CAZENOVIA – Just a week into its season,the Cazenovia boys lacrosse team may have already encountered the two sides best positioned to stop a Lakers championship run.
LaFayette arrived last Tuesday afternoon and, in the first match between the two since last year’s Section III Class D final, the Lancers got the best of it, prevailing 12-9 over Cazenovia.
Much of the damage was done in the late going, after a first half where the Lakers controlled the tempo and did enough to battle its way to a 5-4 advantage.
Even with this, it could not build any kind of margin. Sensing this, LaFayette pulled even and then, in the fourth quarter, maanged to outscore the Lakers 6-3 to pull it out.
D.B. Falge had three goals and one assist. Forrest Ives and Brendon Barnard each scored twice, Ives adding a pair of assists as Tom Navin and Alex Kuper had the other goals. Arrow Booth led the Lancers, amassing three goals and four assists.
Turning this around on Thursday afternoon, Cazenovia was dominant against Tully/Fabius-Pompey, prevailing 16-1 as it again got plenty of production from its top line.
Forrest Ives had five goals, with Barnard scoring four times and Falge getting three goals and one assist. Kuper had two goals and three assists. Henry Miller added two assists as he and Basil Sayre notched single goals.
