their first lead at 7-6 to start the fourth quarter as he took the faceoff and ran through multiple Blue Eagles defenders for a shot that found the back of the net. Just eight seconds later Horton won another faceoff that finished with another score from Elijah Smith off an assist from Chase Miller to put the Bulldogs ahead 8-6 over Clover. At the eight-minute mark Elijah Smith scored another goal to put the Bulldogs ahead for good after the two teams had traded goals just prior to the final goal. Elijah Smith led Boiling Springs with six goals and two assists while Matthias Oslund, Kaden Jenkins, Micah Horton, and Chase Miller all had one goal each. Horton also went 18 of 23 at the faceoff position. Boiling Springs will return to action on Saturday when they travel to Chapin for a battle between two teams with 6-1 records. Bulldogs Boys Soccer VictoriousBoiling Springs boys' soccer went on a short road trip to the eastside of Spartanburg on Thursday night where they came away with a 4-0 victory over the host Spartanburg Day School.
Boiling Springs got three goals, or better known as a hat-trick, from Will Poplawski and another goal from Roger Ocampo. The Bulldogs will return to action on Tuesday for their first region match of the season against Gaffney. Comments are closed.
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