Saturday victories by
Audi and Tonkawa force shootout in Joe Barry Cup
By Alex Webbe
Audi (Marc Ganzi, Nic Roldan, Freddie Mannix and Lucas
Lalor) handed CT Energia (Alessandro Bazzoni, Kris Kampsen, Joao Paulo Ganon
and Nick Manifold) their third loss in as many games, 12-9, to force a Monday
morning shootout tiebreaker between Audi, Lucchese and Tonkawa to determine the
playoff picture for the 2015 Joe Barry Memorial Cup.
Brazilian 7-goaler Joao Ganon converted a 30-yard penalty
shot in the opening forty seconds of play for the first goal of the game to
give CT Energia the early lead, 1-0. Nic
Roldan answered with a goal from the field for Audi just a minute later. Roldan followed it up with a 200-yard solo
run, hitting the post with the shot at goal.
A trailing Fred Mannix tapped it in for the 2-1 lead. Roldan converted a penalty shot that had Audi
in the lead, 3-2. Consecutive penalty goals
from Ganon (closed out the chukker with Audi trailing 4-3.
Audi took control of the game in the second period as they shut
down the CT Energia offense and added four goals for the 7-4 lead. Roldan scored on a 40-yard penalty shot to
open the chukker,4-4. Two minutes later Mannix
gave Audi the 5-4 lead with a goal from the field. Lucas Lalor scored on a 30-yard foul shot, 6-4
at the 3:21 mark and Mannix backhanded a pass from Roldan from 20-yards out for
the 7-4 advantage.
CT Energia fought to get back into the game in the third
chukker with goals from Ganon and Kris Kampsen (penalty goal). This time it was the Audi attack that was
shutout as CT Energia left the field at the end of the first half trailing by a
single goal, 7-6.
The momentum shifted again in the fourth period as Audi put
up three goals while CT Energia was held scoreless. Single
goals from Marc Ganzi, Mannix and Roldan went unanswered as Audi rode off the field
with a 10-6 lead with two chukkers left in
the game.
Ganon converted a 40-yard penalty shot for a goal to open
the fifth followed by a 240 yard run down the field by Roldan for a goal a minute
later, 11-7. A rarely awarded Penalty 1 went
to CT Energia, giving them a goal and cutting the lead down to three goals,
11-8.
CT Energia struggled on offense in the final minutes of the
game. A shot on goal by Kampsen hit the goal post with 2:28 left in the game. Alessandro Bazzoni tapped it in for a goal, 11-9. A resolute Audi defense was bolstered by a
final goal from Roldan for the 12-9 win.
Roldan led the Audi offense with six goals (two on penalty
conversions). Mannix scored four time
while Ganzi and Lalor each added a goal.
Five of Ganon’s six CT Energia
goals came on penalty shots. Bazzoni
scored twice and Kampsen scored one goal in the loss.
Tonkawa 10, Lucchese
9 OT
Lucchese (John Muse, Andres Weisz, Magoo Laprida and Nico
Pieres) edged Tonkawa (Jeff Hildebrand, Gonzalo Deltour, Inaki Laprida and Jeff
Blake) in the first half of play in the opening Joe Barry Memorial Cup game of the day,5-4, but
Tonkawa bounced back. Lucchese needed four goals in the final chukker to tie
Tonkawa and force the sudden-death overtime that had Tonkawa riding off with
the 10-9 victory.
Magoo Laprida scored
the first goal of the game and only goal of the opening chukker for the 1-0 Lucchese
lead as both teams struggled to coordinate effective attacks.
Inaki Laprida scored for Tonkawa to tie it at 1-1 in the
opening minutes of the second period with older brother Magoo Laprida scoring
his second goal of the game for a 2-1 Lucchese advantage. Andres Weisz added
another Lucchese goal at the 1:41 mark followed by a beautifully executed nearside
back shot from Inaki Laprida with just 25 seconds on the clock. Lucchese continued to lead by a single goal,
3-2.
Magoo Laprida and Gonzalo Deltour traded goals in the
opening minutes of the third chukker, 4-3.
Nico Pieres converted a 40-yard penalty shot for a goal as Lucchese
moved out to a 5-3 lead. Deltour scored the final goal of the chukker, 5-4,
with just 1:28 left on the clock. The
Lucchese lead continued to hold but Tonkawa wasn’t giving up as the first half
ended.
Tonkawa turned the tables on Lucchese in second half play,
taking control of the fourth period. A disciplined defense kept Lucchese off of
the scoreboard while Tonkawa’s Inaki Laprida added two more goals. It must be mentioned that Lucchese kept
Tonkawa from scoring until the final two minutes with Inaki Laprida converting
a 30-yard penalty shot for a goal and adding a goal from the field with three seconds
left in the chukker. The lead had
switched hands and the fourth period ended with Tonkawa in control with a 6-5 lead.
Tonkawa continued to control the game in the fifth. A swarming defense held Lucchese scoreless
for the second consecutive period. Laprida
scored for Tonkawa in the opening seconds of the period on an impressively
executed cut shot that traveled over one hundred yards, splitting the goalposts
for a 7-5 lead. Deltour added a goal
from the field as Lucchese fell behind by three goals,8-5.
Pieres finally
started to click in the sixth chukker, scoring twice from the field and once on
a penalty shot. Magoo Laprida scored the other Lucchese goal of the chukker with
Deltour adding a solo goal for Tonkawa.
At the end of regulation play the score was all even at 9-9.
After a brief intermission, both teams returned to the field. Each side had a scoring opportunity go awry
before a costly Lucchese foul sent Deltour to the penalty line where he
converted a 30-yard shot for the winning goal, 10-9.
Deltour and Inaki Laprida scored five goals apiece for
Tonkawa. Magoo Laprida and Pieres each
scored four times for Lucchese, with Weisz adding a single goal in the loss.